@Naepalm wrote:Specs on it look respectable and android 10 out of the box. hmmm.
How long do budget phone last usually?
Depends on the model, of course.
Budget phones are designed around a price point. So usually tech one or two generations behind plus one or two bolt-on Impressive Hardware Features like Huge Screen, Great Camera, or High Grade Music/Audio. The Impressive Hardware Feature(s) tend(s) to suck the battery dry pretty quick, and Big Screen means Big Form Factor with Big Battery ... but it tends to be something "cheap" with low energy density so about a year before it rapidly loses ability to hold much charge.
I've used a bottom-end SKY, a bottom-end RCA, and a bottom-end Huawei. All of them had clunky software and bloat. All of them ended up refusing to hold charge for more than half a day of idle after about a year. All of them promised 16GB (or whatever) of storage but in actuality started to complain and malfunction after less than a few GB were actually filled up.
I think the trick is to only buy the low-end when you urgently need a cheap working phone right away, but then plan on getting something better within a few months. If you hang onto these things too long they're just going to frustrate and junk out on you when you need them most. (I only bought them when I needed a "temporary" "disposable" sort of phone which I expected would get destroyed at heavy industrial job sites, lol, but alas it seems I've become too careful with them so they actually don't get abused and wrecked as quickly as expected.)
