Also they are probably not repairable at all.
Part of the high cost is ensuring that you support the phone not just software wise but also with spare parts for some time and those ultra cheap phones usually do neither
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JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They are all shit they all come with bloat/adware harvesting your data. So may as well get a cheap one if you need to have one. You’re getting taken for a ride either way. If you can buy one with a vanilla or hardened and privacy oriented one then thats another story.
hannes3120@feddit.de 8 months ago
LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 8 months ago
No, opposite on the hardware front. The cheap phones tend to be much more physically repairable.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 8 months ago
When I bought my phone a few years ago, motorola offered one with relatively stock android, no forced install of facebook or whatever, several years of (timely) android updates, and a large battery. A few years down the line, and I'm still getting updates and the battery still lasts days.
And it was plastic and came with a cover, so it's survived the occasional fall just fine.