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I mean, aside from foldables, why should I buy a new phone if nothing's changed much. Most new Android releases seem to make me dislike something here and there.
I've had this phone for about a year and a half now, I'm going to take it to a phone repair place and swap out the battery for a new one, then it will be just like new
What did you do to your phone's battery? I've got my phone for two and a half years and I still get decent runtime out of it.
And I agree... if the only innovations these days involve adding new cameras and removing other common features (like headphone jacks...) I don't really see the point in upgrading.
An update from a previous Android version to a newer one borked the battery life. It's been noticeably worse than when new. It has times when it just heats up because the CPU is going better, but the actual load is minimal.
It's done because this phone has battery saving features, like you can set it to only charge up to 80%. Over time the max battery life has taken a moderate hit. It's not that it's not tolerable, it's just that I wanted to refresh. Also I kind of messed up my headphone jack, I thi k the ground contact broke, and I already ordered the replacement parts so I want that installed anyway, so I might as well put in a new battery.
Pretty much how I feel about this as well. My phone usage patterns haven't changed in years. There are a handful of apps, such as email, calendar, and a music player that I use day to day. The way these apps work hasn't really changed over the years. What I find frustrating that even though hardware keeps getting faster, software manages to make up for that by getting ever more bloated. Imagine if we didn't have phone released every years, but in stead focused on optimizing software so it runs better. I bet you could get a ton of performance out of older devices that way.
Not just phones imo, modern computing devices are unnecessarily powerful. Like modern work laptops with 11th gen i5s. They should be able to handle word processing. Computers with a 300mhz CPU can write to text files. But windows still manages to chug with a few office apps open. How they manage to cram that much bloat in astounds me
Completely agree, there's just an incredible amount of software bloat nowadays that adds pretty much nothing of any real value for the user. I recently put Linux on an old 2015 macbook I have and it was shocking to see just how snappy it is compared to macos.