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[โ€“] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The last several phones I've purchased have been so thin they were unusable without a case, and battery life about a day. They could double the thickness, still be less than a half inch thick, and add a battery 3 times the size of the internal one. That would get 2+ days of charge. With half the number of charge cycles, the battery lifetime would probably double.

[โ€“] shads@lemy.lol 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So twice as long between new phones, what sort of monster are you! Expecting the poor multinationals to build a phone for you and not have its effective lifespan artificially limited by the compromised battery solutions is basically communism, or socialism or woke.

{Insert phone company} loves you and only wants what's best for you, it's super distressing to {insert phone company} that they put so much into the relationship and you are so cold and dismissive of them. You should go and buy a {insert new full retail price product} to make it up to them.