If this was an economically scalable proven thing today, phones wouldn’t be sold with batteries in 5 years.
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Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 8 months ago
That could is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that headline.
Also, we can barely get OEMs to support phones for 5 years now...
elshandra@lemmy.world 8 months ago
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It is doable, but it’s not practical. Technology moves so fast nowadays, a 10 year old i7 is easilly surpassed by a modern day i3.
Don’t get me wrong, I use old tech all the time, but it’s becoming increasingly impractical to do so.
elshandra@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah so you’ll just move your battery from your i17 to your i18.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I was talking about desktop CPUs, but the same principle applies to any sort of SoC or CPU. What is “the best” today is surpassed within a month or two.
This is also why I only buy second hand computer equpment. There’s no point, it’s extremely expensive the day it hits the market, and in a year, it’s like 1/3 of the price. This is especially true for GPUs.
Noerttipertti@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Not all phones are smartphones. Theres still plenty of use cases for call/sms only phones.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Amd they don’t support anything higher than 3G, which will go in history in a few years… and then the only thing you can use them for is a paper weight.
Noerttipertti@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Bollocks. Nokia 800 tough, 2660 flip, 2720 flip, 225 4g, 6300 4g, 8000 4g - just from one manufacturer, and there’s plenty of others.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
They’re called burner phones. No real OS on them, no upgrade path, nothing. You wanna make phone calls and send SMS, that’s fine, but let’s face it, most people nowadays don’t use phones just for that.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I’d say, 10 years is more than enough, the device is practically unusable after that, even if it’s still working.
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 8 months ago
Not if you can change the battery...
I am having to retire my 7 year old S5, which still works perfectly, because 3G networks are being switched off in a couple of months.
themurphy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The S5 is from 2014 which this year makes 10 years.
Pons_Aelius says: “the device is practically unusable after that, even if it’s still working.”
You say: “Not if you can change the battery”
AND THEN YOU GO ON to tell that your 10 year old phone is working but practically unusable, confirming in the most spectacular way, that Pons was right all along, even matching your very on experience to the point and date! And you still started your argument against it.
It’s amazing really. Bravisimo.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It won’t work with modern apps in about 3 or 4 years, or even if it does, it’ll be so slow, it would prsctically be unusable.
I have an Asus Zenfone 3 Max from 2016. It has 8 cores @ 900MHz and 3GB of RAM. I only use it for BT auido streaming (play music on modified audio system from the 90’s), that’s it. It can play YT videos at Full HD, but searching and acreen flipping is so slow, it’s practically unusable. Everything is generally slow on it, even browsing. It takes like 10+ seconds to load a more complex page (with media). Sorry, but that’s unusable to me.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Maybe on Android… my iPhone is 5 years old and works better now (faster, more features, more apps) than it did when it was brand new.