What good are 5-7 years of updates? If you don't let us repair our phones when we need. Assuming, everything else is fine.

Find me another electronics manufacturer which has put as much effort into eliminating China from its supply chain.

let’s

There's some irony for ya. :D

Woops, thanks!

You have a typo in your comment. Lemmy lets you edit them.

Most importantly, Samsung has only ever shipped batteries to iFixit that are preglued to an entire phone screen — making consumers pay over $160 even if they just want to replace a worn-out battery pack. That’s something Samsung doesn’t do with other vendors, according to Wiens. Meanwhile, iFixit’s iPhone and Pixel batteries cost more like $50.

Lol

Leaked documents from Samsung

What logic does Samsung think that it's a good idea to destroy an entire phone just because of it using a third party part.

It's not just about the cost though. They're inferior to pretty much any other mid-range or high-end smartphone too. Expensive but good would be fine. Cheap and mediocre would be fine. Expensive and mediocre though? Nah.

My £250 used phone has a faster processor, more RAM, better screen (higher resolution, brighter, bigger and higher frame rate), and a higher capacity battery with faster charging. It's a mid-range Xiaomi from a couple years ago, not a high end or flagship phone.

They should take notes from pinephone. Offers something unusual at a low cost. Since enthusiasts eat that stuff up you get extra help with software and ROMs too. Yes it's low spec, but it's good enough for enthusiasts to play with and is of good value as the price reflects the quality.

Screen is too large for me, would be nice to see a small Fairphone

But my current phone can already send messages...

The message that we approve of the removal of the headphone jack done in order to peddle wireless headphones...

I'll tell my mom that

I would rather buy nokia with ifixit partnership and save hundreds of euros. for me it's about the money 700€ is a shit ton of money

edit: okay after looking moreninto nokia phones (or hmd phones, maker of current nokias) I would propably hold my money until they release something new and good which isnt too expensive, currently their lineup is a bit weird. but they do make the phones mostly from recycled materials and I like the idea of that company. (mostly cuz it's finnish and even stores the data in finland so no china involved)

I mean if you keep a FP5 for it's entire service life it's actually a pretty damn cheap phone. If all goes well maybe a couple of battery changes tops.

Still not convinced they're for sale in my region.

If you're replacing your phone surely it's better that it doesn't come with the charger (from an environmental point of view), since you don't have to ship it back and they don't have to ship you a new one. And what does it matter if they're on different ships? It would still be pretty much the same amount of emissions released, which is probably less than the amount needed to drive it to your house. Adding the extra packaging for two separate items isn't great though, and I agree that as a customer it isn't great to get less for the same price.

What are you doing to it to need 2 battery replacements in four years, I have a Note20 Ultra 5G bought at release, still using the original battery. Battery health is estimated to still be over 90%

I wish the bands worked in Canada

The back fell off you say?