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People willing to repair their own device is a niche audience as well. If you’re willing to go through the effort of fixing your device, there’s a decent chanc
by comte7092 4y ago
People willing to repair their own device is a niche audience as well. If you’re willing to go through the effort of fixing your device, there’s a decent chance you’re willing to flash a custom rom.
- lolinder 4y agoScreens yes, battery no. Or at least changing batteries used to be mainstream. Anyone born before the year 2000 should not be at all intimidated by changing a battery. I can't speak for Gen Z, it's possible they've lost that skill.
- angry_octet 4y agoIt's just very expensive. If it becomes affordable they will do it. I remember having spare batteries for my Motorola, and an external battery charger, because charging via the built in would take ages.
- dlhavema 4y agoI remember my Old Samsung's and HTC thunderbolt all have replaceable batteries, as well as the Motorola Droid which was super cool.. Not going to these were the early ones. I think starting with the S8 or so they stopped letting you replace the battery. I'm on pixels now. And my Pixel 6 doesn't have a replaceable battery...
- jorvi 4y agoReplacing the battery used to be just popping off the back cover, sliding out the battery then sliding in a new one. These days it’s a perilous task that requires multiple spudgers and picks, a screen heater, finger acrobatics to make sure you don’t slash or rip any fragile cables, and then you have to wrestle the battery from its adhesive coffin.
- lolinder 4y agoRight, but Nokia supposedly fixed that with this phone.