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[Lysrin]

What's EDC?

EDC = Every Day Carry

My daughter is still using my old Pixel 2. It is showing its age, but all of the major apps like Netflix, Snapchat, Facebook, Instragram, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, yada yada and lots of games still work on it fine, no issues. She's just turning 13 though so she isn't doing banking or more complex stuff on there. Only VPN she uses is my Nord VPN when I tell her to connect with that when we are travelling. Works fine too.

 

[proxy]

The last update was August 2021, Android 11.

Google does the 2-3 year support thing on their phones, but happily enough they pushed it to 11.

I have no issues with it with any of my usual Apps, then again I stopped playing games on it and in general about 2 years ago.
Banking, security software, VPN, Among Us all runs fine on it. Albeit battery life will drain on an intensive program.

Battery is my only issue, and after the pork grease incident about 2 years ago, it will suddenly die when at 23% and shut down when exposed to subzero temperatures for about 20 minutes.

 

[Lysrin]

The last update was August 2021, Android 11.

Google does the 2-3 year support thing on their phones, but happily enough they pushed it to 11.

I have no issues with it with any of my usual Apps, then again I stopped playing games on it and in general about 2 years ago.
Banking, security software, VPN, Among Us all runs fine on it. Albeit battery life will drain on an intensive program.

Battery is my only issue, and after the pork grease incident about 2 years ago, it will suddenly die when at 23% and shut down when exposed to subzero temperatures for about 20 minutes.

I think we all might suddenly die after too much pork grease!

That's interesting you mention that about the suddenly dying with battery life seemingly left, and the cold temps. We are experiencing exactly that behaviour sometimes with my daughter's Pixel 2... minus the pork grease of course.

 

[proxy]

I think we all might suddenly die after too much pork grease!

That's interesting you mention that about the suddenly dying with battery life seemingly left, and the cold temps. We are experiencing exactly that behaviour sometimes with my daughter's Pixel 2... minus the pork grease of course.

Well it might be unrelated, but I only noticed it after that. I mean the touch screen stopped working for a bit and I ran some small electric arcs over it with a lighter and it started to work again...so there's that.

 

[FreeKnight]

Not worth starting a new thread over this question;

Any place other than ebay that's a good place to buy phones that are discontinued or 1 generation back? I'm considering buying a note 20 Ultra to replace my note 9 rather than an S23 ultra or whatever then next set of phones are. The price for a S22 Ultra is bonkers if you want a decent amount of storage, but the Note 20 still has a micro SD.

But I'd rather not go through ebay if better alternatives are around that aren't completely sketchy...

 

[YoungMan]

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[sswilson]

Depending on your carrier, most of them offer "CPO" (koodos' are called certified pre-owned) at fairly decent tab rates.

 

[FreeKnight]

Ah, I should have specified I'm looking for a 'new' not used/pre-owned/CPO.

Didn't know ebay did coupons though, might have to look into that

 

[JD]

Didn't know ebay did coupons though, might have to look into that

eBay has fairly regular 15% coupons on refurbished items if you consider that "new", sometimes they throw in extended warranty too (I bought a refurbished Miele vacuum and it came with 2yr Allstate warranty).