I took 2 spares on my last trip. An iPhone 8 I bought for $100 and a free Samsung A32 from T-Mobile. Handy as hotspot loaners with free T-Mobile high speed roaming data from free lines. My travel companions love it. (Grandkids) They don't take up much space and are easy to charge. (Phones That Is, Not The Grandkids) The Samsung even has 5G, which is nice a few places. I'm going to Europe in a month for about 30 days and will throw them in my backpack again I expect. What a total bummer about the phone loss though. I hate thieves. My wife lost a digital camera to a pickpocket in South America a while back.