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Just don't give all that money to those awful corporations.
A second hand 100€ phone and a glass of fresh water are more than enough to feel completely dead inside.
Last time I owned a $100 phone I regretted it dearly.
You get barely enough storage space to run the OS and maybe two apps, the Cracker Jack box CPU makes apps crash and the OS extremely unresponsive, and you get so little RAM that you can't even have anything running in the background. Your music literally stops playing just because you needed to read a text. Never again.
Up that budget to about $300-400. Couple of months ago I got a Samsung Fold 4 for that price; it's extremely responsive and has enough RAM and storage space to last me at least 5 years while still feeling nothing.
Second hand? Find a used 3-4 years old flagship phone (or quality midrange nowadays) with good LineageOS compatibility and you're golden. Seriously it's nothing like what you're describing. I do this for myself, mom and sis, all phones are fast, 8 gb ram, 128-256 storage (and I didn,t buy them recently)
Maybe the second hand market is different for us europoors
Maybe,
Maybe.
Possibly.
I'm not sure what I need my phone for other then phone calls and some basic apps. If s $100 phone can't do that, I'll be angry at the shitheel software devs that never do optimization rather than myself for not practicing consumerism properly.
Fair enough, but having a snappy phone with plenty of storage is important to those of us who do pretty much everything on our phones. My laptop on the other hand was purchased cheaply 6 years ago and I'll often go a week without using it, and my laptop before that lasted 11 years.