It's probably more than a few hundred $$ greater than what I'd ever spend on a phone, so that could be bad =)
I just had a look at a teardown vid, and they're not too bad to get into with a plastic back cover, but typically I won't buy a phone that needs a heat gun and suction cup to get them apart (only because for more than a decade clipin back covers have been fine for me =) It's always worth looking under the bonnet if you can -->
I can't sell myself on 5G at the moment, due to my rural situation and the very real expectation that 6G will be out before we get 5G coverage here, and even in saying that, getting 5G coverage nationally to the same point 4G is at now, is something like 5years away at best, and I'd hunch 6G will be out by them, the only saving grace being it'll work on existing 5G infrastructures. Whenever you read that, you know they're not talking about end-user devices like phones, and so if you poke a bit in that direction, the 5G chipsets appearing in phones now, 'should be hardware compatible' with the 6G standard but 'may require a firmware update' .. and I went 'hmmm' .. I suppose if you live in an area with 5G coverage, you paint a different picture, but just being able to use the checkin app would be something I'd buy a cheap 4G phone for.. 8)
I'd have to ask. is it laughing at your S4 mini, or just at OS version? If the latter, flash the S4 mini with android10 AOSP firmware image, and install/try the checkin app again. It's a somewhat non-trivial process, but I've done it numerous times* -->
*not specifically on the S4 mini, but the process is basically the same for all android phones
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