@9713a166 @5d9669cc Your problem isn't the phone, it's cargo pants. (I'd *never* put a smartphone in a pants pocket.) 

 @0c1a9324 @9713a166 @5d9669cc where do you put your phone if not pants pockets? 

 @6a47241e @9713a166 @5d9669cc Jacket pockets. (Or a small cross-body. But usually jacket/hoodie.) 

 @0c1a9324 @6a47241e @9713a166 you must live somewhere near the North Pole. I haven't seen a jacket in months (well ok, I got married, but that's not somethijng I hope to do every year) let alone a hoodie. I'd die in a hoodie out here. 

 @5d9669cc @6a47241e @9713a166 I live in Edinburgh. Which is about 100km north of Moscow, Russia (but a few thousand km west), and north of every city in North America except Anchorage. All-time record temperature here was a whisker over 30℃, which it approaches once a decade or so. 

 @0c1a9324 @5d9669cc considering how willing Sony was to ship me continued replacements, maybe I'm the only person who wanted a phone that big and they had warehouses full of them, all unsold.

I'll probably get a folding phone next (age, eyes, etc), but I'm wary of either Samsung or Google being able to repair them in a reasonable timeframe. 

Ok, fine. I'm worried about Samsung. After-launch support is not something that Google is structurally capable of. 

 @9713a166 @5d9669cc This is precisely why I'm waiting for Apple to push out a folding phone. AppleCare+ cover is a life-saver. (And it doesn't hurt that the nearest Apple store is 500 metres from my front door, on foot.) 

 @0c1a9324 @5d9669cc absolutely. Apple's repair process is so vastly better than anyone else's. I'd probably switch if they made a folding iPhone, but it's not going to happen soon enough to change my next phone. 

 @9713a166 @5d9669cc My next phone is somewhere between a factory assembly line and final delivery next week. So a folding phone in 2026 would be just right for me.