Flashes of Panic

A’s phone died earlier this week. Usually taking the battery out for a “hard restart” was enough, but this time it lost the main display screen entirely, so it was time for new hardware.

I took the opportunity to upgrade my own hardware from one of these, which has been working just fine (even the battery does pretty well, which is actually a bit surprising,) to one of these. (By renewing our contract and submitting to mail-in-rebate forms, we’re not spending anything on the phones.) I haven’t really started to use it yet, but just on “curb appeal” I’m not sure why I bothered. It’s thinner, sure, but no lighter, and the face of it is a smidge bigger.

And I can’t get the battery cover off the old phone to swap the SIM cards, so I can’t start using it and figure out how it’s an improvement over the old one. Maybe the camera is better? Maybe the bluetooth sync with my Mac is improved? I need something to keep me from feeling guilty about retiring a perfectly functional phone which meets my needs.

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