[Trevor]

On 8/09/2018 5:07 AM, Mike Rivers wrote:
With today's cell phones, there's no such thing as "off" until you take
the battery out - and I don't think there's a new one available today
that has a removable battery.

Thankfully mine is a couple of years old and still has a removable
battery. Not that I really need to remove it, but so much cheaper to
replace it. Dumped in order to make the phones a few mm slimmer of
course. :-(


I've tried unsuccessfully to find one,
figuring that the phone will last longer than the battery, but then
realized that applications get updated for the latest version of the
operating system, and the phone makers rarely offer more than one OS
update, if that.

But the phone keeps on working until they turn off the towers for the
system it uses like they have here with 2G. 3G next to go. And old apps
like your browser generally keep on working, or when companies like
Google break them, there are often alternatives that still work fine.
However the inability to simply update a smartphone like you can a
computer is certainly one of the reasons I'd never pay $1k for one like
many do every year or two. But some people love the built in
obsolescence, gives them a reason to keep buying the "latest and
greatest". Losing them or breaking them often occurs first though.