A few days ago, my trusty Samsung t159, a feature phone built in 2012, died.
It still turned on, but all the buttons save for the power button stopped working. I could see that I was receiving text and phone calls, but I could do nothing about it.
For some situations, when a thing breaks, you go out and just buy a new thing. Broken fridge broken? Go to your local appliance store. Broken TV? Go to Best Buy. Broken limb? You need Lea Press-on Limbs.
But if you’re someone who doesn’t have a smartphone, it’s a little harder. Non-smartphones are hard to find. My local T-Mobile store has a grand total of zero of them on display.
So what is to be done?
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