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[Glamdring]

After three years I upgraded my S7 Edge to an S10. I got it from another forum, five days old and £150 off. I've bought from this guy before. The real deal. The phone is great. At least it will be when I've arranged it exactly as my old one was. So few of my passwords want to work, and the layout has changed. In some ways it's worth buying a new phone from the shop and getting them to swap it all over for you. Humph.

[Wooster]

I use Nova Launcher Pro, which can be set to remember your layout on a new phone.

[[PCF]Falcs]

Was that a birthday present to yourself Glam :)

[Glamdring]

Yup. Shiny. 

[Wooster]

How  much did it cost you? Thirty Bob? 

[Glamdring]

£625 instead of £799. No, it isn't a knock-off.

[Wooster]

That's not bad. 

I'v'e stuck myself in the sub £200 bracket...for no particular reason other than thinking they're getting a bit expensive for not much in the way of performance.
I also need dual SIM (either EE or O2 works most places in the Highlands, or there's nothing at all), so my Moto G6 does me. 

[Glamdring]

The S10 is dual SIM... go on, splash out!

[Wooster]

Nah, it's a work phone. :)
Even with 20% off as a taxable expense.


Must be because I'm Scottish. 

[Glamdring]

These things are too fragile for work phones. Glass front and back. Same for the iphone.

[[PCF]Falcs]

I am still using my HTC One contract is only a fiver a month no way am i paying out more as to be honest i dont think phones have got that many new things in them to justify the expense

[Glamdring]

Mostly you're right, but if you tried the Galaxy S7, the one I just moved away from, the screen is way better and so's the camera. Smoother too, though I loved the HTC One. The S7 and S7 - and iPhone X - are more fragile than the HTC one because of the glass front and back. I wouldn't recommend them if your work is likely to have you crawling between joists or whatever.

[Glamdring]

It's taken me two days but I've finally restored all of my 2000+ messages and my call record in three way I want it.  Cool.

[Splinter]

Congrats, Glam and I hope you enjoy the S10!
I bought a Note 8 for around 500 last year, then the Note 9 came out and now the Note 10 will be coming in August.
I'm still well chuffed with the Note 8, but it's a job keeping up with Samsung.

[Splinter]

Galaxy Note 20 Ultra delivered yesterday!
 

[keasy]

I've never known what the difference between a note and a normal phone is appart from the stylus.

It's it literally for taking notes?

[Splinter]

Yes, notes and scribbles as well as using the pen to control the phone by Bluetooth.
It's very shiny :)

[Wooster]

I cracked the screen on my Motorola G6 last month and took it to some repair shops, who wanted to charge around £90 or wouldn't touch it as being too difficult to repair.
(I could pick up a new one for about £150)
A replacement screen was £34 and took about an hour using this video as a guide.

The screen isn't as good as the original (you can see the underlying circuitry in the right light), but I'd replaced it with an equally reasonably priced Dual SIM G8, so it was getting passed onto my mother anyway, who was still using an old Google Nexus 4.

I still have a really HTC Desire Z in bits in a drawer, which was far more complex and contained far more components...that's why it's still in bits in a box. The G6 was relatively straightforward.