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I buy cheap phones. On the one occassion that I did drop one on concrete and
shatteted the screen, I didn't cry, continued to use it for another 6 months,
and finally when part of the touchscreen started acting flakey I bought a
new cheapo.
Something must be wrong with me. I just don't use my phone for much other than as a telephone, for ssh, and for browsing the news so that I don't have to make eye contact with strangers in public. For those purposes, the cheapest android phones you can find these days work just fine.
Something must be wrong with me. I just don't use my phone for much other than as a telephone, for ssh, and for browsing the news so that I don't have to make eye contact with strangers in public. For those purposes, the cheapest android phones you can find these days work just fine.
2022-02-13 16:43 from IGnatius T Foobar
My phone is more than three years old and starting to get a bit long in
the tooth. I'm going to try factory erasing it to see if that makes it
faster -- I bet it will.
But since it's an old phone that I don't mind wrecking, now is the
time to try something I've wanted to try for a long time: keeping it
without a case.
I've always had phones in cases, and I'm wondering whether it's really
necessary.
I don't mind the scuffs and dings from normal use, since I keep my
phones way past their ability to resell. All I really care about is
that I don't break it or crack the screen.
What say you, fellow humans? Case or no case?
I am non-case user here. I am of the opinion that a phone should be survivable enough with no case for the get go. A lot of people has cased phones and they are in no worse state than the phones I care for.
That said, I only have a smartphone for one of my jogs. The rest of the time I use a Nokia feature phone. The Nokia has survived falling into a pool of horse pee, being grabbed and shaken by horse mouths, and dropping every now and then. I also threw it against a wall in a rage and the thing shows no significant damage.
Meanwhile, my last caseless smartphone has a non-dangerous crack on its screen for a single drop.
I calculate a smartphone to be suposed to last 4 years. A smartphone dies faster from obsolescence than from accidents, so it does not make much sense to get a case for it imo. I refuse to fund the case scam when phone companies should be making tough devices, instead of devices you have to toughen up.
Mine is mostly a music player and a convenient camera, that also can go online for texting to the wife.
Also is nice as a WAP, if i need to get into work or something. ( which is rare )
Mon Feb 14 2022 08:45:14 AM EST from zelgomerI buy cheap phones. On the one occassion that I did drop one on concrete and shatteted the screen, I didn't cry, continued to use it for another 6 months, and finally when part of the touchscreen started acting flakey I bought a new cheapo.
Something must be wrong with me. I just don't use my phone for much other than as a telephone, for ssh, and for browsing the news so that I don't have to make eye contact with strangers in public. For those purposes, the cheapest android phones you can find these days work just fine.
I've got expensive phones, I'm very cautious - I keep a smaller rubber bumper case and a regular screen protector. I've never cracked a screen - ever...
Yet.
Mon Feb 14 2022 08:45:14 EST from zelgomerI buy cheap phones. On the one occassion that I did drop one on concrete and shatteted the screen, I didn't cry, continued to use it for another 6 months, and finally when part of the touchscreen started acting flakey I bought a new cheapo.
Something must be wrong with me. I just don't use my phone for much other than as a telephone, for ssh, and for browsing the news so that I don't have to make eye contact with strangers in public. For those purposes, the cheapest android phones you can find these days work just fine.
I am quite frugal with money when it comes to computers/phones (no difference these days LOL). Cheap phone, all my laptop/desktop computers are secondhand (or third or fourth hand for all I know) and run Linux or BSD (Windows runs like a snail on them, not a problem since I don't care for Windows anyway).
That's the nice thing about where we are with technology right now -- for
the most part you can be perfectly happy with cheap/old stuff if you're only
doing generic stuff with it. I'm typing this message on a ten year old laptop
and will save it to a server that is just as old.
Which is why they now build in planned destruction in devices ( like non-user removable batteries.. or things that just 'magically die' in a couple of years )
Thu Jun 02 2022 09:12:34 AM EDT from IGnatius T FoobarThat's the nice thing about where we are with technology right now -- for the most part you can be perfectly happy with cheap/old stuff if you're only doing generic stuff with it. I'm typing this message on a ten year old laptop and will save it to a server that is just as old.
Planned obsolescence is absolutely, positively, without a doubt, the reason
I accidentally dropped my phone while dialing up something to listen to while
taking a shower. Dropped it in the tub and it came apart in the running water.
It stopped working because of planned obsolescence. Damn these tech companies.
It stopped working because of planned obsolescence. Damn these tech companies.