I get a new piece of technology about every year.  I don't really need the newest model because the older one still work perfectly fine.  All the resources used to run and make all the advanced technology we have today use up a lot of resources that could be contributed to something greater rather than another phone.  For example all the power lines built all over cities take up the land of our natural environment which is being more tampered with as more technological advances are made.  If I needed to break my addiction with my phone I would delete social media.

The only needs we need from phones are being able to contact others, apart from that, we already have inventions like watches, GPSs, and calculators. Phones are built up so much these days as a pinnacle of technology that it has become a 'need' in the eyes of the customer when it is really a 'want'. And to keep people buying, every time phone companies release a new phone (about a year or so), they slow down other phones so people will have no choice but to buy the new one. It wastes money and materials, creating electronic waste which damages the environment.