New phone or replace screen
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I'm not going to bother with the back story because cracked displays are all too common. Phone is usable, minimal cracks in a corner but one clean one that goes from bottom right to middle left. Usually doesn't see it but from some angles or depending on colour on lightning it does show. It's going to cost 250€ to get this little mistake fixed... or a brand new s7 for 500€. Live with it (haven't dared to try and see how it impacts VR), repair or get a new? Or chuck it all to hell and just stick to smoke signals?
Or you can buy a PHONE instead of a toy. Nokia 3310 – the original mobile phone, updated | Nokia Phones[^]Battery standby for up to a month and you can play the classic Snake. Plus you can use it as a hammer.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Or you can buy a PHONE instead of a toy. Nokia 3310 – the original mobile phone, updated | Nokia Phones[^]Battery standby for up to a month and you can play the classic Snake. Plus you can use it as a hammer.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
you just took the words right out of my keyboard.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I'm not going to bother with the back story because cracked displays are all too common. Phone is usable, minimal cracks in a corner but one clean one that goes from bottom right to middle left. Usually doesn't see it but from some angles or depending on colour on lightning it does show. It's going to cost 250€ to get this little mistake fixed... or a brand new s7 for 500€. Live with it (haven't dared to try and see how it impacts VR), repair or get a new? Or chuck it all to hell and just stick to smoke signals?
My current phone is a BLU phone. It was $110 shipped from Amazon. While it isn't the fastest (and I often curse the speed), it does almost everything the S7 does and if it breaks, I can buy another before I come close to the price of the high end ones. While there are drawbacks, they have features that many other phones don't offer. You can put in 2 sim cards (no need to 2 devices if work requires you to have one). Generally great battery life. Cheap isn't always bad.
Hogan
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My current phone is a BLU phone. It was $110 shipped from Amazon. While it isn't the fastest (and I often curse the speed), it does almost everything the S7 does and if it breaks, I can buy another before I come close to the price of the high end ones. While there are drawbacks, they have features that many other phones don't offer. You can put in 2 sim cards (no need to 2 devices if work requires you to have one). Generally great battery life. Cheap isn't always bad.
Hogan
I have an LG Stylo a similar price and it is near enough without the price tag!
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That's probably about 500€ more than me in the same period! :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Said the one with the Wookietab ;P
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF * GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X * Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game. * I'm a puny punmaker.
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Said the one with the Wookietab ;P
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF * GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X * Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game. * I'm a puny punmaker.
That doesn't have any phone hardware!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hold on. You've been Heaven-sent opportunity an to buy a new phone, and you haven't capitalised on it, yet? What's keeping you, man? Get down to the shop* NOW! * Or go here[^]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark_Wallace wrote:
* Or go here[^]
Wow! They're cheap. Has anyone here used them?
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
* Or go here[^]
Wow! They're cheap. Has anyone here used them?
Slogans aren't solutions.
I'm on my third. I'd still be on my first, but I keep breaking the damned things -- reason No.1 for not paying EUR600 a pop. I've had a Doogee and a Xiaomi. and I've currently got an Asus. All of them brilliant (and already superseded by better models -- which is good, because I'm bound by the laws of the great god Buggermi to break this one, soon).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm on my third. I'd still be on my first, but I keep breaking the damned things -- reason No.1 for not paying EUR600 a pop. I've had a Doogee and a Xiaomi. and I've currently got an Asus. All of them brilliant (and already superseded by better models -- which is good, because I'm bound by the laws of the great god Buggermi to break this one, soon).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I'm rather tempted - my ex-contract Galaxy S5 is falling to pieces (through complete and utter neglect and abuse, it must be admitted) and there's no way that I'm either going to pay current Samsung prices or go back on contract. I'm not a big user of the "smart" aspects of a 'phone and I really don't need a camera that outstrips Hubble for something that might occasionally be deployed as a hand-held scanner so the whole concept of paying more for a 'phone than a laptop is kind of ridiculous to me when 'phone calls, texts, an alarm clock, a browser and the ability to run a handful of apps are the only real requirements. For me (and I suspect the majority of users) 'phones hit the "all you'll ever need" level a good while ago - does being the latest thing really offer any benefit other than being the latest thing? I suspect not. Old and Chinese could well be the way ahead!
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I'm rather tempted - my ex-contract Galaxy S5 is falling to pieces (through complete and utter neglect and abuse, it must be admitted) and there's no way that I'm either going to pay current Samsung prices or go back on contract. I'm not a big user of the "smart" aspects of a 'phone and I really don't need a camera that outstrips Hubble for something that might occasionally be deployed as a hand-held scanner so the whole concept of paying more for a 'phone than a laptop is kind of ridiculous to me when 'phone calls, texts, an alarm clock, a browser and the ability to run a handful of apps are the only real requirements. For me (and I suspect the majority of users) 'phones hit the "all you'll ever need" level a good while ago - does being the latest thing really offer any benefit other than being the latest thing? I suspect not. Old and Chinese could well be the way ahead!
Slogans aren't solutions.
I haven't regretted it; they've all worked fine -- at a total cost of around EUR500, rather than closer to EUR2000. [edit] And DX is very hot on customer service -- don't tell them, but one of the phones I broke sort-of didn't look like I broke it, and they gave me a full refund within a couple of days of my returning it. [/edit]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
