a few weeks ago, the charging port on my phone stopped working. luckily, i have a phone from a company that has put repairability as a high priority, so i was able to order a new usb board for 10 bucks and install it myself using their tutorial. i feel very accomplished, i have never repaired an electronic like that before. :)
It’s kinda dumb that most phones aren’t designed to be more durable. You can design the best looking glass and aluminium sandwich there ever was, at the end of the day people will still put a case on it to protect their $2000 device…
devices held together by adhesives was an innovate approach
but also a degenerate one… which has led phones to degenerate into their current state of tricky repairability.
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My Oneplus 11 has been through the ringer with no case. Practically thrown it at concrete on more than one occasion. The body is scuffed here or there, but the glass is pristine. Kinda wild to me because I had phone in the early days that broke their glass if you looked at them wrong.
Weirdly enough, I know someone who works in construction and has a OnePlus 11, too; front and back shattered the first time he dropped it on the job.