Can't afford a smartphone? That's going to cost you.

[hunter]

14. All those "usage areas" seem unpleasant...

Swish payments, bank login, login to e-government, and access to medical records via Vårdguiden 1177.

Do I even want to know what a "Swish payment" is???



I'm very good at loosing or breaking personal electronics such as phones, cameras, laptops, etc., so they have to be cheap. Rugged slab type smart phones are not cheap.

My current flip phone was free, diverted from the e-waste bins. It replaced a flip phone I dropped in a fish pond. (All I had to do was transfer the sim card, which was not damaged.)

The phone previous to that, I lost. Or maybe it was stolen. Someone found it and even answered once when I called and then hung up. For whatever reason I guess they decided it would be better to throw it away than return it.

I had a slab-type smart phone before that which did not survive a long fall onto rocks.

Etc.

All my medical records before 2014 or so are apparently lost or inaccessible which actually makes me kind of happy. I feel no need to explain some of my scars to doctors, therapists, or anyone else.