Clinging to Obsolete Cellphones

138 views · Published 27 March 2012 · 3:52 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: The Wall Street Journal · 2012 · News & Politics

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While most consumers rush to get new smartphones every 12 to 17 months, a few holdouts cling to obsolete cellphones and other tech gear that is four, six or even eight years out-of-date. As Sue Shellenbarger explains on Lunch Break, while some of their reasons are predictable -- saving money, reducing castoffs' harm to the environment and resisting marketers' pressure to buy "the latest and greatest" -- others are more surprising. 
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