[jraph]

From an environmental perspective, it makes sense to keep your current phone as long as possible.

I'd love to get rid of this thing full of proprietary stuff though.

[rchaud]

Hard to do when Apple intentionally slows down the phone with new firmware updates and Android OEMs abandon replaceable batteries for a soldered on unit whose ability to hold a charge drops off precipitously after 2 years.

[lvl4x]

I've never seen a cellphone with a soldered battery, and most of the slowdown in iPhones is caused by the OS slowing down to make up for reduced battery capacity. With apple and other manufacturers having to replace batteries in their own phones, I seriously doubt we'll ever see soldered batteries.

[wiz21c]

Same dilemma for me. But I think environment priority is more important because freedom can't exist without environment. (now, it just could happen that my current phone breaks for a very unfortunate, totally unplanned, "accident" :-))

[swiley]

Making the moral decision requires freedom.

Look at where the modern PC ecosystem is right now with windows: huge chunks of unusable plastic,fiberglass, and metal with serious software flaws that turn them into useless trash shortly after people buy them. When the community (much less, the individual consumer) can’t deal with broken software that’s tied to their (unupgradable) hardware it all just accumulates in landfills. People accept that you have to buy new phones and laptops every couple years because they have no other practical choice.

I’m not sure I could say one should have a higher priority than the other, in fact I’m almost certain I could say they can’t.

[michaelmrose]

If you sell or give away your current device to someone who would have bought a new phone you aren't adding to waste.

[jimhefferon]

> From an environmental perspective

You don't have to toss it, you could sell it.