u/Seven_Hawks

I'm going to preface this by saying, the display did not kick the bucket on me. For all intents and purposes the phone is still working like it did when I got it.

I wanted to try a foldable, so I got the razr 50s (Softbank branded version of the razr 2024 for the Japanese market). This is a leasing contract, so after a minimum of two years, I can return it (or decide to keep it for a higher monthly fee). My intention was to use it for 24 months and then return it.

I didn't make it that far.

Reasons are a few minor things that just annoy me, and one major thing that makes the phone virtually useless.

Minor issues:

1. I use Microsoft SwiftKey on my phone. I find it easier and more intuitive to use than Gboard. The external display however does not support anything but Gboard. So I set SwiftKey as the default for the internal display and just decided to live with it - But, tough luck. Open an app on the external display with the keyboard open, transition to internal display, and the phone will just go ahead and set Gboard as default again for internal. I had to redo these settings more times than I can count.
2. Buggy external display. This is a new one. Recently the external display decided that Discord is allotted a whole whopping quarter of the external screen, and no more. Unusable.
3. Camera settings. I don't understand them. Probably never will. Why does the selfie mode randomly start a three-second timer for apparently no reason? There's no setting that corresponds with this. Why is it on by default? Why can I not turn it off? Why can't I even seem to reliably reproduce what makes it go? What the hell is going on?!
4. Very minor issue: It's virtually impossible to safely open this phone with one hand. That's fair enough, at least it stays safely shut.
5. Probably my own fault: I chose Koala Grey as the color. After fifteen months now, the felty texture has now become smooth as a river stone. Not pretty. But I'll attribute that to my sweaty hands.

Major issue:

Cell signal. It's abysmal.

It worked fine, at least as far as I can tell, for two weeks after I bought it. Then I noticed more and more places where I somply wouldn't get any cell reception. Even in places where I should have one, it just wouldn't connect.

I reset it to factory settings, updated it, tried every troubleshooting step under the sun, but nope, no worky.

Removing and reinserting the sim card often recovered a connection so I figured there might be something wrong with the sim tray - I changed carriers, requested an eSim instead of a physical one, and lo and behold, the problem got... less bad.

Cell reception was still crap, but at least it was workable.

Until recently, when the whole thing took a nose dive again - somehow this coincided with the Android 16 update. Probably coincidence. Anyway, now I don't have any cell service at all over half of the time. Not even an exaggeration.

So now it's time to return this thing to the leasing company before something actually breaks that I have to pay for, and be done with it. It was a fun little thing for a while - just got too frustrating.

I'm possibly in the market for an e-assisted bicycle for my wife, and I have never actually bought one so I know virtually nothing about them.

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Generally I'm not a big fan of buying things with proprietary batteries second-hand, and I feel something in that price range should at least come with a warranty.

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The bicycle should have a cargo rack or basket, or the option to fit one, as well as the option to fit a child seat. Being foldable is a plus, but not a necessity.

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If anyone has suggestions for specific bikes, or even just brands, I'd appreciate it. Also let me know brands or stores I shouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.

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We'd prefer not to spend (much) more than 10万.

I am currently trying to gather notes and outline a story I plan to write that happens to take place in Japan in the early 1970s.

Now, obviously I'm not old enough to have lived during that time, let alone in Japan. I'm familiar with present day Japan, but a lot has changed.

I am looking for anecdotes, little factoids, maybe even first hand experiences, or things you heard from people who did have first hand experience living during that time.

Information about how things worked. What's definitely different to today, what's surprisingly the same?

Information about gender roles, working conditions, day to day life for men and women, clothing styles, stigmas, thoughts about foreigners - and presence of foreigners. English education, and maybe early systems of assistant language teachers if that was even already a thing. How the medical system worked, physical health, mental health... etc etc

I am looking for virtually anything and everything I can use as detail.

I'd love to see first hand experiences but I can see how that's not particularly realistic. I'd also love to see stuff you might've heard from someone with firsthand experience. Or maybe you're just a modern history nut and you know stuff.

I'd appreciate any info or anecdotes you care to provide.

But don't just make stuff up - I can do that myself :p

Thanks