@scuttlebutt Vintage fall 2016 iPhone 7+ for me, so it's just over nine years old (I got it at release, more or less). I theoretically plan to replace it basically now, since it's stuck on iOS 15, but I keep not getting around to it, party because the whole replacement will be a giant pain.
(I like the fingerprint sensor more than I expect to like face unlock, for example.)
@scuttlebutt My face is pretty variable in common usage. Mask vs no mask, multiple (sun)glasses variations (and sometimes no glasses), bicycle helmet versus no bicycle helmet. I suspect I'll have a lot of uncertainty. Fingerprint unlock is almost 100% predictable without being so broad that, for example, someone with my broad face shape in dark sunglasses plus a mask can unlock it. (Because some of the time I will be unlocking in that situation.)
@scuttlebutt The other thing about fingerprint vs face unlock is that, as I was reminded today, I spend a certain amount of time carrying my phone around face-up and looking at it with it deliberately not unlocked. Fingerprint unlock is very hard to accidentally trigger (and then accidentally wind up touch-interacting with stuff on the screen). I suspect face unlock is more trigger happy, but maybe I'm wrong.
@scuttlebutt I actually do have two Nokia 6150 (ca. 27 years) in workable shape, but they tend to lose battery contact and often enough also SIM "contact" (my guess is that modern SIMs need more power than older ones which the old phone doesn’t deliver; my Trium Astral failed mostly the same way), so I’m suffering with a dumbphone of about five or so years of age.
They want to turn off GSM in 3-5 years anyway. Don’t know what I do then. Probably suffering trying to phone on a breaking-down smartphone.
They do still make dumbphones. It takes a bit of looking, but they're there.
https://www.bestproducts.com/tech/electronics/g60343009/best-dumb-phones/ has a few examples (I have nothing to do with this site, just found it by a simple web search)
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This one is under 2 years (maybe under 1), but the predecessor made it 6 years or so.
@silvermoon82 @scuttlebutt yeah, probably the poll should be 'how long do you keep your phone, barring or including partial or total destruction" :-P
@scuttlebutt @wouter I know they still do, I’m using one from Aldi from 4-5 years or so ago at the moment, but (almost) all of them use only GSM still, and I don’t see plans of that changing (or they want to milk out old stock first…), also making a 5G dumbphone is going to be quite more expensive, and I have pretty bad experience with the durability of those (lost a Nokia 110 in its belt bag on a bus trip, display broke but front was undamaged, so possibly the small amount of side torsion…)
@scuttlebutt @cks uh, just don’t enable it. I don’t have any biometrics set up.
Stick to 18 though for now, don’t get a device that already ships with 36. That’s gonna be a pain.
Of course that doesn't answer the reliability, but then that's probably just another case of planned obsolescence, not much I can help with that...
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@scuttlebutt @arrjay I’ve got my wife’s prior 12, and I still have the X laying around.
@becomingwisest @scuttlebutt I’ve got a weird gap going on because I bought the iPhone SE 3 basically the month they stopped selling it in Apple stores, so it’s the newest of an older phone?
The only reason I have a new phone is because I los my android phone. My new phone is Linux - FuriOS's FLX1.