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I have no idea why the industry switched from aluminum backs to glass. I thought the whole point was to enable wireless charging, but some of the phones don't e

I have no idea why the industry switched from aluminum backs to glass. I thought the whole point was to enable wireless charging, but some of the phones don't even support that. As long as they don't, I'd much prefer we went back to the aluminum unibodies of the HTC M7-10 phones. They were gorgeous, in addition to being durable.

specialp 7y ago
Actually plastic is ideal too. I mean almost everyone has either a broken phone, or a giant case on their phone because it is made entirely of glass. Back when Nokia made the Lumia phones and the N9, the solid polycarbonate was really nice looking and durable. But people judge a phone from when they pick it up in the store, and there aluminum/glass is definitely more slick looking. Only to be put in an otter box or something...
- SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
  I didn't put my phones into cases until I got one with a glass back. Before it was all removable plastic backing, and shattering the glass was never a problem. My phones took tumbles down the stairs, and the worst that would happen is that back would fly one way, the battery another, and with all that kinetic energy dispersed the phone would be perfectly intact.
anewguy9000 7y ago
i have an htc m7 that is still functional! its even been thrown at a brick wall. i guess the industry realized thats bad for business.
- AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
  I still have an M7 and an M9 in a drawer somewhere. If they were GSM-unlocked, I would probably have thrown LineageOS onto the M9 and continued to use it. Unfortunately, they were both "Verizon" editions (due to the CDMA modem variant), and stopped receiving updates. I debated switching to an HTC 10 at some point, but I had heard alot of anecdotal evidence about high failure rates for the phone after a couple years. Again, it's a real shame. The HTC 10's chamfered aluminum looked gorgeous. I would pay for an identical-looking back on top of a phone with a bezel-less front and modern internals.

specialp 7y ago

Actually plastic is ideal too. I mean almost everyone has either a broken phone, or a giant case on their phone because it is made entirely of glass. Back when Nokia made the Lumia phones and the N9, the solid polycarbonate was really nice looking and durable. But people judge a phone from when they pick it up in the store, and there aluminum/glass is definitely more slick looking. Only to be put in an otter box or something...

SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
I didn't put my phones into cases until I got one with a glass back. Before it was all removable plastic backing, and shattering the glass was never a problem. My phones took tumbles down the stairs, and the worst that would happen is that back would fly one way, the battery another, and with all that kinetic energy dispersed the phone would be perfectly intact.

anewguy9000 7y ago

i have an htc m7 that is still functional! its even been thrown at a brick wall. i guess the industry realized thats bad for business.

AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
I still have an M7 and an M9 in a drawer somewhere. If they were GSM-unlocked, I would probably have thrown LineageOS onto the M9 and continued to use it. Unfortunately, they were both "Verizon" editions (due to the CDMA modem variant), and stopped receiving updates. I debated switching to an HTC 10 at some point, but I had heard alot of anecdotal evidence about high failure rates for the phone after a couple years. Again, it's a real shame. The HTC 10's chamfered aluminum looked gorgeous. I would pay for an identical-looking back on top of a phone with a bezel-less front and modern internals.