Let's face the facts - things break through. Brake lines, plumbing, computers, basins and the occasional guitar string be repaired and even replaced - http://Www.Wikipedia.org/wiki/replaced every once in awhile. With anything you buy, there is a period electricity that you can expect it to last. With cell phones, that period is typically about 2 yrs - with ever increasing technology and the consumer's insatiable desire to continuously enhance it, there is absolutely no sense in designing a phone that will survive into the next thousands of years.