When it comes to technique, I don't have much of a dilemma.
Is either 0 or 1.
Either correctly and works or incorrectly and goes for recycling.
When it works, it has full value for me, all 100%, but when it fails, its value immediately drops to 0.
Although sometimes it's hard to be without your favorite gadget, it happens when you least expect it.
Then there is no room for comments like:
"Well, it was not used much",
"It was working great until a while ago, when it suddenly turned off".
"It never worked out for me"...
When the device, in this case the mobile phone, decides that its last hour has come, it dies in your hands, suddenly, like when a human being suffers from a heart attack or stroke.
Without any warning, like when a man closes his eyes and exhales, darkness will cover the screen of the deceased's mobile phone.
Was it expensive when it was bought, but so far it has worked for perhaps more years than one would expect from a mobile phone...
Maybe just because it was expensive, because it is a business phone, it worked without any announcements of dying until its last moment.
This Note 8, which was used by my partner, beeped its last notification last night, said goodbye to the WiFi network in our apartment, logged out of the base station repeater...
Although his battery was changed, this time his head failed him, his motherboard was damaged.
And when the brain of the phone is damaged, all data from it is irretrievably lost.
OK, we know, backup on the Cloud, on Gmail... Contacts synchronized in several locations...
But when a phone this old, which has been used for years, dies, all the applications that were installed on it go with it.
Of course, they can be reinstalled through the Store, but it is a waste of time to restore a new phone completely with all data.
It will take some time (some of my time🙂).
In addition, some data will surely be lost, contacts entered in the last few days, photos taken, passwords entered in the Password keeper, records from Notes...
The new phone that will come as a replacement (let's just find one that she likes, provided that it is phenomenal, that it is not an iPhone, that it is not too expensive...), it will take some time to be filled with the data that my partner needs, but it will also she will definitely need more time to get used to the new phone (you can conclude that she doesn't like it, getting used to a new phone is the most difficult thing for her than with a mobile phone).
In addition, not to mention the unplanned cost of buying another phone. Along with the main challenge - find a model that she like and that fits nicely in her hand.
This will be an interesting weekend. Searching for phone offers, walking from shop to shop to compare models, and above all, to have a drink tonight in memory of a fallen mobile companion.
Dear Note 8, you were great. Reliable, fast, accurate, you had a good camera, good microphones and speakers, your battery lasted long enough to get you through the day. You quickly synchronized with her accounts, and browsers worked better and faster on you than on a computer...
Ss one line from my favorite domestic film says: "You died near the end of your life".
RIP Samsung Note 8