thelionroars wrote:
The flash memory in phones only lasts 5 years of use, so the value of any smart phone value after 5 years is effectively $0, unless you're a gun with a soldering iron.
I have on occassion "fired up the iron'; but am also aware that 20ms too much heat and the tracks lift ! Can also report that the ZTE F165 NextG has operated faultlessly since: 28 th Jan 2008 ;when Telstra made it clear that CDMA was absolutely, unconditionally, irrefutably and undeniably going to shutdown tomorrow; and the sky would fall in if I hadn't acquired a new phone.! Of course I was somewhat blaise by this time as they had been promising this; for the previous 6 months by this stage and nothing had happened !. So what behavior should I be seeing if the flash memory on the ZTE F165; has been dying for the last two years ? regards Rohan McLeod