The best smartphone is the one you already own
Finally, every new smartphone contains several grams of rare earth metals and “conflict” minerals including gold, tin, tungsten, and tantalum. These are mined for, at gunpoint, by child slaves in the Congo. That’s right: Your purchase of a new smartphone requires a kid to go into a cave for minerals, and empowers the people and companies who are exploiting him. (To be fair, most smartphone manufacturers feel really bad about this, and wish they could come up with a way of supplying you with a new phone every year that didn’t depend on raping and killing children.)
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), and even the Xperia still worked in terms of the very basic functions I wanted. The only issues were the battery life (although apparently they came out the box with a trash battery capacity), and the GPS was so bugged out that it ended up crashing and restarting my phone... Resulting in me flashing the rom not too long ago which seemed to have fixed it (and increased the processing speed as well
). But it still works, still have it at my desk too.
), but I'm sure there are ways to keep it running perfectly fine. A phone is meant to be a mode of communication through calling and texting. If it can at least do those two, it's still a phone. If it can't do either, it's basically a tablet.
So you're good.

