Northern Star

You sit and baby a thousand dollar phone for five years and it rewards you with a screen that wants to be a CRT with poor signal or wants to show you what everything would look like if you printed it off and stuck it in a south window for a few years.

In other words, I guess I will see: A. How long can you go on a failing Note 8 screen and/or B. How hard is it to replace the screen, battery, and USB/charging board and how hard is it to make it waterproof or C. How nice a Note 9 is after sitting for four years.

There's not even a crack in the screen yet and any drops have been onto soft surfaces or less than a foot.