@HeNeArXn @whitequark my first smartphone (an iPhone 4S) came out of such a carrier-sponsored change, when my dad (who lives in the UK) got a 5S.But I'm someone who's always had a prepaid SIM card, and I have bought all my phones since at an electronics store.Out of the five smartphones I bought, three times were because the previous one broke, and the two other times were because they hit capacity limits (the iPhone 4S's non extensible 16 gigabyte storage, and a cheap Android phone's (Motorola G7 Play) 1 gigabyte RAM crashing upon trying to open any Misskey instance in the browser)With the latter two broken phones (both Xiaomi Redmi Note 11S, one had an inflated battery and the other one had a motherboard failure and wouldn't charge anymore), I bought a replacement and then sent the broken one in for repair, so I wasn't stuck phoneless for weeks. I only bothered sending them for repair because they were still within warranty.the other broken phone was broken because I smashed it on the ground in a meltdown once, after having had it for like half a year, and it miraculously survived after that for another almost two years before it wouldn't charge reliably anymore. The screen was shattered after the ground throw and I tried to get it repaired at a local shop, but they scammed me and then I didn't bother anymore.
