Looking for two specific features on a cell phone

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Gotta just put this out there, i love my iphone.

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And the answer is, the new protective glass can break just like the old one did. I had it sitting on something. It slid off and landed face first again. Protective cover popped off just like the other one did and I see now it also is only glued along the top and bottom edges.

That was $40 down the drain and conclusive proof that if I have any say about it, I will never own a phone with a curved screen, or else I will find a case that is high enough to actually do the job of taking the impact instead of the screen.

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Ok, almost two years.

Yeah it’s the Essential. Supposedly they are going to put out a second version.

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Just playing with you. :wink:
I also had my time recollection off - my phone model was released in 2015, not 2013 as I had previously thought.

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I bit the bullet over the weekend. Ordered a shiny, brand-new* S10+ for the wife from our carrier, and a ‘renewed’ S9+ for me from Amazon, both on Saturday. Mine arrived Sunday afternoon; wife’s hasn’t shipped yet. :laughing:

*What movie is that from? “Shiny, brand-new!” I was thinking Good Morning Vietnam, but did a quick search an apparently not. I’m fairly certain it was done in an Asian accent.

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I would have guessed Firefly or Serenity

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That would fit with the shiny part, but was in my head long before Firefly came out.

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Phone prices are crazy expensive for flagship models nowadays. The S9+ should still serve you well for a few years.

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Truth! The down payment on wife’s phone was almost as much as the total cost of mine! :astonished:

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I ordered a Moto G7 Power (5000mAh battery) which should arrive Monday. Of the budget-minded smartphones available, it seems to be among the better-reviewed options.

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Moto G phones have always rated highly in the budget class. I’ve had a G4, my current phone is a G5, and my wife currently has a G6. She did a lot of research when a car ran over her last phone and ended up with that one being the best value. Unfortunately, the G7 hadn’t quite reached here at that point otherwise we would have bought that.
I don’t think you’ll regret the G7 :slight_smile:

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We had an original Moto G and another one somewhere in the lineup and now She has a G6. I’ve always been happy with them,

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I don’t know if this is coming from the corporate security settings or if Google or Samsung is just being stupid when it comes to the phone portion of the smartphone, but how in the name of all things under heaven and earth do I get the phone app to stop dimming the screen after 10 seconds and then locking the smartphone 20 seconds after that?

If I get asked a question on a conference call, the other people usually don’t wait the five or ten seconds it takes me to unlock the phone again and then unmute it before they start thinking, “He’s not answering. Let’s move on.” I shouldn’t have to be sitting there tapping my finger on the screen every couple of seconds to prevent it from locking on me.

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Settings - Display - Screen timeout
I seem to remember it being somewhere else in earlier versions of Android, like Settings - Personalization - Display, but it’s somewhere like that.

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Already set at the maximum of 10 minutes. This is a specific behavior of when making a phone call and there’s no timer options when a call is in progress.

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Stay Alive is your friend… I use it on my Galaxy S9+ to combat exactly this issue, @RRabbit42

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I think that might be specific to the dialer preinstalled on Samsung phones. My new phone does that, but my Moto X Pure Edition didn’t. And when I tried to install some of the basic stuff from pure Android on the Galaxy S9+, they were prohibited - Camera app, Phone, Launcher. Ridiculous.

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Could be carrier specific bloat in the way too. I definitely have updated all 3 of those on my S9+ to apps which are more to my liking.

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I think Samsung just has the Google versions blocked. There are other versions that work. I haven’t found a launcher that I like better than the Google one, but I did find a camera app that I like.

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Corporate settings = corporate control of what can be installed, but yeah, Stay Alive would be the solution if it was allowed.