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Still rocking my MI A1 after 5 years, and allowed to actually replace its parts too without signing into proprietary repair program which requires apple to remo

Still rocking my MI A1 after 5 years, and allowed to actually replace its parts too without signing into proprietary repair program which requires apple to remotely activate your new installed parts. I hate when useful things that work just fine are artificially reduced to e-waste. Now if we could go back to the nokia times, when swappable batteries were thing and spare parts were actually sold by the manufacturers.

tpxl 4y ago
Still have my original Galaxy Note 1. Original battery, screen recently replaced with a third party one for cheap. Calls and texts work fine, navigation is OK, I don't care about the rest.
BozeWolf 4y ago
Do you still get software updates from the manufacturer? Also, you do understand that you are probably the exception to the rule that in general iphones seem to get support longer than android phones. In my opinion, in general, unsafe (outdated) devices should not be used as they are a huge attack vector because there are so many of them.
- szdva 4y ago
  Despite being an Android One phone, it was released with Android 7 but got stuck in Android 9 (Android 13 being the latest version). That makes it two years of updates. Yeah, the Android ecosystem is pathetic like that.
- Cloudef 4y ago
  Last update was 2020, but I don't really care about the updates nor "security", which is just blanket term for lockdown, aka security for the vendor, not your security. Android allows me to do things and does not treat me like a criminal in addition to feeling like I actually own the device.
  - bootsmann 4y ago
    I don't know if I would keep some of my most private information on a device that has not had security upgrades for two years. Especially when exploits like [CVE-2022-20465](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-20465 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-2046...) which bypass the lockscreen exist.
    - Cloudef 4y ago
      I wouldn't keep anything important on a phone no matter what phone it is. And even then if I did, I would use separate encryption app for storing such data.

tpxl 4y ago

Still have my original Galaxy Note 1. Original battery, screen recently replaced with a third party one for cheap. Calls and texts work fine, navigation is OK, I don't care about the rest.

BozeWolf 4y ago

Do you still get software updates from the manufacturer? Also, you do understand that you are probably the exception to the rule that in general iphones seem to get support longer than android phones. In my opinion, in general, unsafe (outdated) devices should not be used as they are a huge attack vector because there are so many of them.

szdva 4y ago
Despite being an Android One phone, it was released with Android 7 but got stuck in Android 9 (Android 13 being the latest version). That makes it two years of updates. Yeah, the Android ecosystem is pathetic like that.
Cloudef 4y ago
Last update was 2020, but I don't really care about the updates nor "security", which is just blanket term for lockdown, aka security for the vendor, not your security. Android allows me to do things and does not treat me like a criminal in addition to feeling like I actually own the device.
- bootsmann 4y ago
  I don't know if I would keep some of my most private information on a device that has not had security upgrades for two years. Especially when exploits like [CVE-2022-20465](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-20465 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-2046...) which bypass the lockscreen exist.
  - Cloudef 4y ago
    I wouldn't keep anything important on a phone no matter what phone it is. And even then if I did, I would use separate encryption app for storing such data.