As long as the screen isn’t totally wet, I don’t have much trouble reading off of it.

Assuming that there will be phones with unlockable bootloaders sold in the US in the future. There are precious few of them now. Importing’s always an option (and quite easy these days), but then you run into the problem of band support.

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