<story><title>US Smartphone Shipments Decline 19% in Q3 2023 as More Americans Delay Upgrade</title><url>https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/us-smartphone-shipments-decline-19-yoy-in-q3-2023-as-more-americans-delay-smartphone-upgrade/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hard to feel positive about upgrading my phone when every new phone seems to remove things I want while adding stuff I don&amp;#x27;t care about.&lt;p&gt;My S10e is a reasonable size in my pocket. It has a headphone jack. It has an SD card slot. Any new Samsung phone I buy will be missing these things, and I&amp;#x27;ll be forced to pay hundreds of dollars extra to increase the on-board storage that will still be far less than the 512GB sd card I&amp;#x27;ve currently got in there.&lt;p&gt;And I could try switching away from Samsung, but then I risk losing even more features I take to be standard, like wireless charging.&lt;p&gt;The phone still works just fine, it&amp;#x27;s fast enough for my needs (although the battery is certainly worse than when I got it). I would be more than happy to pay like $100&amp;#x2F;yr for &amp;quot;extended&amp;quot; support on it to still get repairs and security patches, rather than having to chuck it in the bin.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>parl_match</author><text>I have an iPhone 13 mini, the last &amp;lt;5&amp;quot; flagship phone you can buy. I&amp;#x27;m not particularly tied to the iPhone ecosystem, but when this dies, I don&amp;#x27;t know what I&amp;#x27;m going to do.</text></comment>
<story><title>US Smartphone Shipments Decline 19% in Q3 2023 as More Americans Delay Upgrade</title><url>https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insights/us-smartphone-shipments-decline-19-yoy-in-q3-2023-as-more-americans-delay-smartphone-upgrade/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>AdmiralAsshat</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s hard to feel positive about upgrading my phone when every new phone seems to remove things I want while adding stuff I don&amp;#x27;t care about.&lt;p&gt;My S10e is a reasonable size in my pocket. It has a headphone jack. It has an SD card slot. Any new Samsung phone I buy will be missing these things, and I&amp;#x27;ll be forced to pay hundreds of dollars extra to increase the on-board storage that will still be far less than the 512GB sd card I&amp;#x27;ve currently got in there.&lt;p&gt;And I could try switching away from Samsung, but then I risk losing even more features I take to be standard, like wireless charging.&lt;p&gt;The phone still works just fine, it&amp;#x27;s fast enough for my needs (although the battery is certainly worse than when I got it). I would be more than happy to pay like $100&amp;#x2F;yr for &amp;quot;extended&amp;quot; support on it to still get repairs and security patches, rather than having to chuck it in the bin.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcosdumay</author><text>Oh, I didn&amp;#x27;t even notice why I keep postponing upgrading my out-of-line phone that can&amp;#x27;t even get new software from the play store anymore. But yeah, it&amp;#x27;s because I dread of looking around trying to decide what I&amp;#x27;ll give up to get a headphone jack.</text></comment>