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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
When everyone eventually switched to a smartphone (2013), we were swapping upgrade eligibility so two people got the latest model, the other two got the 1-year old iPhones and two phones were retired. Sometimes, the wait for those on the 1+ year old device became excruciating (battery getting fully discharged after one phone call, etc). 
Gotta say, despite the pain in the wallet, upgrading iPhones (and even Android to a certain extent) is so much easier than upgrading feature phones. My mom had 500 contacts on her cellphones and given SIM cards were limited to like 100 contacts or something, getting those transferred in batches (or via manual entry) to her new phone was a major pain. Of course, being the resident techie, I'm the one tasked with that job. |
I still remember the days before smartphones when nearly every cellular phone brand used its own proprietary OS, almost no phones could be connected to computers for programming, and you had to manually input the contacts and other data. When you got a new phone it took several hours to enter contacts using a numbered keypad. The stuff of nightmares these days!
ETA: And almost all of the charger/power cables were proprietary too!