I prefer to mod my phones with custom roms

hard to do that with chink phones I've found

The brand name I always see come up as far as android rugged phones is DooGee

same

gives me an image of the doge meme in my head tbh

Rugged phones also seem to have fuckhuge batteries too, so if you don't mind some chunkiness in your pocket, could be cool

nice thicc phone innit

don't mind a chunky phone tbh, honestly I'm sick of anorexic phones that boast .5mm less thickness than last year, pretty stupid, they sacrifice battery life and duralibility for bragging rights

The only reason I haven't gotten a chinkphone is I can't be bothered to figure out which do and don't have the bands I need

what the hell, even the chinks are moving to non removeable batteries

Waterproofing is much easier that way

they can still do that, just use those start shaped screws

and rubber seals

so instead of a pop up cover you gotta unscrew it, not really very convineint I know but a good compromise

Meh. Chances are you'll want a new phone before the battery loses effectiveness, so nonremovable isn't that bad, at least to me

at this rate I'm going to nigger rig 4 x 18650 cells and tape it to the back of my phone

Give me a phone powered by 18650 cells

Word

I'd get a rugged phone but none have the right bands.

I'd be stuck on G2

@Matthew that would be too bulky tbh, also 18650s cells are not really space er waht's the word

efficient

@NotaJew it's the screen itself

And it's a Redmi Note 3

@Matthew my current phone is almost 7 years old at this point I had to swap out the battery, gonna swamp it again soon

*swap, plus it's nice to know if you run out you can just change batteries

@Deleted User how so?

@NotaJew

I think that would make the phones not really pocketable

sadly

why did phones shift from removable to non-removable batteries anyway?

inb4 waterproofing

sigh

to get you to buy new phones, as the batteries slowly fail and your phone shits itself from the inconsistent power supply

@Deleted User for waterproofing

@NotaJew muh planned obsolescence conspiracy

Must be real hard to suck this much dick of faceless corporations

that plus pursuit of THINN

more like larger numbers to show on the spread sheets

chasing those numbers