> My iPhone 5S is still able to make calls and send messages as well as take pictures. So is my iPhone 7. Except that both have broken lightning ports that I ha

> My iPhone 5S is still able to make calls and send messages as well as take pictures. So is my iPhone 7. Except that both have broken lightning ports that I had to replace That doesn't correlate to my experience. My iPhone 5S: - Cannot make calls or text, because the towers that power 3G have been shut down. - Charges perfectly fine over lightning - Is stuck on iOS 12 - Takes pictures (we agree on this one!) Meanwhile, it needs a new battery to have a longer lifespan. That's the only single point of failure. I'll contrast that to the various Android devices, where the first point of failure is the USB port. I will say, at one point I thought that the lightning port was failing. A piece of trash had gotten trapped in it. Removing the blockage fixed the problem.