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Originally Posted by petermillard
One benefit of having no battery compartment or card slots is that the case can be sealed far more effectively; pre-iPhone my mobile phones had to be regularly stripped apart and cleaned out because of dust ingress through working on building sites, and in my company we lost a couple of phones/SIM cards a year due to damage cause by dust alone.
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Now here we have a real argument. Though now I can offer my personal "anecdotal evidence". I have traveled the back roads of Vietnam's countryside many times a year on motorcycles for over 10 years (you can't get much dustier than that) and never had to replace a phone, never even cleaned the inside of one. Seems they are not very susceptible to dust damage.
Besides, the SIM must always be in a slot where it can be removed? So SIM damage should still be happening, if that was the real problem.