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How Often do you Upgrade Your Phone?

Shubham Gupta, Founder & Chief Editor of TechQuark.com | George Hashim, Chief Strategy Officer @ CompAsia

03-Sep-19 12:00

How Often do you Upgrade Your Phone?

At its event next week Apple is expected to announce three new phones, launching in time for the holiday season. However, research is showing that people are holding onto their phones for an average of 33 months. That’s up from 27.5 months in 2018. People just aren’t upgrading as often as they used to. But why?

Produced by: Christine Wong

Presented by: Richard Bradbury, Audrey Raj, & Arvindh Yuvaraj


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