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by JMTQp8lwXL 2500 days ago
> Think about it: Why do you need any credit card at all? You have your phone,

One's phone could be dead, or near 0-percent battery. The trend is for people to forego annual upgrades (phone lifespans are increasing), but those phones are also not getting maintenance -- so the battery performance is degraded. A phone with a degraded battery might barely pull through a day, if you remember to charge it the previous evening.