SO. MUCH. THIS.

  • YⓄ乙
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    191 year ago

    At work my manager still rocks an old Motorola g5 plus. He says phones have reached peak performance and there’s no point of upgrading. Hes a humble, down to earth guy also make $210k/ year.

    • Pxtl
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      51 year ago

      The problem is that there are security updates that those old phones need and aren’t getting. The whole “let’s tie the operating system binaries to the hardware” thing was always dumb, somehow Windows can handle binary-blob drivers that aren’t built into the OS.

    • Stefen Auris
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      51 year ago

      Oh I loved that phone! I still have it but I didn’t have the balls to replace the built in battery so I reluctantly decided to upgrade

      • YⓄ乙
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        31 year ago

        He replaced the battery by himself. Ordered stuff from ifixit.

    • @[email protected]
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      -11 year ago

      Peak is definitely not true, but there is no point in upgrading for the foreseeable future.

      I hope my phone lasts me decades. I don’t really see it being incapable of doing what I need it to unless we radically change how we use our phones.

      I’m sure people have felt the same way about PCs, too. Ever since Sandy Bridge, there hasn’t really been a reason for most PC users to upgrade unless they were gaming or did some other CPU-intensive task.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        I’ll tell you right now your phone wont last a decade.

        That battery, even with light usage, will eventually degrade to the point you’ll have to charge it multiple times a day to keep it alive.

        and then you’ll have to do the math and decide between getting a new battery and just getting a new phone.

        Thats the decision i had to make when I needed a battery for my old phone… Did the math and found the cost of a new (to me) used phone was close enough to the cost of the replacement battery + labor that it was more value to me getting the newer phone, with newer OS, and still in the receiving update window than putting a aftermarket battery in my old phone.

        Granted, the math gets heavily skewed in favor of a new battery if you are well experienced in cellphone disassembly and know you can do it without breaking the screen or back. I’m not, and any savings would go out the door if I broke anything, which is why I was going to let a professional do it.

        • @[email protected]
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          1 year ago

          I would listen to you, but I was using my previous phone for 5 years and noticed no degradation in battery life. I only upgraded to this one because it was free.

          Sorry man, maybe you’re right and time will tell. But we’ll just have to wait and see. This phone has a significantly larger battery, too.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            If there was no degredation after 5 years and thousands of charge cycles, then you need to rush your phone off to scientists so they can discover the miracle materials inside it 😜