I've given in, Pegasus.

[Irene]

I just got it tonight.  Design is good, screen and back camera are both powerful, everything works.

On the down side:-

a}  The interface is the most idiotic and exasperating thing I have ever seen or experienced.  Typing more than minimally is infuriating; it's constant hunt and peck, and the areas for each letter are too small for my fingers.  There is no way out of the camera app back into the launcher, without turning the thing off and turning it back on.

b}  There is a pervasive sense of malignance and malevolence from using it.

b1}  I can't access the general browser at all without letting it access literally every form of personal information I have; if I don't let it track my location, the browser simply shuts down and dumps me back out to the launcher.

b2}  I am limited to very few specific actions, which feel a lot like they're only the actions that someone else wants me to be able to take.  I can access Chrome, but that only has a list of preselected apps; Google, Facebook, Wikipedia etc; the canned corporate stuff.  I can't get a general http address prompt.  Whenever I am in Chrome, there is also always some headline about some terrorist bombing or horrible form of death that someone has experienced at the bottom of the screen, and the launcher itself goes to an app listing unbelievably negative headlines with a left swipe, as well.

I've turned it off and put it in my drawer.  I will get a sim card for it probably; but aside from occasional phone calls or use of the camera, I can't see myself using it very much.  The camera is nice, so some photography might be fun, but there is still heavy guilt and a sense that I am willingly perpetuating fascist dystopia by using it.

I have come to believe recently, that there is something in this society which is actively encouraging as many people as possible to kill themselves; and I think the use of negative news media on phones would definitely be part of that.

I've been working off a smartphone for years. You can do almost anything with it.

BTW, if you want to search for something, open a browser and type it into the address bar.

You're welcome.