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New phone... What are the chances of this surviving until 2030? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/googlepixel@lemmy.world
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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

My Nexus 4 from 2012 still works. It's also running Android 13.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Every nexus phone I had (I owned 3) broke after 1 - 2 years of use T_T

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Some of those nexus phones were duds. Bought my wife a Nexus 5X when they came out, it was already acting up that Christmas. We've all had hooptie phones somewhere along the line, but pretty much everyone I talked to that had a 5X or a 6P at the time seemed to be having major issues with them.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    How is the battery after that long?

    I use my pixel xl every day for two years and now it has a 10 min battery life. It's no longer a working phone and just a extra screen that's permanently plugged in.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    8 years would be the Nexus 6P. I booted mine up last year and aside from the faulty SoC it's still a perfectly usable phone. Those dual front facing speakers are still great. Battery life is poor, but then it was poor to begin with.

    I think we've also plateaued in terms of features. A phone in 2030 will probably have a brighter screen and slightly better camera, but outside of synthetic benchmarks I doubt it's going to look or feel any different than the Pixel 8 will in day to day use.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Not even sure we will have phones by then, they probably will more or less be fully handheld computers. I mean they are pretty much already that, but you get some good storage and flexibility in operating systems, some sort of keyboard config, and I don't even think laptops will be very common. My point is, I don't think a phone from today will even be relevant in 2030.

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