nice username lol.
fuck all apple products they’re so goddamn shit.
thanks lmao
i got an iphone 7 when my last phone broke a year ago and the phone is super fucking slow from their updates. apple is a particularly shitty company.
Under communism all phones will be those cool modular ones that were a thing in like 2015
remember when you could actually replace the battery in your phone without having to use a bunch of specialty tools or go to a shop? we really didn’t know how good we had it.
I’d love to see phones transformed into a platform of components that can be swapped, repaired, and maintained individually rather than having to toss the whole phone if one little piece of it breaks.
there was a company/group that attempted that but of course it got no traction because it’s necessary that we spend 800-2k on new phone every year even though they barely change from year to year.
For a brief moment in time, there was Project Ara which never launched, because what you said. Fucking capitalism.
could be. I dont remember much I just saw it on a kickstarter somewhere at some point and thought “that’d be cool if only there weren’t serious pressures from tech companies to do the exact opposite.”
I mean they are if you have the tools and knowledge. Street vendors in Shenzhen will upgrade your iPhone’s memory infront of you and update the OS accordingly.
That’s not a platform though - I mean a system of design and physical standards so that the average person could disconnect a component with nothing more than a phillips head screwdriver. Something that brings that minimum knowledge bar low enough for average people. Getting those tiny NAND memory modules to resolder correctly is fucking hard, even for folks who work on electronics for a living, and requires a fuck load of specialized hardware
My Android got hella slow and I’m convinced it’s planned obsolescence. Will rooting it fix it?
I’m replacing my 5 year old phone this month and I’m honestly so sad about it. The only real problem with it is that the battery runs down asap and the memory is low (32gb) for the amount of videos and pics people send me nowadays. I got this phone right around when mainstream phones stopped having easily opened backs and microSD card slots and I’m still seething over it
Haha too late, I already ordered a new one the other day (a OnePlus 8t) :') Tbh I’m intimidated by the thought of doing something myself and I live in a small city in a small country, where finding someone to do it for me is complicated. I’ll see how the OnePlus is, I’ve wanted to try one of the Chinese phones for a while now
get phones with huge batteries in it. i dont have a replaceable one on mine but it had the largest battery of any smartphone at the time for around 100 dollars. its lasted me 9 years and im thinking of replacing it soon because its battery life is only 6 hours now (lol, when i first got it i could use it on and off for a week and have 50% charge left on it). also get wireless charging the biggest reason why im replacing my phone is i have eroded the microusb connector through constant unplugging and replugging, i think wireless charging will extend the longevity of batteries and connectors quite handily.
(lol, when i first got it i could use it on and off for a week and have 50% charge left on it)
Holy shit, jealous.
I’ve heard mixed things about wireless charging - like some people say it actually damages the battery more? But I’m not great at keeping up with tech developments, idk if they’ve fixed that/it only applies to specific phones
