I bought a Samsung as well. We should both learn from our mistakes, and never do that again - this is simply the cost of doing business with them. Maybe Fairphone would be good?

[–] Vuraniute@thelemmy.club 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

where can I get a good phone like a pixel or fairphone or whatever in greece? phones like that cant be found anywhere.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 6 points 9 months ago

Sadly I know very little there. I know I HATE my current Samsung (mostly due to the company practices like you mentioned), and I also felt incredibly betrayed by my OnePlus 7T before that (the device itself was amazing, until an update broke it and now it literally hurts my hand, like I wonder if it's giving me cancer by radiating something through the shielding that it burned through), and before that I absolutely adored my Nexus 5 (but Pixels are a whole other thing entirely - far too much camera and too little actual phone for my tastes). The entire smartphone world is incredibly predatory. I mostly figure that the next one I get will be a cheap phone, maybe even a dumb flip... but on the other hand I do live in an area where Google (or whatever) Maps could really help out so... I don't know what I'll do when my current one craps out:-(. Probably I will research a Fairphone, but if you live in an area where that would be difficult to repair, then yeah that may not be an option for you:-(. At least you live within the EU though where such is being forced to change, so you have that going for you.:-)

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Can you not buy one online?

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Fairphone removed the headphone jack so it’s pretty useless as a personal electronic device IMO