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by cassepipe 1132 days ago
Dedicated back and home button is the reason why I always buy a refurbished Galaxy S7 after I break/lose it. This is my third is six years. I like that the price to pay to maintain the same experience actually goes downwards. Who knows how long it will keep working like that? Hopefully I will be able to put lineageOS or postmarketOS on it when the software eventually stops working. Maybe some day I get to be an amazing linux hardware programmer like Caleb Connolly and am able to mainline S7 support in linux like he did for the SnapDragon 845, whatever that means
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> Who knows how long it will keep working like that? Hopefully I will be able to put lineageOS or postmarketOS on it when the software eventually stops working.

You'll be fine, if I break my current phone, my next one will be a Galaxy S4 as well, some people do run Android 12 on it nowadays, the battery is replaceable and the phone is so cheap used that it's not even worth worrying about.