“I didn’t do anything to deserve this. The phone sat on my desk while I wrote about it, and I would occasionally stop to poke the screen, take a screenshot, or open and close it. It was never dropped or exposed to a significant amount of grit, nor had it gone through the years of normal wear and tear that phones are expected to survive. This was the lightest possible usage of a phone, and it still broke.”

This can happen to any phone of course — there are numerous threads on reddit of faulty S23 phones that are only days old, and of course the first Galaxy fold phones were problematic — but still. Rough start!

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    I’ve never really liked tablets - I much prefer a real computer. That probably explains our disconnect.

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      My single tablet use case is ebooks. I despise the ugly “e-ink” readers and love the simplicity of a cheap tablet. It’s really the only way to read in any situation because reading from even a small laptop is inconvenient in the places I read in.

      Of course, my smartphone use case isn’t that big – emergency calls/texts, typing out grocery lists, and portable storage. I have a simple talk/text plan, no mobile data. Never understood the need for one. In an absolute need, I can seek out somewhere with wifi and use that, but I don’t really even do that. Just never been a smartphone guy. Wish payphones and pagers were still around so I could ditch mobile phones completely.

      Computers are still so far ahead of any mobile device in usability and convenience that it’s not worth using mobile devices casually.

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        My single tablet use case is ebooks. I despise the ugly “e-ink” readers and love the simplicity of a cheap tablet.

        Dang, you’ve got eyes of steel. I could never read books on an LED screen - the eyestrain is just too much. E-ink doesn’t have that issue.

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          I don’t get that, really. I get eyestrain from e-ink. It’s just so hard to read because of the way it looks. Reading on a tablet is just like anything else. Also, you should know that using a tablet isn’t like reading a piece of paper – it emits light, rather than absorbing it. Dark mode is your friend. I think that’s people’s problems trying to read on a tablet, they don’t use dark mode and end up staring into a bright light for hours on end.

          Dark mode should be the natural, default state on all computers, tablets, smartphones, etc. You’re goinjg to ruin your eyes staring into a white screen.