Sure they will, just sign on this dotted line and you’ll pay monthly. Give us your previous $1.5k phone and we will give you credits on your bill every month, but that credit will disappear if you change anything about your plan or want a new phone.

Oh wait.

Actually, with resources getting scarce, we should already get comfortable with the idea that a phone should be expensive, and be repairable enough to last for many years!

• Oneplus One: mine lasted 11years, I had passed it down to my kid. I changed the charging connector once.
• Oneplus 5T: lasted 6 years
• Now Pixel 8a: currently one year, but I already had to get the battery replaced after 6 months :/