With my trusty iPhone 7 starting to really fall apart this year (not just software and a potentially replaceable battery), I actually found myself downright giddy preordering the #fairphone 5 the other day.
It’s basically what I’ve been wanting my iPhone longevity to be (prior to the 7 I had a 3GS), with a dash of more software control.
Would have been nice if they had also countered the madness of modern want for large displays, but only so much target group downscaling can be done I guess ;)
@AngryAnt Just two days ago I golfed my iPhone SE (6th gen) into 4 feet of water with a kayak paddle… It was pretty impressive for a complete accident. Seems fine after some surgery and a day of drying. Researching options myself now as I no longer trust its longevity. It will be losing updates soon anyway I suppose.
@slembcke I once managed to drown an iBook by biking a long route in heavy rain with the laptop powered on in a nice watertight bag… which was left open…
At that time it was still easy to take Apple laptops apart into lots of small pieces with screws. I left them out to dry over night and it successfully booted for years after.
It had unfortunately developed a tiny stain of rust near the GPU, which meant that every once in a while video/gaming would induce a kernel panic.
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