james_bond

Wrist watch all the way. Much quicker than checking my phone and the body is just not complete without one.

I have an apple watch which I exclusively use as a fitness tracker (I know its not great but it does what I need). And then I have a few watch's as an accessory I guess. There only worn in formal settings because I don't see the point in wearing one daily, it doesn't really take any longer to check my phone. 

I do, it's much more convenient. Aside from the hassle of fishing my phone out of my pocket just to see the time (especially annoying when I'm sitting or walking) it lets me see the time while I'm using my hands. There's a reason people moved from pocket to wrist watches.

Never did, never will. Smartphone replaced it. 

Well, you have to make a choice if its worth replacing the battery or not. That all depends on the cost of the battery and the cost of labor. I have an iPhone XR, Apple goes out of its way to ensure that 3rd parties cant easily repair the device. So in my case, when the battery degrades enough I will replace the phone. In some cases, the battery might not be user accessible, BUT if you have decent technical skills and you can find a tear down guide, then you might be able to replace the battery yourself. This really depends on the product however, I recall the Microsoft Surface tablets being difficult to open to the extent that you will probably crack the screen to do so. However with companies like ifixit not only selling the tools to do the repairs, but also in some cases selling the parts and providing the teardown instructions. It has made repairing stuff a bit easier. 
 
As @XG BChas stated, I dont believe the battery is soldered to the board. Most likely its held in by adhesive, they just made the device so its more difficult to replace the battery. 
 
The biggest thing to understand is that batteries dont last forever. They have X amount of recharge and discharge cycles they can go thru. So really the life span of the battery will depend on how your charge it and use the device. Because if its light use and your only charging it every few days then is going to last longer. If your beating the ever living hell out of it and draining the battery and having to charge it daily, then it wont last as long.

nokia snake oiled him and i mean pretty badly batteries NEVER are soldered they always have a connector on them and that one pops off like a little lego. watcb jerryrigeverythings teardown video to see how to replace a battery on a modern phone. it isnt as easy as it used to be but not impossible!

Its not "games" its cycles, a battery can only really be charged an discharged so many times before it degrades.

Depending on the phone, use of a heat gun, some careful application of pry tools, and patience, you can still service most phones (outside of iphones because Apple) in terms of battery replacement, screen replacement, etc. Soldered batteries are not actually commonly used, they are almost always still plugged into the mainboard and replaceable. It's just much harder to get to them.
I recommend you take a look at JerryRigEverything's youtube channel, and iFixIt's website guides and rankings, for more detail on what brands/models are best suited for reparability. The mentioned Fairphone is also a good call, if you want no compromise self replaceable components. It may not be easily available in India however, I think they sold mainly in the EU 
 
It is unfortunate that the industry has moved into this everything glued, non-accessible model of design, though it does come with some benefits, such as water proofing or smaller body/screen ratio.
 
I will note however, it's very rare for a battery to degrade to the point where you cannot charge, or switch the phone on. I've seen badly degraded battery life, as in it'll discharge an hour or so after unplugging, but completely unable to power on seems to indicate something more serious has gone wrong on the mainboard or charging port. Most phones can still be reasonably expected to last ~5 years of typical use.

That makes sense, there are two major things, that reduce the lifespan of a battery: charge cycles, and heat. If he was heavy gaming, the battery was probably drained and recharged quite often, and heavy games heat up the whole phone.

User replaceable batteries were sacrificed, along with other things, to the make it thinner gods. This has long been the situation with laptops as well. The batteries can generally still be replaced, but you either need special equipment or take it to an authorized service.  There's just no way to make them easily user swappable *and* have a device that is super thin and small.
 
It's also not nearly as big as a problem as it used to be, though. Most modern lithium ion batteries will easily last for years, as long as you don't abuse them. That basically just means don't constantly drain it to zero, and recharge it to 100. A lot of phone software now has battery extending functionalities like trickle charging, only charging to 85%, etc. to help you extend the battery life.
 
Still, we're pretty far past the point where you can keep a phone for a decade. At a certain point, it's just not even feasible to keep it updated with the latest OS and app versions, and once you stop being able to receive updates, it's pretty much a brick anyways.

Yes, there's no bottom lid to unscrew and replace battery.
 
The way one does it is by removing the screen, then the circuit board, and then you get to the battery and you replace it.
Specialized stores and service places have tools/machines which can warm up the phone evenly so that the glue that keeps the screen glued to the case releases the screen, allowing you access to internals.
 
