Oh, it's not the battery that'll shorten the lifespan of the 5X and the 6P. It's the CPU. I've already had to replace my 5X under warranty twice. The second time was because of the bootloop problem, which will happen to every single device equipped with the Snapdragon 808 eventually.

My phone is basically living on borrowed time. And honestly, the next time it dies, I'm done with high-end devices. Having had to replace my phone twice in under two years has convinced me that I should treat my phones as if they were disposable, and so I'm going to buy my next phone at "disposable" prices. My next phone will probably be a Moto E4 or something in a similar price range (and I'd be willing to buy a $50 Chinese shitphone if only I could find one with AOSP and not some shitty custom UI).

You don't want the cheapest. Better something nice like a Xiaomi Mi A1. It is part of the Android One program (clutter free stock Android, timely updates) and doesnt cost a fortune.

I saw their webpage, and this jumped out at me:

> full metal body

Metal bodies fuck with my synesthesia—the feeling of metal on my fingers makes me ill—so that's a total dealbreaker. It has to be plastic.

I can relate to that. My SO has it too, her auditory and tactile senses being affected. Q: A nice PU bumper doesn't help either?

It looks like it can be rooted with Magisk, which makes it pretty appealing (at least if Xiaomi post factory images you can flash yourself).

Apparently you can just disable the big cores and it will boot: https://www.xda-developers.com/nexus-5x-bootloop-fix-boot-ph...

But mine's running perfectly so far. I even slightly overclocked the big cores. Changed to underclocked right now :D

I tried that when my last phone died. It didn't work.

From what I saw trawling the XDA forums, there's a small percentage of bootloop victims who have all cores affected and not just the big ones, and I was part of that unlucky few.