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Re:Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone by capableweb on Saturday February 25, 2023 @08:27PM (#34942167)
Seems this new phone costs about 150 EUR, which for three years, would be 50 EUR per year, if you keep for as long as it gets security updates.

A iPhone 14 costs ~1000 EUR where I am. If you expect to get 7 years of security updates out of it (I think that's what Apple says? Not sure, someone please correct me), then it'll be 142 EUR per year.

Three times the price, if you calculate it per year.

After three years of having this Nokia phone, you can buy the new model, have it for three years again, and repeat this in a total of 6 times (900 EURs, for security updates during 18 years), and you still didn't pay as much as you paid for the iPhone.

So with all of this in mind, seems to be a pretty OK guarantee, timeline and price, at least compared to the "flagship" smartphone that Apple makes.

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Re:Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone by sdf4j on Saturday February 25, 2023 @08:37PM (#34942215)
A budget phone that is just less than three times cheaper than the most expensive flagship one?
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Re:Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone by capableweb on Saturday February 25, 2023 @09:36PM (#34942508)
The most expensive flagship from Apple costs around 2000 EUR (more than 10 times cheaper), I meant "flagship" of smartphones in general, but one of the cheaper ones recently released from Apple.

You still get the same amount of years of security updates though, if you buy the cheapest model from Apple or not.

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Re:Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone by swatcoder on Saturday February 25, 2023 @09:16PM (#34942416)
People will note that there are worse problems in the world, but tossing a sophisticated piece of electronics every three years by design sounds really wasteful, especially when practical capabilities change so much more slowly now.

It’s a bummer that this is normalized.

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Re:Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone by cubefox on Sunday February 26, 2023 @03:12PM (#34948888)
I was comparing repairability to longer security updates, not cheap Android phones to expensive iPhones. For that matter, iPhones aren't especially repairable either: So if a cheap Nokia can be better than an iPhone in this regard, why couldn't it be at least as good in terms of updates?
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