ABC Melbourne Drive: phone season

New phones are on the way, but is it a good time to buy? Find out why waiting could be the best option given what’s coming.

New phones are on the way, but is it a good time to buy? Find out why waiting could be the best option given what’s coming.

Between the Telstra outage last week and a bunch of rumblings in the mobile world, you’d be forgiven for thinking that now was the right time to upgrade your mobile.

It’s not, though. The next few months is, but not now. Why is that, and how do we know roughly when the right time to buy a phone will be?

This week on ABC Melbourne Drive, get an understanding to why your friendly neighbourhood technology journalist might want to suggest waiting is best, and also get a bunch of your tech questions answered live on the air.

Check out ABC Melbourne Drive with Charlie Pickering from July 14, 2026 to hear it all, kicking off from just after the 1 hour 35 minute mark (or 1.35.24 if you need an absolutely precise timecode).