You’re still doing that hater stuff. This 100% is about “mobile devices” in general. All of them have lithium batteries and all of them have occasional fire issues. Any phone you’re looking at is going to have a history of battery fires.

Brother, this thread is 2 months old, and it was not available at that time.

I didn’t make any assumptions, I just read your comment. Again, any mobile devices are subject to fires.

I’m quoting here:

replacing the batteries is a huge pain in the ass

I will be waiting until EU regulations on battery replacement

It doesn’t sound like you were talking about phones catching fire.

Regardless, the number of phones that have caught fire is in the single digits. If that concerns you, my only advice would be to avoid any and all mobile electronics, because this is an inherent risk in all of them.

Also the personal attacks are unwarranted and unappreciated and only serve to undermine any sort of argument you’re trying to put forward.

What phones are you shopping for that have a “good” battery design? If it’s the Fairphone, that’s the only one, so no need to ask. It’s really not that hard to swap them, anyway. The difficulty is deeply overblown.

There’s no shortage of downsides to Pixels but the two I listed alone very simply make them stand above the rest, and in my opinion are the most important.

Hmm, I was fully expecting Ron Swanson there.

LOL no it’s not, it’s very much a humanity thing.

I know that people do it, but it’s still shocking. The experience is horrendous, the hardware is completely underpowered, the display is absolutely tiny, the display resolution is too high, the battery is tiny, you’re constantly taken out of the game by annoying interruptions, going in and out is a pain because the system will kill the app, and worst of all, pretty much every mobile app I’ve ever seen, as well as the stores that provide them, are absolutely riddled with ads and microtransactions. Back in the day we had Angry Birds, and it was legitimately a fun, excellent, and simple game that I really enjoyed, but that game, and the entire industry as a whole, has been absolutely ruined by exploitation. Is there another store that exists that isn’t like that where you can find actually fun games to play?

Which service did you use? In my experience they can detect and reject these services.

I can assure you that any Pixel device is perfectly capable of running Solitaire.

Personally I use Facebook as a launchpad for IRL relationships. Kinda like Meetup or similar. Everything gets posted to Facebook. There are Facebook groups. They don’t get posted anywhere else. FB basically has a Monopoly on group events and socializing/networking.

Aside from that, Marketplace. Especially since Craigslist randomly banned me from posting for no reason.

You can use Messenger without an account, but you do have to provide your phone number.

E: I’m literally the only person providing useful information and being downvoted for it LOL nice. What a great community.

Honestly, I’m shocked that anyone plays games on their phones…

LOL Have you tried to find a phone with a removable battery lately?

As an example, a new Pixelbook built just to show off a Pixel-exclusive Tensor chip would have been anti-competitive and against the spirit of the ChromeOS partnership. There was no new hardware paradigm that needed a guiding star, thus it never materialized.

Isn’t that exactly why Pixels exist?

I recommend the Pixel to absolutely everyone because:

1. 7 years of software updates
2. Unlockable bootloader

That’s pretty much it. Aside from that, most modern smartphones are more or less the same.

The long term software updates mean you can buy a fairly old device for very little, and expect it to last many years into the future. As far as I know, only Samsung has matched them on that, but I can’t stand the mountains of bloatware on those things, and they’ve also recently started locking the bootloader, so fuck them twice.

The last time I contacted a representative they started relentlessly blowing up my phone begging for donations, so I don’t even do that anymore.

people dont understand whats going on so thats why they dont care.

If they don’t understand, it’s because they don’t care. Companies like Meta, MS and Alphabet make international headlines every day for privacy violations.

Apple adopted it nearly a year ago.

RCS was created by the GSMA. It’s an open standard, but as far as I know, the only way to use it is with proprietary closed-source apps from Google, Samsung, or Apple, using proprietary servers. So in that way, it’s about as private as something like WhatsApp, and only slightly more “open” in practice.