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Thanks, Trump tariffs, now I gotta replace my phone battery | Hard to repair phones are inexcusable now.

Bring back the iPhone Mini, cowards!

Unlike the jumbo phones I see everywhere, the Mini is sized so that I can actually hold it in my hand and — since I don’t usually carry a purse — fit it in the regrettably inferior pockets of a pair of women’s pants. It’s only recently and begrudgingly started to allow independent repair to its devices, and even so it’s thrown up barriers like “parts pairing,” which means that if you swap out some of its components, certain phone functions no longer work. After seeing Port of Los Angeles executive director Gene Seroka tell Bloomberg News about the steep drop in imports, I knew I needed to make a phone decision sooner rather than later.

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