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Mon Jan 18, 2021, 05:49 PM

Autumn (40,287 posts)

26. Here.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3599141/apples-iphone-slowdown-ploy-was-ridiculous-even-by-apple-standards.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51413724#:~:text=It%20said%20the%20lithium%2Dion,to%20protect%20its%20electronic%20components.

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32 replies	Author	Time	Post
Does anybody else out there think that maybe our cell phones have planned [View all]	raccoon	Jan 2021	OP
I know it is a fact with the battery.	onecaliberal	Jan 2021	#1
What kind of weird things?	MineralMan	Jan 2021	#2
Phone crashed for first time not long ago.	raccoon	Jan 2021	#7
Again, what kind of phone? What model?	MineralMan	Jan 2021	#10
iPhone 8 Plus. Nt	raccoon	Jan 2021	#29
Yes- I love my iPhone 6 and when 11 was introduced...	lisa58	Jan 2021	#3
That's why I buy a 150 dollar Consumer Cellular phone.	sarcasmo	Jan 2021	#4
My Phone Is Around The Same Age	ProfessorGAC	Jan 2021	#5
There is no think about it, they do have planned obsolescence	Johnny2X2X	Jan 2021	#6
Absolutely, that is why batteries are no longer replaceable.	whttevrr	Jan 2021	#8
Most things - appliances, cars, electronics - have built-in obsolescence....	Sogo	Jan 2021	#9
They can easily create obsolescence later.	Buckeye_Democrat	Jan 2021	#11
Iphones built the battery to fail so people would buy new ones. I decided then	Autumn	Jan 2021	#12
That not true	FreeState	Jan 2021	#21
Here.	Autumn	Jan 2021	#26
Sometimes my iPhone rings for no reason. Nothing appears on the screen and no incoming calls show	mobeau69	Jan 2021	#13
Phones suck. The Android OS, for example, on my phone can be updated	DonaldsRump	Jan 2021	#14
1st, try restarting.	maxsolomon	Jan 2021	#15
Tried that. Nt	raccoon	Jan 2021	#30
My galaxy s9 started messing up on different things about a month before I was done paying for it.	Doreen	Jan 2021	#16
Yes.	grumpyduck	Jan 2021	#17
I have a very old phone, android 4.4. Still works just fine. But	Pobeka	Jan 2021	#18
Apple has paid fines.	moondust	Jan 2021	#19
hmmm. My decades old flip phone still works fine. nt	Binkie The Clown	Jan 2021	#20
You beat me to it.	Chainfire	Jan 2021	#22
Yup. We consumers have a choice and I chose to go with 3G flip phones for me and my son. They	abqtommy	Jan 2021	#24
My old Jitterbug just dances right along just fine.	monmouth4	Jan 2021	#23
Every manufactured product has planned obsolescence built into the design	tymorial	Jan 2021	#25
It used to be 2 years. They are doing better.	leftyladyfrommo	Jan 2021	#27
No, but unless you further believe that EVERY Cell phone maker is doing this...	brooklynite	Jan 2021	#28
Of course they do.	Iggo	Jan 2021	#31
I have a Nokia. 10% of the time when I answer the phone the other person can not hear me.	marie999	Jan 2021	#32

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