A new cell phone.
For some reason, for which I accept no responsibility, the front glass of the old one has startde to fragment. Pieces got torn apart at the egdes, fine lines of discontinuity appeared all over, with potential for skin leasons when operating the device.
Admittedly the deteroritation wasn't debilitatiing (yet), but bad enough to get the necessary WAF for new one.
I ended up with an Fairphone 4
The main thing with this phone is that almost every part of it is easily replacable and they guarantee software support for a longer time than normal. This is a phone built to last. And they also have very strict rules for production, including production of the materials: using recycled materials as much as possible, and good working conditions. This is important to me.
I paid 640 EUR for it. Quite expensive (but remember these are Norwegian prices, prices are significantly higher here (so are wages)). I could definitely get a phone with better performance/functionality for that price and less. But the phone does what I need and I don't miss anything. And as said the other aspects are very important. I gladly pay what those things cost. Besides, I'm pretty sure that it's
better than my old Samsung.
And I got rid of Bizby!!!!"!
BTW: Seems like they're not marketing it in the US.
pibbuR who is now having fun (honest!!!!") transfering data (currently the 140Gb music collection) and configuring the thing. Yay!
PS. A review:
https://www.theverge.com/22716194/fairphone-4-review . DS.