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Update 2020-11-12: [[id:2020-11-12-smartphone-price-stats][This article holds the numbers for 2020-11]]

A few facts on the history of my Android smartphones so far are
summarized in the following table (neglecting inflation):

| Smartphone | From             | Cost | Years | €/Month | Notes                   |
|------------+------------------+------+-------+---------+-------------------------|
| [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Htc_magic][HTC Magic]]  | [2009-12-04 Fri] |  230 |   1.5 |   13.00 | 2nd hand price          |
| [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Desire][HTC Desire]] | [2011-05-26 Thu] |  410 |   2.4 |   14.01 |                         |
| [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_5][Nexus 5]]    | [2013-11-01 Fri] |  399 |   3.8 |    8.67 |                         |
| [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnePlus_5][OnePlus 5]]  | [2017-09-01 Fri] |  200 |   2.1 |    7.77 | company co-funded       |
|            | [2019-10-24 Thu] |      |       |         | If I'd replace it today |
#+TBLFM: $4=(date(<@+1$2>)-date(<$2>))/30.42/12;%.1f ::$5=$3/((date(<@+1$2>)-date(<$2>))/30.42);%.2f

Out of curiosity, I played with the numbers.

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On average, I was using a smartphone for thirty months which represent
2½ years. In total, I have invested 1239 Euros in my smartphones and
I've used them for 3610 days (119 months or 9.9 years). Overall, this
means that I had to pay 10.44 Euros per month of smartphone usage.
Just for the hardware.

A new top-of-the-range smartphone for 750€ (like the new [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_4][Pixel 4]])
needs to be used for 71 months which means six years in order to keep
the average price per month at the same level.

This is unrealisic in my opinion. I guess that modern smartphones do
have a tendency to be replaced in less than 2½ years on average.
Certainly less than six years. Therefore, the price per smartphone per
month is going to rise for me, when I'd buy an up-to-date high-end
device.

In order to keep these numbers to a sane level, I may be looking for
used top-model devices, eight to twelve months old - in case there is
a good market for these devices. Or [[id:2019-07-09-hire-me][my future employer]] co-funds a new
smartphone I may use for business as well as private purpose.