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Now this is nice. Hopefully 3rd party manufacturers can also provide a longer life span for the device.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What 11 year old phone is still getting manufacturer updates?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're not getting security updates then any savings may well be a false economy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you've got a device with zero vulnerabilities which will never have any discovered then whoever made it is in need of a Nobel prize

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was going to post something dismissive about an air-gapped phone being pretty useless, then I remembered I have an old Xperia Play which I repurposed as a dedicated emulator