The Asus Zenfone 3 Zoom should get you through a standard
smartphone upgrade cycle, which is two years.
The reason behind LG's decision to step off the yearly flagship
smartphone upgrade cycle and take a more measured approach has become clear, with the company announcing its Q4 2017 financial results today.
Not exact matches
If we assume a 2 - year average
upgrade cycle for
smartphones and growth trends remain the same, the global
smartphone installed base will grow from 2.2 billion in 2014 to about 4.2 billion by the end of 2017, according to our estimates.
Analyst firms have previously attributed the spiraling tablet market to factors like the rise of oversized
smartphones known as phablets, a lack of innovative products, and longer
upgrade cycles for consumers, if they
upgrade at all.
E-Readers are for the most part, immune to the same sort of
upgrade cycle we see with
smartphones and tablets.
The latest one says the Motorola X
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A longer
upgrade cycle will also hurt shipments, since many consumers prefer to spend their money on new
smartphones or laptops instead of tablets, which are mainly used for social networking, web browsing, and other lightweight applications that don't require a better processor every year.
Unlike
smartphones, tablet owners may hold on to their devices longer and may not follow the annual or bi-annual
upgrade cycles.
With the introduction of the iPad, nobody was sure how often users would want to
upgrade their tablets — would the pattern be closer to a
smartphone or an elongated
cycle, more reminiscent of laptop usage
cycles?
It should come as no surprise to OnePlus fans that we're hearing more details on their next
smartphone model, the OnePlus 6; after all, the company is almost literally on a six - month update
cycle with its subsequent «T»
upgrades.
Tablet sales aren't in the doldrums, exactly, but their growth has evaporated in the face of a range of factors, from bigger
smartphones to longer - than - expected
upgrade cycles.
Apple releases a new flagship iPhone every year, with an «S»
upgrade cycle in between each major redesign of the high - end
smartphone.
With its latest 4.7 - inch and 5.5 - inch iPhone models, Apple is for the first time launching two new
smartphone form factors simultaneously, broadening the usual
upgrade cycle choices beyond storage capacity and color.
The iPhone 6/6 Plus
cycle was the biggest
smartphone cycle in history, and tens of millions of people now have 2 - year - old phones that need to be
upgraded.