• GoodEye8@lemm.ee
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    2 years 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.

  • highduc@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    It wouldn’t hurt to make them standardized somehow, otherwise it might be that you can replace the battery but can’t find one to buy, or if you do it’s more expensive than it’s worth and it motivates you to buy a new phone entirely.

    And +1 vote for the fucking headphone jack. A standard in the audio industry since (looking at wikipedia) for over a century! killed off by Apple (and subsequently everyone else’s) corporate greed.

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      2 years ago

      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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    2 years ago

    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.