Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Huge Win For Potato Repair Enthusiasts”.
Nokia Hypes their super fixable phone. I haven’t gotten a chance to have a look at this yet but uh pocket lint has uh has an article about this. Let’S go have a look. It’S pretty low spec, like I think, describing it as entry level is definitely accurate.
I will say, though, that we’re in an era of phones where I don’t think that’s actually going to bother that many people – it’s it’s pretty low spec. I just saw it okay. I was hoping for a little more than that, buddy immediately backtracks um.
I got down to the display and Hardware section: I was just like recycled plastic, rear ip52 protection. Let’S talk about the specs a little bit: 6.5 inch 1600 by 720, pixels, 90 Hertz refresh rate. You know what is that a longer conversation here? Would you rather have 1080p at 60, hertz or 720p at 90., with how I currently use my phone honestly 720 at 90., really yeah? I think so, because it’s almost all like text communication – I don’t it doesn’t need to be. I don’t care yeah, but it’s not Sharp, like 720.
The difference between 720p and 1080 is a lot bigger than the difference between 1080 and 1440.. This is gon na be a first world problem. I haven’t experienced 720 on a phone in a hot minute yeah. It’S so maybe I don’t know not great yeah, but then 90 Hertz really does make things feel more responsive. Even when you’re dealing with slower Hardware, usually text communication, my phone – I just I’m just trying to go fast, like yeah yeah, and it feels feels better when you’re typing um yeah, that’s uh, that’s a tough one.
Anyway, sorry, you were telling the specs uh yeah unit. Soc t606: four gigs of RAM 64 or 128 gigs of storage, plus a Micro SD slot. Thank you, uh.
What the heck is a t606 I’m looking this up: tiger t606 processor entry level, octa-core SOC with two arm a75s at up to 1.6 gigahertz, blazing speeds and six efficient, a55 chords that cores it up to 1.6. That is not a fast chip. Nope! Okay, Carry On 50 milliamp hour battery. That’S a big battery! This thing will last for like three days on battery, though 20 watts charging. Okay, that’s fine! It will take a while to charge that big battery at 20 watts, though um. I don’t really mind that if it’s a huge battery it takes long to charge, I feel like it might just extend the life of it because you’re going to sit there with it plugged in 100, less often yeah. I guess that’s fair with my usage. I wouldn’t mind that personally, I’m trying to find any sort of we deserve a poll. You deserve nothing, I’m trying to find any insight into what exactly makes it repairable. So some of the ease of repair. Apparently, oh, oh here we go here. We go uh a new battery and all the tools. Okay, I’m just gon na read the thing. So iFixit is partnering with Nokia on the creation of the g22s, this phone that is aiming for a price of 170 dollars, which is a lot more reasonable uh for the spec and compared to some of the other, more open and repair oriented phones that we’ve seen In the past, it’s designed to be easy to use and inexpensive to repair and iFix.
It will sell repair kits for the battery display rear panel and the USBC module, which are four of the most common components to break in typical use, and they will sell them for at least five years. That’S super cool, but will it get software updates for five years uh a new battery and all the tools to replace it will cost you 30 US Dollars, and it should take about 10 to 15 minutes for a typical user to complete the repair. The most expensive part is apparently the touch screen at 55. by the time you’re spending 55 on a touch screen.
Couldn’T it be 65 and be 1080p. I got ta kind of. I got to kind of wonder about that. A little bit yeah um, some of the ease of repair, comes from the fact that this is an inexpensive phone with inexpensive parts and that ease of disassembly has a direct trade-off with modern waterproofing measures.
However, Nokia has genuinely eliminated several barriers to removing the back of the device and it retains its ip52 waterproof rating even after the back has been replaced. So ip52 is not watertight, but it can take the odd accidental spray of water they’re only providing three years of security and operating system updates. So, even though you can get parts for five it’s three years and I got ta, imagine that three years is from launch yeah not from when you buy it so not from when they stop selling it um man I’d love to see an actual, compelling, repairable phone, Because, on the one hand, I want to look at this and go progress, but on the other hand, I’m looking at it going. This is this is like this is like a half measure right yeah. This is like coming out and being like um, no, but yeah.
We made a repairable phone and nobody wanted it so clearly the market has chosen non-repairable phones, no, the market chose the only options that it actually has, and I don’t know that for a lot of people, this is a truly viable option. What what minimum spec would it need to be for you to think it would be a viable option? Man, you know, I would have said something like note 9, but I’ve been using it lately, just to listen to uh music when I’m uh riding on my bike and it’s it’s slowed down. Um I’d say: there’s some arguments that people might make about planned obsolescent stuff that doesn’t have to do with the actual speeds and feeds of the device, but more has to do with like different certain updates that might actually intentionally slow it down from the manufacturer side. Ours, Technica apparently ripped into it. It’S 39 steps to replace the screen see. This is what I’m talking about like that. Doesn’T need to be the case. I yeah. Why doesn’t it just use screws? You need to hold the back panel on like. Why does why? Does everything need to be clips and and clips and glue, and I don’t remember what your question was: I’m sorry, what what would be right, I would say if it’s three-year-old Flagship tier performance, I would consider that to be more than acceptable, but I feel like phones, Like computers have gotten to the point where a um the improvements generation over generation are not that big anymore, meaning that you can use three-year-old Hardware, you know really really easily and have a really great experience with it, but also B.
It means that the value of that three-year-old Hardware isn’t dropping the way it used to yeah. Like you look at the way, PC Hardware is plummeting right now: generation over generation in terms of of price, like you can get ryzen 2000 stuff on eBay for like nothing, ryzen 3000, very reasonable um. For a long time there when intel was releasing quad core after quad car after quad core, you know, the 7700k comes out and 4770ks are like ten dollars cheaper on eBay. You know 3770ks or maybe 25 cheaper on eBay, and I feel like we’re seeing that with phones right, like they’re, not dropping in value quite as fast yeah within the software update period, because that’s a different kind of obsolescence. I, like basically didn’t even realize how old my phone was yeah.
I only thought about it recently but, like I don’t it doesn’t affect me. The battery is still an okay enough state that it lasts a day, so I just charge it at night, whatever it’s not the most efficient way, because it hits 100 and sits there for a bit and stuff like that. But it’s old, I’m not that worried about it at this point stuff like that um, but like it’s fine yeah, I have some problems. It had a lot more problems when I first got it, but it received software updates and it fixed a lot of those problems, and now it’s just like I don’t know, I used what like slack teams and Discord, that’s like 90 of what I’m doing on it.
The the rest of it is like reading news or whatever yeah like it, doesn’t need to be super powerful. For my use case sure, maybe some other people are doing more complicated things with phones, but not me, so I don’t really care that much. But I do like get really frustrated the second it like slows down, because I’m very often trying to do quick tasks since when a message replies something really quick and if it like chugs. While doing that, I do get frustrated. So there is like a minimum level of performance yeah that I want it to be. I doubt that this would be. This is too low. Yeah yeah .