I just got a new phone. Well, it's new to me anyway. I'm not overly excited about it because I hate switching to a new phone, and I feel like my old one let me down because it was broken. I know I'm not the only one who feels this way sometimes, and it really highlights a really important factor when it comes to buying a new phone: repairability.
Long story short — my Pixel 6 Pro now lives in a drawer, and I have a Pixel 7 Pro instead. It had been giving me problems for a while because the socket where a cable connects to the mainboard wouldn't stay connected properly. Between that and the volume rocker breaking (my fault; I broke it tearing the phone apart), I was just done. I'm lucky, and we have phones here at AC, so I just swapped my old one for a slightly less old one.
