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We asked, you told us: Most of you plan to buy a new phone next year
July 03, 2025
People don’t seem to be in a rush to get the latest and greatest smartphones, withour own surveylast month showing that 60% of polled readers have a phone that came out in 2019 or earlier.
But now that we’re winding down the year, we wanted to know how many readers think they’ll upgrade to a new phone in 2022. We posted this survey last week and it got quite the response.
Do you plan to buy a new phone in 2022?
Over 6,500 votes were tallied in this poll, making it one of the more popular surveys this month. It turns out that over 60% of respondents plan to buy a new phone in 2022, making for quite a big figure.
Interestingly, several reader comments point to the Galaxy S22 series as being the phone they’ll buy in 2022. But we also saw one reader saying they’ll buy a 2021 flagship at a lower price in 2022. That’s always a smart strategy, especially if you’re going the Samsung and Google route with their longer update commitments.
Meanwhile, ~23.3% of polled readers said they weren’t planning to buy a new phone next year. Supporting comments suggest that readers are either happy with their current phones, or feel that modern devices are taking a step backward by not supporting features like microSD expansion or 3.5mm ports. We even see a few readers who just bought a phone in 2021 anyway and therefore don’t see a need to upgrade in 2022.
Finally, almost 15% of polled readers say they’ll wait and see how 2022 unfolds before making a decision to upgrade. This is an understandable approach, as we don’t actually know what many companies have up their sleeves for next year.
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