There’s some good point’s here, even the articles author seems to have doubt’s as to the validity of such devices where updates are concerned.
Putting all those aside for a moment, to me the silver lining is the ability to easily swap out a failing battery or charging port, especially if your a ham-fisted user who regularly rams the connection in. I’ve had no end of these fail over the years and more often than not, simply disposed of the device.
The other thing I miss from back in the day was the ability to disconnect the battery when a device gets frozen, it’s not resolving the underling issue but a great way to get things up and running again.
I’ve kinda been doing this for a while now, with the help of the floating overlays App, although the availability of supported floating Apps is limited at the moment.
Playstore Link :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.applay.overlay