ah! I love to hear that honestly. being able to do the repairs honestly fixes 90% of my issue with them. they’re not easy phones to work on and that tends to be reflected in repair costs. I just really hate to see devices with 500$ screen replacements and 150$ battery replacements.
I guess since I do it for work I tend to see more of the fails and the ones that didn’t make it.
what do you use the bigger screen for? I’ve personally never seen the appeal, even for watching things I usually would refer a monitor or tv. is game streaming really that decent at this point? (if you have experience with that)
Yeah, back when i was fixing phones for a living, people would ask me what the best brands were. I’d reply “don’t ask me, I only see the broken ones. Could be millions of happy ones out there I’ll never meet”
I do worry about the difficulty of the repair too. I wonder if it would be harder, or just use my existing skills and take me longer. Used to be able to do an iPhone screen in ten or fifteen minutes!
I don’t do a lot of gaming on my phone, but the little I do is cool on the big screen. It’s lovely to be able to see the whole email at once or when looking at a whole document.
I always had the big big screen phones before this, so in some ways it’s a smaller phone for my pocket, without sacrificing screen size. Great for web pages, really lovely when online shopping and such.
And my eyesight isn’t what it used to be!
But in the end, if I’m really honest, I got it because it’s flashy gadget tech. And I love that. So long as I can make it my own, add my own launcher and run Tasker, I’ll suffer the odd little proprietary nonsense, and disable every piece of Bloatware I can.
But to have Graphene! I wonder if it would work with the bank apps?
I love my foldable and am kinda excited at the idea of graphene OS!
I do worry about the cost, of repair or replacement.
I’m fortunate I can do my own repairs, but still the parts are pricey as you say.
For me the utility of the big screen is worth it!
ah! I love to hear that honestly. being able to do the repairs honestly fixes 90% of my issue with them. they’re not easy phones to work on and that tends to be reflected in repair costs. I just really hate to see devices with 500$ screen replacements and 150$ battery replacements.
I guess since I do it for work I tend to see more of the fails and the ones that didn’t make it.
what do you use the bigger screen for? I’ve personally never seen the appeal, even for watching things I usually would refer a monitor or tv. is game streaming really that decent at this point? (if you have experience with that)
Yeah, back when i was fixing phones for a living, people would ask me what the best brands were. I’d reply “don’t ask me, I only see the broken ones. Could be millions of happy ones out there I’ll never meet”
I do worry about the difficulty of the repair too. I wonder if it would be harder, or just use my existing skills and take me longer. Used to be able to do an iPhone screen in ten or fifteen minutes!
I don’t do a lot of gaming on my phone, but the little I do is cool on the big screen. It’s lovely to be able to see the whole email at once or when looking at a whole document.
I always had the big big screen phones before this, so in some ways it’s a smaller phone for my pocket, without sacrificing screen size. Great for web pages, really lovely when online shopping and such.
And my eyesight isn’t what it used to be!
But in the end, if I’m really honest, I got it because it’s flashy gadget tech. And I love that. So long as I can make it my own, add my own launcher and run Tasker, I’ll suffer the odd little proprietary nonsense, and disable every piece of Bloatware I can.
But to have Graphene! I wonder if it would work with the bank apps?