What good are 5-7 years of updates? If you don’t let us repair our phones when we need. Assuming, everything else is fine.
I went from years of Pixels to an S22Ultra. The only hard part was that the app drawer is paged instead of scrolling. I just ignore everything Samsung/Bixby and never see it. Seems fine 🤷♀️
My old Samsung Tab A6 tablet (which is from 2016) has has been limping along at 96% full whilst having just 4 apps I actually installed and used, because of all the useless Samsung junk in it which after a few updates has expanded to use almost all of the available space and this with me trying hard to avoid updating anything not “system” or required even if pre-instealled.
(With storage usage this close to 100%, if you don’t restart the tablet once in a while, it fill up with temporary and cache files, which in turn causes random app crashes and malfunctions)
Got pissed some weeks ago and last weekend after some researched flashed a Custom ROM into it (somebody back in 2021 actually built LineageOS for it: Thanks Mone!)
I’m still using those same 4 apps in it yet storage is now 40% free, I even have an updated Android version and the thing is working as if it was new.
Screw Samsung: even when their hardware was actually decent, their software was already bloated crap.
Find me another electronics manufacturer which has put as much effort into eliminating China from its supply chain.
Do I understand correctly, that you make your buying decisions based on that?
Starting June 2024, iFixit will no longer be Samsung’s designated third-party parts and tools distributor. Also starting next month, we will no longer have a quantity limit of seven Samsung parts per repair shop per quarter.
Wow that is quite a limit Samsung. I can see why no one would want to be a partner with them. (Which was obviously the point.)
You have a typo in your title. Lemmy let’s you edit them.
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There’s one user here who’s going to see this and be so disappointed in me lol. Thing is I know but I swipe type and do little proofreading.
Ol’ Muphry’s Law strikes again
Most importantly, Samsung has only ever shipped batteries to iFixit that are preglued to an entire phone screen — making consumers pay over $160 even if they just want to replace a worn-out battery pack. That’s something Samsung doesn’t do with other vendors, according to Wiens. Meanwhile, iFixit’s iPhone and Pixel batteries cost more like $50.
Lol
What logic does Samsung think that it’s a good idea to destroy an entire phone just because of it using a third party part.
Glad they’re not afraid to call out Samsung here. Most manufacturers don’t care about repairability.
I have to wonder if they’re finding issues with the new Google phones. Supposedly Google has committed to have the Pixel 8 parts available but I haven’t had to look into it.
