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I gave up my detox

I suggested in my last post that I intended to have a digital detox with a Lightphone 2 

Sadly on my network (Vodafone) it kept dropping calls and as it was a very basic phone I had to have phone calls! The network blamed the manufacturer and they blamed the network. Basically caught in a loop I couldn't get out of

So off to eBay it went and I sold it within a week, I had purchased from Amazon renewed (an excellent service) in the previous year a Google pixel 5 another great phone but totally not supported with updates. This began to overheat!

So that went back to Amazon as the renewed process guarantees a year on all there devices. So I began a search with " what is the most secure phone with limited support" and people suggested the Samsung Note 20 Ultra. On Amazon renewed they had one new totally unused for £300 and absolute bargain, when I received it and opened it it was remarkable still with all the Samsung stickers on it. The phone is a beast with 12gb RAM and 256gb storage and expandability in memory accepting an SD card.

The camera is still good in today's market and it had built in Knox software protected system as the below images show



 

 

 

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