"Would a machine understand the feelings you're having ?"

Isn't that one of the current great challenges in the AI field - reciprocity?

Not a machine, but I've already feeling some of the same things that I usually feel in human relationships as well. Focusing on the present and (especially) future a lot. That old phone could not survive without me (=plugging in to charge battery) longer than 2 hours lately. In every other function, it was pretty okay - I never dropped it during the over 3 years of our collaboration, only ~2 small scratches were on the screen when I turned it in today. It helped me to answer a zillion emails/texts and also allowed me to work on a number of projects in detail, using more elaborate functions (softwares). It always woke me up when I wanted and never disturbed when I did not want (set so). It synced with my mind even (other devices and data). I have not been a big photographer during those 3 years but I definitely have some great visuals to document. I backed up all data before the wipe out today, so no loss at all.

I don't know why there is still the image of the old phone, it is in an old fancy but tortured case, is still in my mind. I had similar feelings before around abandoning gadgets or even concepts... I am prone to abandoning ( vs what's more common in PC, being abandoned). One reason, for me, to post this thread, is to potentially follow the process of the abandoner... I think the image of the phone will dissipate for me within a few days.