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There is the durability aspect, both physical exterior and battery life. I'd say these are the only reasons I upgrade phones. Two years of being carried in a po

There is the durability aspect, both physical exterior and battery life. I'd say these are the only reasons I upgrade phones. Two years of being carried in a pocket and dropped by kids tends to knacker these things out. In fact, this leads to a pet peeve of mine: all these beautiful premium phones, made of titanium, sapphire glass and pixie dust... and the first thing you do with them is wrap them up in a plastic or rubber protector, and stick some transparent plastic on your crazy-high-res screen.

TeMPOraL 3y ago
> all these beautiful premium phones, made of titanium, sapphire glass and pixie dust... and the first thing you do with them is wrap them up in a plastic or rubber protector, and stick some transparent plastic on your crazy-high-res screen Right? It's both funny and somewhat annoying, that here you buy a beautiful phone with a screen extending to the edges, very little bezel to be found... only to reintroduce that bezel with a protector case. I sometimes pull my phone out of its protector case, to marvel at the experience of a nearly edge-less screen... only to quickly put it back, after realizing I'm holding a super-fragile metal-glass slate that keeps sliding out of my hand. My pet peeve with phones and protector cases these days is heat management: I've noticed some weirdly inverted causal relationship here, in that the phone seems to be draining the battery much faster when it's hot, as opposed to heat being an indication of power draw. I often have to take the phone out of the case and put it on a cold surface, because it will rapidly drain the battery unless I cool it down. Given the phone has no active cooling (that I know of) this makes no sense, but it's empirically how last three Galaxy phones me and my wife owned behave. Protective cases tend to be good heat insulators, making them even more annoying.
shrx 3y ago
I don't bother with cases and protectors. Sure, the corners are a bit scuffed and the screen has a few small scratches after hitting the concrete pavement a couple of times, but there are no cracks or dents after a year. I'll take it over the bulk and grime that the cases would provide.

TeMPOraL 3y ago

> all these beautiful premium phones, made of titanium, sapphire glass and pixie dust... and the first thing you do with them is wrap them up in a plastic or rubber protector, and stick some transparent plastic on your crazy-high-res screen Right? It's both funny and somewhat annoying, that here you buy a beautiful phone with a screen extending to the edges, very little bezel to be found... only to reintroduce that bezel with a protector case. I sometimes pull my phone out of its protector case, to marvel at the experience of a nearly edge-less screen... only to quickly put it back, after realizing I'm holding a super-fragile metal-glass slate that keeps sliding out of my hand. My pet peeve with phones and protector cases these days is heat management: I've noticed some weirdly inverted causal relationship here, in that the phone seems to be draining the battery much faster when it's hot, as opposed to heat being an indication of power draw. I often have to take the phone out of the case and put it on a cold surface, because it will rapidly drain the battery unless I cool it down. Given the phone has no active cooling (that I know of) this makes no sense, but it's empirically how last three Galaxy phones me and my wife owned behave. Protective cases tend to be good heat insulators, making them even more annoying.

shrx 3y ago

I don't bother with cases and protectors. Sure, the corners are a bit scuffed and the screen has a few small scratches after hitting the concrete pavement a couple of times, but there are no cracks or dents after a year. I'll take it over the bulk and grime that the cases would provide.