• GoodEye8@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Good, the biggest reason I have to buy a new phone is the battery effectively dying. I’ve already decided that when my current phone needs to be charged at least twice a day then I’m buying a phone with replaceable parts, something like Fairphone. From experience my phone has at least 2, maybe even 3, years left so maybe by that time I have a lot more options to choose from.

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      Loss of headphone jacks was the worst change for me. I’ve never had a problem with batteries. My phones have become obsolete due to software updates that brick them or because the hardware can’t get the latest security updates and I don’t want to take the risk. A power button went on one phone (Google Nexus something or other) because LG(?) installed a weak plastic rocker and made it unreplaceable. Absolutely nothing else wrong with it but it was just out of warranty.

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    This is great news, but I hope they also take steps to incentivise manufacturers to actually sell the batteries. Sure, you can get them on ebay, but the quality is variable.

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    1 year ago

    It’s always been absolutely crazy to me that a normally easy to replace part that has a known short lifespan would be moved deep in the bowels of the phone where you can’t get to it.

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        1 year ago

        I knew someone was gonna say that but of course I want it to be thin when I have it in my pocket the whole day. I have a case on my phone that makes it thicker and you can already kinda see it through my pants which doesn’t really look good

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          Phones haven’t been thin since manufacturers started to stick half an inch of lens of two or more too many cameras on the back. With some clever engineering, phones wouldn’t have to get that much thicker. They could just smooth off the back and shuffle the components.

          They wouldn’t need cases so much if they were (a) made properly and (b) made repairable, either, but that’s another uphill battle.

          While I’m moaning, can I also complain about shitty glass screen protectors that add another couple of mil to the thickness and break constantly. Never had a screen crack while using a thinner plastic screen cover but they’re almost impossible to find nowadays.