I've had the same smartphone for 5 years years now, the samsung galaxy s7. I have no intention of getting another one unless this one stops working. Got plenty of space for music and apps, over the next couple days i'm gonna switch my cell phone service cuz my current provider just doesn't cut it. Luckily, at&t still accepts the s7.
You don't say?
Up until a few months ago, my wife and I had this same viewpoint. I had an S6 and she was with the S7. Both our phones worked perfectly, and we were happy to stick with them until one or both of them broke.
In late August, we went on vacation, taking a road trip up to North Conway, NH, where we rented a little cabin for a week. About 3 nights in, all of a sudden, my wife's phone would no longer connect to the AT&T network. My S6 was still working fine. Thinking it was some oddity related to us being up in the mountains and sort of isolated, we just sort of ignored it until we went home. I did trey to reboot the phone etc. and al the usual nonsense to get it back on the network, btw.
When we got back to our house, the thing still wouldn't come up. I called tech support, and after about an hour on the phone with this person, they were stumped, so they asked me to head to the AT&T store to get a new SIM. I live right near a store, so I popped over and got a new SIM for the phone, It came right up and I went back home and gave the phone back to my wife. 10 minutes later, it started giving us the same problem, and wouldn't connect with the network.
Back on the phone with tech support, this time escalating the call to their alleged "special advanced tech support," who eventually told me "Hmm, for some reason, this phone's ID# has been added to our unsupported devices list. It's because it is a 3G device."
S7s are not 3G. Says so right on the box, and hey, my S6 is still working, yea? No matter. Because it had been added to the list, by AT&T, it could never be removed, and we had to get a new phone. Sounded like a load of **** to me, and an effort to get me to buy more phones. I told them to stick it, and said I was going to Verizon.
Went to Verizon, but they claimed there was a phone shortage, and that all they had were either the newest flagship Android, or the newest flagship iPhone, both of which were too expensive for my cheap ass. Other than that, here's a waiting list, and we can call you when something else is available, which could be a week or a month. Call me? My phone is broken and I told AT&T to kiss my ass, so my other phone will soon be shut off.
Back to AT&T, thank you sir, may I have another, gimme some new phones. At least they had decently priced previous gen S20s for us.
Signed,
Some poor sap.