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Her iPhone died. It led to her being charged as a criminal

While I rather like the notion of less things to carry, I don’t foresee leaving home with my phone rather than my wallet to happen for another fifty years or so. It’s just not practical enough, even if you’re surrounded by modern technology.
There’s really two reasons for that. 
One is my Driver’s License, a fairly important piece that while in the surface it might seem old hat, thanks to modern requirements has more to it than a reference number for a database. Or as I like to remember it, renewing my license was a pain in the ass due to stricter prove who you are requirements than when mine has been originally issued and the chipping of personal identification.
Another is that contactless payments have been a bout slow to catch on. Newer terminals haven’t been uncommon where I live, thanks to America becoming a little less stone aged about swipe versus stick processing. But being able to talk my phone, or my card which does that too, isn’t offered in enough places I frequent to be able to skip it. Thus if I’m going to pay for something, I’ll probably have need of my wallet anyhow.
There’s also the bonus that the cards in my wallet don’t require managing a power source the way a phone or smart watch does. And sadly, those imprint machines still exist in the wild for when computerized payment processing systems go wonkers. But having to carry a card, or even more annoyingly a coin purse, beats the dead phone induced trouble this article described.
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Nokia 2720 Flip Review: The Feature Phone Grows Up

And unlike the Motorola Razr I have in a drawer somewhere, it probably can handle a modern network.

Being more a tablet guy than a phone addict, I actually considered taking to a flip phone as part of cutting costs. Since I rarely need the connectivity of a modern phone; in the end the reason I kept on the smart phone track is it can be convenient in a pinch and Google Fi makes things very economical when your data use is typically a few hundred megs at most.

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Rebooting for the modern age:

BSD: time for kernel updates.
Linux: power outage finally won.
Android: dog ate the charger.
Windows: every update and driver fart.
Chromebook: whenever it gets funky.
iPad OS: more often Chromebook but same concept.

In vague order of frequency, lol

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You Can Officially Transform Your Smartphone Into a Pokedex

I’m pretty sure that when Pokémon Red and Blue were still current releases themselves, you probably could have gotten me to accept a phone just for the sake of this case—I wasn’t really a fan of smart phones until many years later.

Aptly, then as now, I’d rather have a Game Boy that looks like a Pokédex than a phone case, lol.

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Remarkable raises $15 million to bring its e-paper tablets to more scribblers

I’d actually like to see a lot more devices like this, and find the reMarkable particularly interesting. The main negative imho behind the cost compared to more general purpose devices.

Which is to say for most folks, you may as well buy an Apple Pencil and the cheapest iPad that’ll work with it. It won’t be the same thing but it would be more value to the average user.

E-Ink and styli are both tech I’d rather like to see more commonly used, so my bias is fairly obvious 😜

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Sad truths: when things needed on your shopping list are both on sale and have a coupon, very happy feelings should follow.

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Amazon updates Fire HD 10 tablet with USB Type-C and Android Pie
https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/10/07/amazon-updates-fire-hd-10-tablet-with-usb-type-c-and-android-pie/

When even the cheap option goes to USB-C, I kinda feel less sad about how much MicroUSB-B has died out in my home. Pretty much I keep one on my charger for powering my Bluetooth speaker, and still need such cables for my Xbox controller and one of my Bluetooth keyboards. But pretty much everything around here is built around USB-C, or requires something other than USB for its supply of go go juice.