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knoegel t1_ja1kncn wrote

It has a shit cpu that won't be good for 1 year.

They need to make a repairable flagship device.

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RickestRickSea137 t1_ja1sp0v wrote

hardware good for 5 years

OS updates for 3 years

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soo

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usable lifetime: 3 years

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come on. fucking support your products. its no good if theres all sorts of future hacks which you won't be protected against during a reasonable ownership period. it's almost lying to misrepresent hardware support for 5 years.

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enV2022 t1_ja1tkru wrote

Does it offer an external storage feature? If not, it is inevitable it will run out of space since updates for anything will eventually clog it up. Switching ships here but I absolutely love my iPad but that’s how Apple ensures you’ll move on to a newer one eventually. Whether it’s system updates or just your favorite apps, eventually you’ll run out of space.

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zBarba t1_ja2feta wrote

Fairphone totally beats this on repairability and software updates

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winterbird t1_ja2gas8 wrote

Exactly, this is the issue. My last phone had absolutely nothing wrong with it. Except that there came a point that there were no further updates for it, and apps were pulling themselves from its last point of update. It became a brick by smartphone standards. I could call, text, and use the browser. But no other apps. When I tried to open them I'd get a message my phone isn't supported anymore. It had been 5-6 years since the phone was released at that point. I take care of my stuff, it still looked new and nothing was broken on it.

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RickestRickSea137 t1_ja2ta8w wrote

Same here.. 5 yo Samsung Android phone, they decided to stop OS updates for it right around the time 2 bad CVE's hit the news.

Perfectly functional, nothing broken or even scratched phone rendered useless.

Fuck you Samsung, never again.

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jncc t1_ja2yjrm wrote

The problem is that after you repair it, you still have an android phone.

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janeuner t1_ja369wq wrote

When you buy a cell phone, you are better off thinking about it as a fixed term support contact, and not as a hardware purchase. One version of the hardware costs less than two Android major version updates and thirty security updates.

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ToddRossDIY t1_ja3ejiq wrote

Apple is seriously the only option I think at this point. After my last flagship android phone made by Motorola (owned by Google at the time) stopped getting security updates after barely 2 years, I got an iPhone and never looked back. I was adamantly against apple products for the decade prior that I’ve owned a smartphone, but they’re the only ones taking software updates seriously

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chunky-guac t1_ja4z2ba wrote

My Nokia smartphone was the worst phone I've ever had. I've never had a phone for less than a year until I got that one, but after six months I just couldn't deal with the constant lagging and crashes. My Motorola wasn't much more expensive and perform much better

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Savinien83 t1_ja4zmig wrote

I started with Fairphone 2. Painful experience, there were a lot of problem. Uograded to Fairphone 3: problem solved, work like a charm. Don't plan to upgrade to 4 before a few years. Already dropped it in my bath, easily replaced the mic module.

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UNKNOWN_NAME710 t1_ja5g2hu wrote

The Internal of the phone is just like a Samsung A03s, The exterior as well just with Nokia.

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just_here_for_SFW t1_ja90r17 wrote

It was intimidating the first time because the instructions say it can brick your phone, but to be honest it was pretty easy. Basically it's just copy paste the instructions in a command line tool. What is nice is there is updates weekly, so security patches are up to date. Those are click and forget from within the phone (like normal updates) and just version updates require the command-line again, but the second time it's way less nerveracking!

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