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1. wheels+B7[view] [source] 2023-10-04 15:29:10
>>skille+(OP)
I feel like the elephant in the room is that there's no phone battery that's going to stay useful in anywhere close to that time frame, and replacing phone batteries is usually a losing proposition. I've tried, several times. Fake, low-quality batteries are rampant (usually degrading within weeks), and genuine ones are prohibitively expensive -- usually a significant fraction of the cost of a new phone.
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2. rkager+3y[view] [source] 2023-10-04 17:06:59
>>wheels+B7
Even if properly replacing the battery costs 2/3rds of a new phone, I'd be happy to pay that a couple times over its lifetime to squeeze extra years out of it and reduce how often I have to go through the gruelling process of successfully migrating everything over to a new phone (it's a real pain for those who prefer to avoid forking your data over to Google, which I gather is required by the built-in options like cloud backups and D2D transfer).
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