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Re:People are keeping their cell phones a lot longer by bradvl on Thursday November 02, 2017 @05:34AM (#15608951)
I'm hanging on to the old 6S until Apple bring back the headphone jack...
Re:People are keeping their cell phones a lot longer by M4v3R on Thursday November 02, 2017 @06:16AM (#15609112)
Well, you’ll probably have to hang on to it for a long time then, because Apple will not bring the headphone jack back. They never did that before for any port/hardware feature they removed afaik.
Re:People are keeping their cell phones a lot longer by josteink on Thursday November 02, 2017 @09:06AM (#15610019)
> Well, you’ll probably have to hang on to it for a long time then, because Apple will not bring the headphone jack back.

In the meantime the iPhone SE is a good phone, has a good form-factor and still has a headphone jack.

Re:People are keeping their cell phones a lot longer by metilda on Thursday November 02, 2017 @07:38AM (#15609441)
Yeah, its akin to holding out for wireless charging on a Pixel. Its dead and not gonna come back :c
Re:People are keeping their cell phones a lot longer by thehoff on Thursday November 02, 2017 @09:49AM (#15610355)
I was going to hold onto mine for another year at least but the camera doesn't seem to work as of two weeks ago. I held out for 11.1 hoping it was a weird bug but that didn't do it. Must be hardware. Camera won't focus half the time and in video it won't stabilize at all.
Re:People are keeping their cell phones a lot longer by Fjolsvith on Thursday November 02, 2017 @11:09PM (#15616414)
I still use a Samsung S5 because of it's two radios - I can talk on a phone call and browse/charge a credit card/etc. at the same time.

The Camera on it started acting flaky about two weeks ago and it stopped getting pictures stored intact. So, I finally found a new open source camera app and it works perfect again. The default camera app seems to be buggy.

I wonder if a system update was engineered to 'encourage' a phone upgrade...