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Do many people really have a stockpile of working old phones? From my observations, phones get destroyed, used until the battery swells and breaks them, or han
by newsclues 4mo ago
Do many people really have a stockpile of working old phones?
From my observations, phones get destroyed, used until the battery swells and breaks them, or handed down to kids or less careful users. No one I know has a bunch of old phones that are still useful but unused.
- pornel 4mo agoThere are recycling and trade-in programs that could collect compatible phones and pass them on in bulk.
- jstanley 4mo agoThey're not useful as phones, because the battery, screen, radio, etc. are damaged; but they may still have a working CPU inside, which would be sufficient for this project.
- fer 4mo agoI have Nexus 5, Xiaomi A1, Redmi Note 7, Samsung S7, and a Kindle Fire HDX, all running either LineageOS (Kindle) or PostmarketOS (the rest). PmOS ones run some not very demanding containers (scrapers) on k3s.
- t-3 4mo agoI have a drawer full of old phones with broken screens, obsolete chipsets, etc. I usually buy phones rather than get them through a contact plan with trade-ins though.
- jeffbee 4mo agoThe article mentions the Pixel Fold. I suspect Google possesses every Pixel Fold ever made.
- david_allison 4mo agoI have a large amount, some are occasionally useful when debugging.
- nosioptar 4mo agoI did before the switch to volte. I recycled them wheb carriers decided to block a bunch of phones.