Newsgroups: comp.mobile.ipad,
comp.mobile.android,alt.home.repair
Not a real friendly cross post, is it? Supports those claims that you
are a troll. I've trimmed it.
In
comp.mobile.android, Harold Newton <
har...@example.com> wrote:
> My phone is still going strong at 6 years, so I was just wondering what
> YOUR phone hardware total cost of ownership is over the past five years?
Late 2006 to late 2013: Audiovox CDM-8915. Practically indestructable.
It still worked, but battery life was fairly short, when I stopped using
it. I never purchased any accessories, cases, replacement parts for it
at all. Probably cost $50 new in 2005, but certainly less than $100.
TCOO: $7 to $14 per year (~ $1 per month)
Late 2013 to mid 2016: Samsung Convoy 2 (SCH-U660). I never purchased any
accessories, cases, replacement parts for it at all. Probably cost $200 new
in 2013. Still (mostly) worked when I stopped using it, but I never
liked that phone much.
TCOO: $66 per year ($16 per month)
Mid 2016 to present: Cat S60. I have not yet purchased any accessories,
cases, replacement parts etc for this; EXCEPTING a single 64GB microSD
card I put in it on day one. Phone was $600, I don't recall what the SD
card cost, probably ~$30 since I usually won't purchase thumbdrives / SD
cards more than that much (small things are too easy to lose). I don't
expect to replace this phone or any parts in 2018. If I keep it until
mid 2019: TCOO will be $210 per year.
> We should cover:
> 4. Useful items (e.g., courageous non-3.5mm earbuds, SD/SIM cards, etc.)
"Courageous" is an interesting term. Presumably you include all
bluetooth in that, and the courage is to face down Harold Bluetooth,
the Danish king whose name was borrowed for the tech.
> It would interesting to see your total cost of ownership over 5 years.
My pockets are not a friendly place for electronics. I carried point and
shoot cameras for 15+ years, and would get ~2 years out of them before
they were destroyed. That's why I've gravitated towards rugged phones.
I'll be happy if I get 5 years out of this one, but given battery
lifetimes, I'm not expecting it.
I certainly paid a premium for the ruggedness of this phone, but the
built-in FLIR was very enticing for me, and I don't regret it. The CAT
S60 cost more than my last two laptops put together. (Just barely more.)
I look for ~$300 / year in laptop costs. What I want in a laptop is
small and cheap enough to not worry if it breaks. What I want in a phone
is Don't Break, even if dropped or submerged.
Elijah
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does not use headphones wired or not