phone damage and phonception

My brain works pretty slowly these days. It took weeks for me to realize that an easy method for taking a picture of my damaged phone does indeed exist: set the phone on selfie mode, then point the screen at a mirror. What I forgot about, though—again, because I'm pretty slow these days—is the entertaining phonception that would happen as a result: nested images of phones within phones within phones. 

Phonception aside, you can at least now see the screen's wonkiness for yourself, with that bright stripe along the right side (I flipped the image so that the lettering on the screen would be correct; this means it's reality that's backward since you're looking at a mirror image). It looks like a bright rainbow when you see it up close. I've lived with this for nearly a month because I haven't had the wherewithal to drag my lazy ass over to the local Samsung office to get the screen replaced. Scarily, I'm getting used to the damage. The phone's performance seems unaffected by what happened, and the rainbow stripe is only a bother when I'm playing Sudoku: the rainbow stripe partially occludes the right side of the Sudoku grid.

The Samsung Galaxy S21 mainly got dinged on the lower-right-hand corner. I'm pretty sure there's a pebble or a tiny chunk of gravel wedged into the screen's haptic surface (haptein/haptikos: Gk. "touch or fasten"). I'm not sure you can see this, but there are spiderweb cracks radiating out from the point where the pebble/gravel is. The cracks are more visible when the screen is white, but once the phone is in selfie mode, you can't change the background. Click the image to enlarge, then right-click and select "open image in new tab" to see everything at full size. You might see the cracks then.

I did try, once, to visit the Samsung center, but it was late morning, I was worried about being late for work, and the waiting room was already full of people who had all taken a number and were waiting their turn for service. I roughly calculated that it'd be longer than an hour's wait, so I buggered out, intending to come back another day, and in the early morning. Well, you know me: I'm not a morning person unless I'm on a trans-Korea walk.

Here's my phone and the accompanying phonception:

I'll try to get the phone repaired tomorrow, but no promises.

ADDENDUM: here's a closeup of the screen, with little red circles added to show you how and where one of the major cracks is affecting the screen image:

This image is 600 pixels wide, so there's no need to click to enlarge.