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That sounds a lot like losing your wallet or dropping it in the sewer. Except that losing your wallet is a lot worse. In the situation you described, I'd just b

• gruez 8y ago
  >That sounds a lot like losing your wallet or dropping it in the sewer You have your phone out all the time. The risk of losing/breaking it is significantly higher than your wallet which sits your pocket 99.9% of the time.
  • PakG1 8y ago
    Funny aside: I've seen a lot of anecdotes on HN and from friends that having a smartwatch negates the need for your phone to be out all the time. New technologies create new problems that create new technological solutions all the time, I guess. I suppose at some point all this might be moot in the long term because people will have succumbed to having chips implanted in their skin or brain, and we won't even really need phones anymore. /a little bit of s
• dingaling 8y ago
  > That sounds a lot like losing your wallet Many tourists keep backup cash and travel documents in a waist-pack just for that contingency. To expand on the original scenario, last year my primary phone was soaked in freak torrential rain and shut-off. Thankfully I had loaded all my travel docs, password safe and maps to a backup tablet and I was able to call into a service station and arrange my affairs over their wifi. It took two days for my phone to dry out. Always, always take a backup when away from home. > I'd just borrow the driver's phone to login on WeChat and pay You'd know your password from memory? You'd trust his phone? Would you use banking apps on his phone too?