Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade
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Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade::North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google.
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Mine is 5 years old, a Samsung S9. Other then the shorter battery everything seems to work just fine.
Imagine if you could easily swap a new battery in. Heaven.
Thing is, you used to be able to do that. Then they quetly took that option away.
I paid someone to replace the battery in my Samsung S10E. The battery was never good in that thing to begin with despite all my favorite tech YouTubers saying otherwise. Anywho, I think the repair shop must have gaevin me a bunk battery because it was worse than before. Got a pixel 7 last year. I definitely would have preferred to just be able to swap the battery myself.
I had the same experience. The repair shops use shit batteries
Usually pulled from another phone they practically got for free for parts and gives them great profit margins.
Goodness the S9. If I could turn back time and keep that phone. I ended up "upgrading" to an S20 or 21 and hated every second of my interaction with that phone. I ended up "upgrading" again to the fold just so I could have a physical fingerprint sensor instead of the garbage screen one but now have to deal with bad apps and wonky battery life and no cases.
I really think Samsung peaked at the S7 or S9 both were fantastic phones.