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Well sure, a 5 year old phone will lose most of these performance comparisons against modern phones, but will it lose badly enough for consumers to care?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I have a few old phones that still work great. Yes Google might pull their support on the phone because it has an old version of android but you can always use fdroid or side load apps.

I have a couple of old phones here. A 10 year old phone that is used as a bedside alarm and flashlight when needed. The other is a 6 year old phone that is used as a practice device of loading custom ROMs and jail breaking purposes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I use an old phone as a camera for my 3d printer as well. They can also be used to run octopi provided they have otg usb

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