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 Think about how ridiculous the current phone market is. The primary argument they have for getting you to buy a new phone is that your battery is about to go bad. The camera on any decent phone will still be good into the foreseeable future. These phone cameras are better than instamatics, and rival compact cameras. The only reason a phone will generally go bad is if the Network technology changes requiring an upgrade. Most phones would easily last 10 years. The phone makers simply do not want this.

Take the TV as an analogous electronic device. Years ago people bought a TV for a minimum of 10 years. Many people kept TVs for 20 to 30 years. Now TVs are almost like a throwaway device. Especially if you live in apartments, every time you move just throw away the TV. But those TVs still work, and so do your phones. We've just gotten used to the idea that buying another phone every two years is ok.

They recently have come up with a million mile battery for cars. What this means is that the battery will last about 14 years and in theory could go a million miles. So unless I'm missing something, you could use that same technology in phones and keep your phone for 14 years. We used to keep phones indefinitely. If you had a phone at your house you would just keep it your whole life. But these smart phones are tiny little supercomputers. They will do almost anything that big computers do in the palm of your hand. So, there is sort of a gray area as to when you need a new one.

For basic phone usage there seems to be five general areas, 

  1. talking to people, 
  2. texting, 
  3. Camera
  4. email, 
  5. and internet through a browser. 
  6. Maybe a sixth general category would be phone apps.

All phone apps could be replaced with web pages, but I haven't really looked into why a separate app is better than just having a web app.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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