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How does everyone here feel about foldable phones?
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What I want a phone to be:
Basically everything a foldable phone isn't.
Yea those two are a bit tough to find together on a phone. I mean you have fairphones which are very repairable, but it's only splash resistant, not submerge resistant.
But I found this phone called Nokia XR21 which is $499 and is has IP rating of IP68/IP69K and it's build as a rugged phone which is very resistant to drops. 6.49 inch display and has a 3.5mm headphone jack! No removable battery tho. It has 3 years of OS updates and 4 years of monthly security updates. Personally this phone looks great to me, but this is a midrange and they don't make flagships so I went with a Samsung Galaxy S23.
I have a Ulefone Armor 3W . It's MIL-STD-810: built like a tank and waterproof. And that ain't no marketing: I dropped that thing on the road while riding my bike so many times, and it just doesn't care. And I use it regularly to take photos underwater. It's fairly repairable too: it's held together with a truckload of little Torx screws, but once they're all out, the innards are easily accessible - and from what I can see, the battery easily replaceable.
My only problem with that thing is, it's not deGoogled. And it's Ulefone, so there's a non-zero chance that it's running Chinese spyware too.
So I retired it, much to my chagrin, and I'm currently rocking a Fairphone 4 running CalyxOS. I'm a bit more careful not to drop that one, and I can live without the waterproofness. Small price to pay to free myself from Google's corporate surveillance to some extent.