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Provience said:
Moto g power 2025 version

Works well, same size batteries as everything else but seems to last for a good bit.

Serviceable. Removable sim, dual sim if you need it, removable SD card
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What I have. I bought one independently and put it on my Verizon account myself to save myself activation fees.
 
Instead of a swapable battery, how about a phone with inductive wireless charging (pretty common these days) and a magnetic battery pack?

Example: https://www.amazon.com/Anker-PowerCore-Magnetic-Slim-B2C/dp/B099284SRR


Jewels is still rocking an iPhone 13 Mini and refuses to upgrade because that was the last Mini. It's showing its age with battery life. She's been mostly satisfied with the addition of the magnetic battery pack.
 
SomeGuy said:
Not sure if you've looked at memory prices lately, but a 2TB sd is like $400+ now. They're not cheaper now lol

File transfers don't take forever anymore with usb-c and faster flash memory, you can easily get 100-200mb/s transfer speeds off these phones.

Charging takes like a half hour now to add a day or two of charge, we're not charging at 5 watts anymore, these phones will do 30-40 watt charging.

Like I've said, all the problems you think you're solving by buying a unicorn fossil phone, are already solved by most modern cell phones.
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The work phone is a S24, it takes around 3hrs to charge as well.
It lasts for a few days, but it's strictly used as a phone. Has nothing else on it.
 
Elwenil said:
I'm thinking that maybe technology is just not for you. Have you considered a record player? Pen and paper? Abacus? Smoke signals?
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I'm fine with this phone, just the stupid programs aren't.
Still running Windows XP on my desktop.
 
I have a bunch of these
they are handy


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AKnate said:
The work phone is a S24, it takes around 3hrs to charge as well.
It lasts for a few days, but it's strictly used as a phone. Has nothing else on it.
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Same as my DD. I've got a wireless charger by my bed, another on my bench at work, and one in my Jeep. Never an issue.
 
AKnate said:
Dunno, been using these phones for probably 10 years. Get 2-3 years out of one.
Only complaint is the camera needs like 3x zoom to look as if my eye is seeing it, but that might be something on most phones too.
Like take a photo of the mtns from my yard and it looks WAYYYY far away.

Edit... internet claims the phone only came out in 2020?
No idea how that's possible, I wrote when I got batteries and one is from 2017.
This is the 4th one, no way I killed 3 in just 6 years... usually get 2-3 years out of 1.
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Batteries degrade over time. Phones slow down and use more power when you have more apps running in the background. Old phones get slower when they start trying to run newer, more processor intensive software that they weren't designed for. If you're running batteries from 2017 or even 2020, they're **** and that's why you're only getting a few hours out of them.

A new phone will last a full day on a charge unless you're doing something where the screen is on for hours on end. Just streaming to bluetooth or whatever? No problem. And with a higher wattage charger, my pixel will go from 5% to 80% in about 20 minutes. And wireless charging is also a thing. Put a charger on your bench and drop your phone on it whenever you're not using it.


You're a victim of your own lack of understanding of technology.
 
Ksand said:
They're going to track as soon as its turned on
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And the AirTag and similar trackers are super low power usage with built-in power supplies and are built-in to a lot of phones by default.

AKnate said:
They don't last anything like that.
Watched 1 movie last night and maybe an hr or so of random youtubes and it's at 40% this morning.
Barely have cell signal here, usually 1-2 bars, have to go outside to make calls and sometimes that doesn't work enough.
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Do you have WiFi there? Does your phone carrier offer WiFi calling?
 
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