well the battery goes bad and has to be thrown out eventually

to combat this problem we've made the battery impossible to remove so that you'll throw out your whole phone with the battery too

you're supposed to buy a new phone every year and then eat the old phone just like with flatscreen TVs

7 years ago, I bought a flagship phone in hopes of keeping it for a decade.

Last year, I had to buy a new phone because the cell towers stopped broadcasting on frequencies my phone supported. It became a neat WiFi-only brick, and useless for my purposes, in 60% of my target lifetime.

In short, the entire industry is configured for a sub-decade obsolescence cadence.

Yeah. I am currently nursing the last keyboard phone ever made (no I don't care about the titan or whatever it's called) and I feel your pain.

use the website instead of the native app

I break my phone after every phone call.

Phones really are in a bad spot, even ROMs that extend lifespan come at a cost to Security a lot of the time. It's completely up to a manufacturer how long to give a phone security updates, and the phone could die before that due to irreplaceable batteries. When looking at phones that last long, the only options (that I would consider) are the Fairphone and the Pixel, of which only the latter even supports Graphene OS. I do know that Fairphone tries to extend the lifespan even further than they promise, but the phones are really expensive for what they provide.

I would go for one of the Pixel 8s if you need a new phone, a bit more expensive (edit: than a budget phone) but they are promising 7 years of updates, and you can install Graphene OS on it (Graphene OS works with banking apps as well.)

Logged into my banking app for it to tell my that my version of Android is outdated, leaving me vulnerable to attacks, and that I need to update my system. I see no updates and sure enough, the manufacturer just recently declared my phone EOL.

Even worse is they lock the bootloader so you can't install a costum OS

Probably a stupid question, but are there any "Linux equivalent" for smartphones?

Check out LineageOs. The point of the phone os is to allow you to keep using your phone for as long as you want. Bit of a pain to initally setup though

I really like the phones Unihertz sells and makes. They are unique little pieces and they even offer replacement parts for all of their phones! The battery is dying? No prob, just pop in a new one.

I also like that they are amazingly priced. Other than that, fuck Google and major phone manufacturers. I hate them and this garbo closed down OS.

I need a new phone at some point in the next couple years but idfk what to get. I have a galaxy s7 edge and I don't want to spend money on something that feels worse in some way

Dont buy a fking xiaomi it fking sucks and the build quality is terrible and its full of random software bugs like the qr code scanner just randomly not workinf

If you want to buy a cheap Chinese phone get a oneplus or a huawei or a oppo instead

Yeah, I end up replacing my phone every 4-5 years. I always buy the 2 year old flagship phone they are starting to liquidate for deep discounts outright. It's always good enough. But that's about how long it takes to either have the battery starting to show it's age or the charging ports to be fucked or something else to be going bad. What sucks is having to take a phone like that within 2 years to a repair place to fix the port and replace the battery, which I've done for 2 phones. After a certain amount of time it gets harder to get parts for old phones.

I'm mostly pissed off that OLED display tech has become so commonplace. Prone to burn-in and yellowing planned-obsolescence piece of shit tech. Give me IPS any fucking day. Sure, blacks aren't completely black, and power draw is slightly higher, but IPS displays last.