Can I use my phone indefinitely by just replacing the battery every year?

[Admiré]

I have a galaxy s8 and I am very happy with it so far. Battery life is a bit worse now since I bought it but it is still WORLDS better than the phone I had before (galaxy alpha). We all know that phone batteries will die eventually and that we need to replace them when this happens. This got me thinking. Can I just keep on replacing the battery of my phone every 2 years or so and just use it for as long as possible? I know that other parts can degrade like the flash memory and the processor, but is it possible to keep the phone working for, lets say 5-6 years? The reason I'm asking isnt just because I'm a greedy bastard, but because I'm so used to seeing people having the same gaming pc for like 7-8 years and it works completely fine. I'm just curious since I'm happy with this phone and I dont see any reason to buy a new one yet. 

[AnonymousGuy]

There's still people using iPhone 5's from 2012.

[GoldenLag]

My Iphone 4 is still operating just fine.

 

You can probably hold of replacing the battery to 5-6 years after purschase and then every 2-5 years depending how good batteries you get.

 

In theory you can keep using it for a veeery long time

 

(Note: all phones i have owned still technically work just fine (includes generic nokia button phone, iphone 4, lumia 640 and Huawei Mate 9 Pro. This is ik chronological order))

Edited August 8, 2018 by GoldenLag

[TheGermanEngie]

9 minutes ago, Admiré said:

I have a galaxy s8 and I am very happy with it so far. Battery life is a bit worse now since I bought it but it is still WORLDS better than the phone I had before (galaxy alpha). We all know that phone batteries will die eventually and that we need to replace them when this happens. This got me thinking. Can I just keep on replacing the battery of my phone every 2 years or so and just use it for as long as possible? I know that other parts can degrade like the flash memory and the processor, but is it possible to keep the phone working for, lets say 5-6 years? The reason I'm asking isnt just because I'm a greedy bastard, but because I'm so used to seeing people having the same gaming pc for like 7-8 years and it works completely fine. I'm just curious since I'm happy with this phone and I dont see any reason to buy a new one yet. 

I would say yes, you most likely could get 5-6 years if the phone is reliable. Just remember everything fails sooner or later. It's kind of like what people do with custom ROMs on older phones so they can get the latest version of Android, increase battery life, storage, etc instead of being stuck on older versions of Android. But yeah it's possible.

[orbitalbuzzsaw]

The battery is not replaceable as far as I know so it might be possible if you're a Samsung technician but not really worth it IMO

[TheGermanEngie]

1 minute ago, GoldenLag said:

My Iphone 4 is still operating just fine.

 

You can probably hold of replacing the battery to 5-6 years after purschase and then every 2-5 years depending how good batteries you get.

 

In theory you can keep using it for a veeery long time

One time I had to use my old 4s for a week since my main phone was damaged. People at my high school made fun of me but it worked fine for basic tasks. That phone is bulletproof.

[GoldenLag]

1 minute ago, TheGermanEngie said:

One time I had to use my old 4s for a week since my main phone was damaged. People at my high school made fun of me but it worked fine for basic tasks. That phone is bulletproof.

People shrugged at my Lumia 640 that cost me 160$.

 

That thing had good old protective dissasembly, replacable battery and expandable storage. Only downside was windows 8/10 OS (negated by a Android Rom) and the fact you couldnt have more than 6 pages open in internet explorer at the time. If you had 7 it would delete one when you reopened the browser

 

Old phones just seem like lethal indestructible bricks.