I'm a stickler for a headphone jack so I just replaced the battery in my 4a instead of buying a new one. Not sure how to proceed with the EOL security updates but Lineage is always an option. If they would just release a phone with a headphone jack I'd have a new phone next week.

I'm using a Samsung Galaxy S10 for over three years now and I don't see a reason why I should get a new one anytime soon.

So divert the flow to africa maybe? where they do not have smart phones yet? Oh -- they do not have electricity networks there, so maybe sell them with solar chargers.

I did upgrade my phone this year... to an iPhone 13, which I can pay a few dollars a month to AT&T for. And I only did that because my XR's battery was dying. I would have been fine to keep it indefinitely. I see no good reason to upgrade and really, the only reason I had to was built-in obsolescence. A 5-year-old phone should not have a battery that goes to shit. Maybe 10 years old.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Canalys has some gruesome new numbers out for the North American smartphone market in Q2 2023, detailing what it's calling the "worst quarterly performance for over a decade."

Only a single company survived this quarter unscathed, and it's actually Google!

The biggest loss on the chart is actually "others," down 43 percent, likely representing the further consolidation of the Android market.

Canalys explains some of this by saying the low-end market "will continue to struggle as prepaid demand dwindles."

Despite the overall losses, Canalys says, "Apple and Samsung boosted their premium segment shipments with 25% and 23% growth respectively in Q2 2023."

Canalys expects a bit of a recovery in 2024, where it's projecting a 3 percent increase.

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Oops, theu made last year's phones too good.

Watch the planned obsele

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