Just looking for opinions, based perhaps on experience.
How log would you expect a reasonably decent phone to last these days?
The reason I was is my Samsung S5 mini has started playing up. It's only had about 1 year of use, and not heave usage, just normal half a dozen or so calls a day, taking the odd picture and occasional 'online' use while out & about. Always in a case & no hard drops.
After a year of relatively trouble-free use, the past few days it's been a pain in the wotsit. Freezing when someone calls- battery out job. Not the auto-rotate doesn't work and the automatic brightness feature has become intermittent.
TBH, it's never been my favourite phone, but I'm not one for replacing my phone for the sake of it. But with three quite separate things going wrong in as many days I am left wondering if it's par for the course these days. I will undoubtedly try a few resets etc. if it keeps playing up.
But for the best part of £300, I'd have expected it to last a bit longer than the warranty period. If it does end up going the journey, I will certainly miss the excellent bright display.
How log would you expect a reasonably decent phone to last these days?
The reason I was is my Samsung S5 mini has started playing up. It's only had about 1 year of use, and not heave usage, just normal half a dozen or so calls a day, taking the odd picture and occasional 'online' use while out & about. Always in a case & no hard drops.
After a year of relatively trouble-free use, the past few days it's been a pain in the wotsit. Freezing when someone calls- battery out job. Not the auto-rotate doesn't work and the automatic brightness feature has become intermittent.
TBH, it's never been my favourite phone, but I'm not one for replacing my phone for the sake of it. But with three quite separate things going wrong in as many days I am left wondering if it's par for the course these days. I will undoubtedly try a few resets etc. if it keeps playing up.
But for the best part of £300, I'd have expected it to last a bit longer than the warranty period. If it does end up going the journey, I will certainly miss the excellent bright display.