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It's the third most expensive thing I've ever bought in my life by just a few hundred dollars! I mean all of you who have bought your own home can laugh at me. Here I am, a grown man with some white beard hairs complaining about the price of a phone. I mean I've spent more on any of a number of return flights, let alone vacations. But I'm still shocked. I could have gone for a cheaper model (last year's had a serious discount) but I like to buy top of the line with extra RAM and storage, and then keep it for a long time. Even some reviewers said this model is overpriced. My current phone is 6 years old, and if the screen wasn't lifting (thanks to 3 battery replacements and glue-dependent manufacturing, thanks planned obsolescence) I could potentially keep using it for 1 or 3 more years, save for the lack of OS updates. This new one comes with 7 years of software updates, which really pleases me.

The one thing that sucks a bit about hanging on to my old phone for so long is that there are many trade-in programs to get a serious discount on the new phone, but even with generous timelines, my old phone is just too old.

(The new phone is a Pixel 9 Pro, which fiiiinally ships here from Google after months (...2) of delay).