The headphones: Probably zero.
The phone: Definitely possible, if you take care of it and are fine with not having the latest and greatest.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8.
The headphones: Probably zero.
The phone: Definitely possible, if you take care of it and are fine with not having the latest and greatest.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8.
Mobile phone might, but battery will go bad in 3-4 years and if it's OLED screen it will show ghosting for sure after same period of time. Earbuds no chance. They will die much sooner, at least battery will.
My Nexus 4 from 2012 still works. It's also running Android 13.
Ear buds no way.
Phone, would work fine though might have a bad battery at the end. But should still work ok.
Piss poor. 7 years of OS support, but I can almost guarantee you the hardware will die within 2 years.
California just passed a law that should affect the Pixel, and would require Google to provide replacement parts for the phone for 7 years also
My pixel 5 is still doing well and that's 3 years old, only gave it up as it's out of support
This smells like advertisement
I still using pixel 3 from 2018 running the lastest update of android with custom ROM
With how awful my P6 is ageing I wouldn't count on it...
Me not trusting pixel phones toast more than 2-4 years is the reason I still won't buy another one. If I see people actually still use the p8 by 2030 I might buy one again.
What's wrong with your P6? My P6 Pro is almost 2 years old and it's still working great.
I've had mine for 4 years at a time. And I change for convenience, not because they break down.
Edit: Went through the order history. I wasn't entirely correct. More like 3 years at a time. But, I didn't have to upgrade either.
My only fears is that made by Google. They can decide not to support it 3 years later. But you’ll have roms for maybe even more then 10 years.
For me is all about security updates, I'll be using GrapheneOS once it's available.
pixel phones do already have long support times tho
Get a thick 2 piece rubber/plastic case. Make sure the edge of the case sticks out significantly from the screen, so when you drop it, it will hit the case before the phone. (Provided you don't drop it on gravel or something pointy)
My pixel 3a has survived years of this. And I haven't needed to replace it yet. Sure the plastic is scuffed to hell and back, and it ads significant thickness. but it's yet to fail in protecting my phone. And I've never bought a screen protector for it.
People are right to worry about the phone's battery. If you want to keep it that long, get a 500mA charger and slow charge it every night and avoid deep discharge.
I thought this was fixed/debunked years ago?
it is. modern Smartphones have Software which prevent damage to the battery
Slim, after some years they will quietly drop the support, or only provide security updates.
At best they will exclude a Buch of Features and roll out a dumb version of the os upgrade.
My first-gen Pixel still works just fine. The battery is shit and doesn't stay on for more than an hour or so, but replacing the battery is a trivial matter. But while the battery has juice, it runs just as smoothly as it always has. Same experience with my Pixel 3, and likely to be the same experience with my Pixel 6. The Pixel line seem to withstand aging quite well, in my experience.
Depends how much you care about shit working.
My tablet works and works well, but practically every site and game related app will crash. I can use discord, reddit/lemmy but thats about all my tablet can handle. It seems to handle YouTube fine, but i don't use it on mobile because of the 50million ads.
My tablet isn't 10 years old, yet. Again it still works its just...most things don't work with it.
You could use newpipe instead of YouTube. I find it is much lighter weight
In 2-3 years the phone scene might radically change with the EU law. You might not even want to use this till 2030.
🙄 I'm sure having a removable battery is going to make me want to spend $700 on a wasteful new phone and definitely not spend $90 to have the current one replaced.
The way the volume rocker & power button popped off so easily in jerryrigs durability test, I would have doubts about its longevity...🤷🏻♂️
As a point of comparison, we just got rid of an iPhone X that was in use in the family for 6 years. It had battery replaced once, but admittedly due, if we kept it. We got rid of because Apple dropped support, plus there was a lot of physical damage from a teen carrying it, and repeatedly removing the case.
However discounting the physical damage, it worked reasonably well. If there were fewer drops, it would still have been a useful phone
By then Android will have gone through 10 yearly API level updates.
Assuming no OS competitor appears (which I really hope it does) it'll probably last 5 years if you keep it in a good condition.
But if you actually use it daily like a normal phone, then probably much less.
Google will drop support quickly for the next lineup, and they probably won't even bother with any bugfixes after a year and half.
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