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Yesterday, we suffered a tragic loss to my family. My beloved cell phone (Samsung Galaxy S21 512GB) slipped from my fingers when gravity greedily grabbed it and the screen spent some quality facetime with the metal base of my floor lamp.

Thankfully, after about eleventy billion attempts, I was able to get into the phone (80% of the screen is black but touch still works) and recovered files, but lost all my text messages and access to my multifactor authenticator (which will make around a dozen websites a nightmare to access).

Thankfully, I had insurance on it. Regrettably, they're not replacing the phone and are instead sending me a pre-paid Visa for the purchase price (minus the $150 claim fee). Sadly, you can't buy a new one at the moment (they're out of stock and won't be back until the end of the month), so I'm stuck using my old S7 until at least then.

#FirstWorldProblems

You poor soul.

The insurance company paid me with an Amazon gift card. This would be great if Amazon actually had the phone in stock, but they don't. I ended up ordering it direct from Samsung (for several hundred more than I had originally paid thanks to the chip shortage). I'll use the credit with Amazon to help pay for Christmas.

The new phone won't ship until next month.

Gonna dust off this topic because there's progress on Operation Cell Phone.

Samsung kept pushing the data back on when I would get the new phone, from Nov 14, to Nov30, and to December 4th. Then I got an email last week saying it has been delayed another 30 days and isn't expected until early next year. Ugh. Two days later.... I get another email from them stating it's in the USA and shipped, with a FedEx tracking number, and it will be here tomorrow. I'm guessing it cleared customs a lot faster than they expected.

None of this is important to anyone but me, but I felt like sharing.

So...Did it make it?

Gooch wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 5:22 pm So...Did it make it?

Yup... and it's exactly like the one I broke. Of course, the day after it arrived, leaks about the Samsung S22 Ultra 5G appeared all over the web, and it looks like it may be available next month for the same price I paid for the S21 (because, of course it will be... ugh!). There's not a lot of difference between the two except for the chipset. The S22 will have the new Snapdragon 8.1 processor with enhanced AI and it sounds amazing. Other than that... cameras, storage, and battery remain the same.