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🥢 ionchy 🏳️‍🌈@ionchy7/4/2023, 8:12 PM

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Tom (tired of the computer)@masklayer7/4/2023, 7:15 PM

Re: Phones should be built like the Lumia 1020 - I posted about this before but I love it so I have to say it again

To remove/replace the display assembly you have to open the sim door and loosen one captive screw, and pry on one corner a little to pop it out.
There's no glue.

The whole phone looks and feels completely seamless, but still comes apart easily because it's all held shut with clips on the display assembly which lock into a sliding rail which is moved by that one captive screw hidden inside the sim card slot.

The tradeoff is that it's a little thick, which isn't trendy, but it's such a nice shape to hold that I can't imagine anyone picking one up and thinking of that as a negative. Idk. Incredible design

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Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev7/4/2023, 7:20 PM

Huge agree on thickness being a good thing. My past few phones have all felt so thin and slippery naked, but as soon as you put on a grippy overbuilt third party case they feel SO GOOD all of a sudden

Ξ @exerian7/4/2023, 7:28 PM

does windows crash as often on a phone as it does on an actual computer?

Tom (tired of the computer)@masklayer7/4/2023, 7:44 PM

Depends

BS to the P, A R K to the S @cdi7/4/2023, 7:50 PM

It's a gorgeous phone, for sure. But the lack of any IP rating caused concern for me a decade ago, and still does.

Tom (tired of the computer)@masklayer7/4/2023, 7:54 PM

Yeah true and I don’t think there’s any good way to compromise to achieve those two goals (waterproof, no glue easy disassembly). But also the only waterproof phone I’ve ever owned died the first time I accidentally went swimming with it because the sim slot just randomly opened, so. Eh

BS to the P, A R K to the S @cdi7/4/2023, 8:51 PM

Mine usually get caught in the rain. But I totally get it.

I wonder, because current phones use the gasket and adhesive as the only binder for the screen, if you could still do the captive screw and just need a less rugged gasket and such?

Tom (tired of the computer)@masklayer7/4/2023, 8:53 PM

Yeah I bet they could do something with gaskets and still make it repairable yeah. Like Casio f91w gasket

BS to the P, A R K to the S @cdi7/4/2023, 8:55 PM

Knowing companies we'd end up with a Casio AT-552 situation and the gasket fouls just a fraction and the touchscreen just doesn't work anymore.

Zuthal @Zuthal7/5/2023, 7:05 AM

Realistically, if you are a bit careful, the only IP rating a phone really needs is x3 or x4 at most, you are not supposed to immerse it in water. And that I think should be achievable with gaskets without needing to glue everything together.

Plum @plumpan7/4/2023, 7:50 PM

Here's to the EU bringing this back by force :flag_eu:

walking mirage @atomicthumbs7/4/2023, 10:08 PM

i can't fucking believe it's 2023 and we haven't had any more phones with a strobe

Pokey @tercel-enby7/4/2023, 11:56 PM

god you can get these for like $60-$70 and Im being so tempted to get into Neat Old Phone collecting.

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