throwaway2037 2 hours ago

    > My Samsung Galaxy S8 died at 7 years.

Yikes, that is a long time! How many times did you fix it (screen or battery)?

▲ TheScaryOne 36 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Never. I am very gentle to my phones. Thing has one small dot of a scratch on the screen. Never been opened.

▲ close04 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I just replaced my OnePlus 5 a couple of months ago at over 8.5 years old. No repairs needed, battery was a bit crippled in active use, especially making calls, but fine for a mostly idling phone. In idle it still lasts longer than a 1.5 year old iPhone 15. I still use it for by backup phone number SIM, as it slowly gets to ~9 years old.

The bigger issue was no more OS updates since 2020, and no Play updates since 2023. The battery can be replaced but getting a fully updated OS is more involved.

	▲	zozbot234 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		OnePlus 5 runs great with custom ROMs, including potentially ones based on mainline Linux as opposed to AOSP. (The Linux support is not as good as OP 6/6T but getting there pretty nicely.)