Yeah my strategy has been to wait a year after the new cell model has come out. Usually you can get the same model the following year BOGO, Buy One Get One Free. That’s the way I got my S7 Edge. One for me and one for my wife.
Yeah, I’m pretty rough on phones
My last phone the Note 5 wasn’t doing what I wanted so I turned it into a fastball right against the concrete wall
Went down and picked up a j7 for a hundred and twenty bucks did exactly the same thing for a whole hell of a lot less money
But didn’t have some features that were nice to haves
Put the S9 in a three or four hundred dollar category I’m in