First World Problems - my phone! My beloved phone!
Aiieee! My smartphone is wearing out. AGAIN. For the last 4 years I have been stubbornly clinging to my outdated but beloved iPhone SE, the last phone that Apple manufactured that wasn't obscenely big and clumsy. It was a refurb (so it is probably actually 5 years old) and irreplaceable because Apple discontinued them in 2018 and hasn't manufactured a decent sized pocket phone since. So I kept good old Rose Gold going with a succession of sleek little charging cases and finally a full battery replacement in 2019. But time marches on; battery #2 is starting to fade and I am down to my last working charging case.
But just in the nick of time, Apple finally gave in and is now producing a small-format iPhone again! Not a hybrid of two older models this time, but a mini version of their flagship iPhone 12! It's just a smidge larger than the first generation SE (but with a much larger screen), a BAM-SOCK-ZOWIE new camera, and a high-res OLED display. It also costs a small fortune, and has a number of dubious "improvements" that nobody asked for and I certainly don't want (like Face ID), but it seems like my best option.
So with a certain amount of trepidation I hit DONE and ordered one. And now I'm actually a little excited to get it. I'm sure it will take me a while to get used to it, but maybe the larger display size really will turn out to be adequate compensation for removal of the Home Button. Maybe. Not convinced, but willing to give it a try. At least there's still a Lightning port, so my collection of charging cables and devices will still work.
But I will need a new case, so... back to shopping. I'm reminded of an article I read when the smartphone craze was just taking off about how people were literally falling in love with their phones: wanting to be with them all the time, constantly worrying about their safety, and dressing them up in cute little outfits.
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But just in the nick of time, Apple finally gave in and is now producing a small-format iPhone again! Not a hybrid of two older models this time, but a mini version of their flagship iPhone 12! It's just a smidge larger than the first generation SE (but with a much larger screen), a BAM-SOCK-ZOWIE new camera, and a high-res OLED display. It also costs a small fortune, and has a number of dubious "improvements" that nobody asked for and I certainly don't want (like Face ID), but it seems like my best option.
So with a certain amount of trepidation I hit DONE and ordered one. And now I'm actually a little excited to get it. I'm sure it will take me a while to get used to it, but maybe the larger display size really will turn out to be adequate compensation for removal of the Home Button. Maybe. Not convinced, but willing to give it a try. At least there's still a Lightning port, so my collection of charging cables and devices will still work.
But I will need a new case, so... back to shopping. I'm reminded of an article I read when the smartphone craze was just taking off about how people were literally falling in love with their phones: wanting to be with them all the time, constantly worrying about their safety, and dressing them up in cute little outfits.
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