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[-] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Somewhat agree. Manufacturers releasing successive models at less than a year's interval now is ridiculous and you buying each new one - even more so, but on the other hand using the same phone for 5-6 years just because you can is also a bit drastic (even if you swap the battery midway through, by the time the second one's dead the phone will be obsolete). Maybe a bit more doable with computers, especially given that you can upgrade one component at a time. 2-3 years seems doable for a phone.

[-] spiderplant@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

I mean its not that crazy, I'm writing this on a moto Z2 play. It was released June 2017, not long till year 6 bit hope it goes longer. It's perfectly usable, runs most apps fine, can even run TFT.

Phones haven't changed that much recently, this model has a great screen, 4gb of ram(more than some laptops that are still being released!), and a decent chip. Only issue is the battery is sub 3000mah but I know of a few models from around the same time went up to 5000mah.

You do get better mileage running an OS like lineage and being degoogled since a lot of their tracking processes kill the battery and slows things down.

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