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The best phone of 2011 was probably the iPhone 4S. I didn't have this model, but I did use its predecessor the iPhone 4. I remember hanging onto that phone fo
by alex_young 5y ago
The best phone of 2011 was probably the iPhone 4S. I didn't have this model, but I did use its predecessor the iPhone 4.
I remember hanging onto that phone for about 3 years I think, and replacing a battery somewhere along the way, so I thought I'd remind myself how that process went since it wasn't stuck in my memory anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI30NPW5Kls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI30NPW5Kls
Turns out that one could actually open the case with a Phillips screwdriver. 3 screws to pull total. A little bit of glue behind the battery.
Obviously things have changed quite a bit, but I could see hanging onto that phone and replacing components as they died. Would I actually want to be using that phone now? Probably not. Should we insist on things being that easy to fix? Almost certainly.
- simonh 5y agoIve changed the batteries on about half a dozen iPhones for myself, family and friends. I think the most recent was a 6s. The third party kits are cheap and it only takes 5 or 10 minutes to check a video or two and 5 minutes to do the job. I don't understand the fuss about glue, for the phones I worked on it was just a small blob of tacky gel that came un-stuck and then re-stuck again pretty easily.
- bzzzt 5y agoI recently dug up an old 4S and was surprised the battery managed to get a few days of standby usage. While making phone calls still works, the software side is problematic. It's 32-bit which and totally unsupported. It won't reliably connect to iCloud. Hardware wise the wifi won't connect to my WPA2 router and the memory is too small to fit a modern website in the browser which means the phone will hang a while when browsing to the wrong URL. Still a nice phone to look at, no wonder they reused the design a bit for the iPhone 12.