@Gianna Thank you. I should have been more specific. I avoid mainland brands like Xiaomi and Huawei because of security concerns. There is also the Zenphone 8, which works with /e/, but would be too narrow for my sausage fingers. So I’m looking for a non-mainland brand non-slim screen phone that is carried by Fortress or Broadway or similar stores. I went through every phone on the list of /e/ phones with salespeople from newest to oldest, until we reached phones that were so old that they thought it was funny that anyone would even ask.
So, if my phone broke today, my options for a new one are:
- a mainland Chinese brand, which I do not trust at the hardware level for security
- Zenphone 8, a daintily narrow phone, which is not wide enough for either my wife or I to type on - and this is the ONLY non-mainland phone compatible with /e/ currently available.
- Give up on /e/. Buy whatever looks nice.
/e/ was great for refurbishing 2 out of 3 of the phones we were already using - but sooner or later we are going to need new phones, at a moment’s notice, so too late to order direcly from /e/ through a reshipper. @AnotherElk 's suggestion is a good one, and I will be looking to see what Lineage devices upstream might do the trick.
I don’t need a new phone - yet. But I figured I can’t be the only /e/ user facing this dilemma. Maybe I have another few months of life in my phone - then maybe that’s enough time to see if this situation can be somehow addressed.
) - and a legal dispute is very expensive.