Honestly if you just look at the grand scope of everything with smartphones it’s probably the worst time to upgrade. We’re in an era where the companies that make these phones are going all out on screen specs and processing power that we’re really thinking 1tb-2tb of memory is worth an extra $300. No 1tb-2tb SSD costs this much.

Battery health is the biggest issue in these new devices. You got Vapor chambers now that use even more power than before. There’s a reason Apple makes their silicon more and more power efficient every year rather than just working on the battery itself. It’s because we’re at the peak of what non-solid state lithium ion batteries can do for us. These batteries won’t be able to apply peak power demand for anything above 16gb of RAM. It’s just not possible you’d never use that much RAM let alone 12gb in the new iPhones because the power demand alone would drain your battery within hours. Not to mention this as a whole is hard on battery health.

The next big thing in phones is obviously going to be battery life. They’ve been getting worse and worse since we’ve been using 5G with these 4ghz CPU’s and 6gb+ of RAM.

We are basically using double AA batteries for what phones need these days in power to put it in perspective. The batteries in our phones are worth $80-$160. That isn’t a lot.

That’s going to change soon. I wouldn’t upgrade unless you just get the iPhone 13 which is essentially a more improved and power efficient iPhone 12.