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I hate how disposable smartphones are
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well the battery goes bad and has to be thrown out eventually
to combat this problem we've made the battery impossible to remove so that you'll throw out your whole phone with the battery too
I still remember when smartphones had removable batteries
that was only back in 2014, it's not like it's been a de
Oh they still do. Just, you know, there's like a 30% chance of bricking it every time you open it up. : (
Well....if you suck at it. It has gotten way harder over the years and a couple iphones are pretty near impossible without specialized and expensive equipment, though.
I absolutely do suck at it. I've killed at least one phone and one tablet over the years trying to do screen replacements. : ( i haven't killed anything swapping batteries tho.
I got in the game early when things were easy, like 20+ years ago and got better as stuff got harder. Now I'm "the guy" people take their stuff to when it's busted. Diving right in these days would have a harder learning curve, for sure.
My phone still does. It's just been like 5 years since the automatic updates on the built in apps completely filled up my tiny built in memory
The Fairphone exists, which is (supposedly) pretty easily repairable. You're definitely gonna pay a price premium on it tho and the hardware isn't exactly latest. Might consider it for my next phone.
Eh I got it recommended by a comrade who seemed knowledgable about it, but I kinda regret it. It's expensive and, even if the parts are replaceable, the phone is slow and underperforming enough that it'll still just need replaced within 5 years due to software requirements from everything around it.
Literally cheaper and just as little (or less) impact in continuously buying used flagship phones from 4 years ago.
That comrade is a bit of a lib so I should've seen it coming. Of course I'm a lib so I didn't.
Yeah that's kind of what I was afraid of. Maybe they'll step up with the hardware on the next revision.