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[–] glitching@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago

I mean good for them, but at that price and them specs that's an insanely expensive thing.

seeing as how it's directed at enthusiasts i.e. people who'll fiddle with their phone, I contend that those people are equally likely to pick up an used ex-flagship of some years, flash lineageOS and have at least an equal device at like a tenth of the price.

the repairability - cool, it's better if it's there than not. but, I stress for the intended audience, swapping out batteries and cameras and stuff is perfectly achievable on normal phones. and even if it isn't, $50 gets me an immensely powerful SDM8xx device, so dicking around with replacing parts at that price point is more of a hobby than necessity.

this thing with those specs should cost like $200. engineering efforts should be spent at identifying soon-to-be abandoned models from existing manufacturers and taking over production, not on designing bespoke parts and fucking lanyard covers and whatnot.