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Re:Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying ... by rchaud on Sunday December 08, 2024 @01:48PM (#42359225)
Not my experience at all. I have a 2016 Galaxy S7 in a drawer that would still be fine as a daily driver were it not for the worn-down battery. I have a separate phone from 2020 that I was using as a TikTok device (quite resource-heavy app) and it runs fine even now.
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Re:Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying ... by jventura on Sunday December 08, 2024 @02:10PM (#42359488)
Why don’t you replace the battery? Third party batteries are usually quite affordable and good enough! Even yesterday I’ve replaced a worned out battery on a very old iPhone 5S (2013) for my son to watch things on youtube kids..
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Re:Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying ... by xethos on Sunday December 08, 2024 @03:26PM (#42360110)
Because iPhones are not layers of glass glued together from either end, with a battery sandwiched in-between. Apple gets a lot of shit (deservedly or not), but they have taken pains to make refreshing their phones (battery, screen, etc) a not-garbage experience

If you want to replace a battery on a relatively modern Samsung flagship, you will likely swear, drink, and/or curse the engineers that decided "Glass and glue is good enough"

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