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Question about phones: Am I overreacting?
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2012 was 11 years ago, so out of curiosity: do you still have the same smartphone, and why are you still using one if it hasn't improved your life?
Truth be told I have a Motorola Droid running Android 1 and if all you need is a phone with some email and sms texting it works fantastic. Even has a physical keyboard.
I'm not even going to ask when the last security update came out 🤣
Lol, yeah that's an issue.
No at some point they become uselessly slow or won't receive necessary updates. Like even some dumb chat app requires a ton of resources. And I've also had an iPhone that worked just fine until there was an update. After that it wasn't practical to use any more and I switched back to android.
I've had 4. And I've used each one until it was completely useless.
I bought 2 of those 4 for my work. I do vr/ar and some clients require ar on the phone or tablet. And I needed one of them when I had an Airbnb, because you need the app for that. The again you can replace that with android running on a pi or sum.