Yeah, you buy your phone and you take care of it for 1-2 years, and by that point you'll probably want to buy a more modern phone, with more performance. If the battery is an issue, then you go to such service/repair place and pay maybe 50$ to replace the battery, instead of paying $150-200 for a new phone.
 

Modern phone batteries last about 1000 full charge cycles until the capacity degrades significantly.
If you're completely draining the battery each day that'd be about 3 years, but with most modern phones the battery will last several days, unless you have a lot of screen-on time. 
 
Plus batteries aren't completely "non-replaceable", they're just built in a way you can't replace them easily. With most phones, especially the popular ones like Samsung, iPhone and similar, you can probably take them to an electronics repair shop in your area and they'll replace the battery at a reasonable cost, and they have all the tools to do that in a safe way. You'll lose any waterproof rating when replacing the battery though. 

Linus just covered a phone that  can do that  
 

Maybe, the challenge is, as with all rechargeable batteries, how long is their life, vs how long i their useful life?
Can you live with a cell phone that needs to be charged every 2 hours? Probably not, so a 5 year old cell phone with a two hour battery life is pretty much e-waste.
 
Now, you can open up cell phones and change batteries, even sealed/soldered ones, you just have to be very good and very careful.

These are both true. But the power dynamic is such that large companies have more power, and so it is they and their rich executives, who need to be kept in check more so than the average person.
 
I saw a report earlier that the McDonalds CEO made something like 1200 times more than the median worker, not even the lowest worker, but the median worker. Some would argue that the CEO deserves and earns that pay. But I find that to be incredulous. Does the CEO really do as much work in 24 seconds as the median staff does in a full 8 hour shift? Does he do as much work in 1 hour and 45 minutes as the median worker does in an entire year of full-time work? I think not...
 
But this is all woefully off-topic....

Scaling is a thing, even when using HD ready TV. 😄 Scaling is performed either on monitor or gpu.

Lol really?
So we live to have them earn stuff? Oh hell naw.

They are there becuse they CAN make money. Doesnt mean they have to.
 
Companies lie and steal, their management making huge bucks of people jsut getting by.
No companies deserve no remourse, they need to be kept in check. The consumer is whats important.
If a consumer complains its the company either making bad stuff or not explaining clearly enough how it works.

But then again to be honest, there are people that are just too stupid to understand anyhting.
So yeah what do i know... 😄

Complete agree. Please understand that all I am asking for right now is if I select 720p resolution which the max of my TV I must be able to enjoy 720p at its fullest. Why that's not happening ? Why I have to waste bandwidth streaming 1080p content on a 720p TV ? Ans: Low Bitrate.
 
 

Yup just to bad talk about piracy is illegal.
So i cant say thats the only way still left to get high quality content without having to own physical media... 😄

So i wont be saying any of this.

Yes I have seen 4K on large screens. The electronics shops put those on display to attract buyer but they use Bluray. The average customer sees it & says wow without knowing that he will never see that kind of picture quality under any streaming service.
 
Companies will spend billions if they see an opportunity for profit.
 
The technology already exists. I mean higher bitrate videos exist it just that no one wants will want to invest unless some competitor does it first. If there is even one new streaming service launched all the rest will follow. These people are quite predictable. All they think of is money.

Check this, cant tell me this is placebo...
https://imgur.com/a/xDPZFnO

Yep. Marketing has sold the general public that resolution is king. However, Streaming companies want to be able to say "we  have 4k" but also deliver service to as many people as possible. Given that internet packages in the west can range from 10mbps to several gbps, they just compress the fuck out of it so that the experience is mostly the same for everyone.
 
It COULD get better though. As technology improves, compression routines and techniques do get better allowing for higher compressed videos that don't los as much data in the compression. H264 is the standard now, but H265 is promising for a lot of content as it can compress even further.
 
Plus as more high speed internet becomes available, it's possible t hat these services eventually start offering higher bitrate offerings, like we've seen now with a few of the music streaming services.

Yeah, best 4K ive seen yet on my 1080p monitor. 😄

https://www.floatplane.com/discover

compressed and high quality does not exclude one another.
afaik Amazon does have the highest bitrates, which is what you want. Giving the best picture quality.

But if you want uncompressed you better have several gigabit internet hahaha, Specialy anyhting above 1080p.......

And for the most part video's looking better is because of the bitrate.
Why i watch 4K on my 1080p monitor. Everything is way sharper. Pauzing the video also results in way better looking picture.
 
Lol yeah that wont happen, the masses have no clue what bit-rate even means.
They are only interested in those marketing things like 4K , HDR and DOLBY.