Re: Upgrade and pay more for less

Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:

On 4 Dec 2024 11:27:20 GMT, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
wrote:
 

Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> wrote:
[...]
 

My current phone has 16GB storage, according to the specs, and a 16GB
SD card.
 
It keeps telling me that it's getting full.
 
I'm offered an "upgrade" of a phone with 4GB of storage for 2.5 times
the price.

 
I'm sure the 4GB is *RAM*, i.e. main memory (volatile 'storage') not
Internal Storage (permanent, non-volatile storage)!
 
So you're comparing apples with oranges.
 
Your current phone has 1GB RAM, so the upgrade has *4 times* that. So
you pay more to get more, not less.

 
Thank you. That is the kind of information I was looking for. The
information in the catalogue is very sketchy.
 

See the "Memory and storage" section of your reference:
 
<https://www.phonemore.com/specs/samsung/galaxy-a2-core/sm-a260f/>
 
Anyway, post a link to the specs and price of the "upgrade" so we know
what we're talking about.

 
This one is just double the price of my present phone:
 
<https://www.gsmarena.com/realme_note_50-12799.php>

If you look closely it says it's available with 64/128/256 GB of storage.
At a minimum it has 4x the storage of your current phone.

Unfortunately, it looks like inflation has made things much more expensive
in SA.