But you can’t keep it hence your post. I say widen your horizon and go with the 23 and see what’s up. Start playing more games and watching movies etc etc.

Go from there. If you want a snapiier phone go with better. If ut doesn’t matter to you, go back with mid tier.

0% is the worst you can do to a battery. 100% isn’t good either.

This one is hard and will lind of go against everyone else above.

If I was going to answer this normally, I would spout the same as everyone else and go with the 23. Easy choice because the gains for the difference in price is just a no Brainer.

But you added not a heavy user and tdlr use the phone like a hip grandma. So that changes things. You don’t even need the 21.

If you want to go with bang for buck, 23. If you want to go by numbers, 21. If you want to go by pure data, neither, something lower tier as it doesn’t matter in your case.

When you do commit to the 21 or 23, you are going to notice it being vastly snappier and faster and more clear etc. All the basics but better. You’ll think about what you’ve been missing all this time.

Fast forward a few months and you’ll get used to it. You have a new basic and odds are you can’t go backwards. If you do, it will ge mire dreadful than not.

Tdlr. You have a non fast phone but you’re used to it and only use it for basic use. If you never know, you don’t know.

Obviously it’s better to get the better phone cause it’s faster and better. But using it for basic stuff has diminishing returns.

Take your pick of the two. Red or blue pill?

My last phone was a note 10 plus when I upgraded to 23 ultra. I never wanted to upgrade and miss my old note 10 plus. Wife still has the note 10 plus.

I only upgraded cause I was concerned about if I don’t upgrade now, can I wait for the next best samsung phone. Samsung at minimum takes 2 years before having a phone worth purchasing, 1st year after a good phone is a phone is just minimal improvements. Even 2 yrs after, it might have issues like over heating or screen issues etc.

My niece also had her phone stolen and never got a replacement for over 3 months so giving her my old phone made me get over the edge to just get the 23 ultra.

I miss my old phone. Nothing wrong with the 23 ultra obviously but the note 10 plus was perfectly fine and much lighter and thinner.

If I could choose and go back. I would have kept the note 10 plus