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You can get a refurbished Samsung Galaxy S7 for under 99$: https://www.backmarket.com/en-us/l/samsung-galaxy-s7/d416373...

And it will under guaranty for at least six months. The website guarantees a at least 70% of the orginal capable batteryu

That's what I have. Has a jack, a physical home button and back button, a microSD slot. Don't know your expectations but the camera is better than the expensive camera I bought in 2005. I am not ashamed of sending photos to any of my friend. Performance is fine. (Usage: I text, use Google Maps, YouTube and I browse without an issue)




If those are the only apps you use, you might be fine for a while but lots of apps won't support old Android versions which could be problematic if you depend on such apps, e.g. for banking or signing into government services.


Nah I use for banking too. I use a bunch of apps and I am yet to find any that doesn't work.


That phone is amazing. Headphone jack + Notification Led + great size + good photos + good battery + nice design. I used it until a few months ago. Unfortunately, it was getting somewhat sluggish for normal use.

I got the Google pixel 4a 5g and tbh couldn't be happier. Still, if the S7 was faster I would keep using it.


Similarly, I recently picked up a Sony XZ1 Compact for cheap. It's a brilliantly sized phone with an SD card slot, fingerprint reader, and headphone jack. Turns out flagship processors from 2017 still work just fine, especially when you have ad blockers to keep the nastiest globs of JS from trashing your CPU and battery.

It's a fair bit bigger than my old 2016 iPhone SE, but it's actually smaller than the iPhone Mini.


A used phone with 70% battery capacity and it only supports an Android version 5 years old from what I can tell.

The same generation iPhone - the 6S just got a security update a couple of weeks ago.




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