a new phone
My work phone had been having issues for a while. When it was new it was able to hold a charge till bedtime, but that changed somewhere along the way. I soon learned to leave internet and wireless off all the time, unless I actually needed it just that second, in hopes that I wouldn't need to charge it again by lunch. Then it started having even weirder battery issues--like if I tried using the phone it would often suddenly scream that there was only 1% battery remaining, and I had better plug it in NOW. When that happened either one of two scenarios would play out. Either I would succeed in plugging it in on time, and it would then happily say "charging 58%" (or whatever the number had been before its no-power panic attack), or it would turn itself off, and then, after I plugged it in and turned it back on, it would promptly say "charging 58%" (or whatever the number had been before its no-power panic attack). When this started to be a regular occurrence I asked my bosses if I could get a new phone.
They said yes, and today it finally arrived. Needless to say, once I picked it up this morning I didn't accomplish anything else other than getting the new phone set up and data transferred over. So far, so good. The new phone came with a battery that was half charged, and since it spent part of the day plugged into a computer it is still doing fine with 38% charge remaining, despite having had both wireless and internet turned on for most of the day and my adding apps and data and changing the settings to suit my preferences.
The phone is a little larger, with better screen resolution, so the same apps look much better and show more information at once. The old phone would give me suggestions for what word I might want when typing, but it gave English suggestions if I had the English keyboard active, and Swedish suggestions if I had the Swedish keyboard active, and it seemed like I always wanted the keyboard that wasn't active at any given moment. The new phone doesn't care which keyboard I am using, it makes suggestions in both Swedish and English all of the time. This means I can just leave it in the Swedish keyboard all the time and type in what ever language seems appropriate just now, and it will help cover my spelling issues (though, of course I have turned off the damn auto correct feature--I demand total control over when and if I will use its suggestions!).
After work we went and bought a phone case for it, one that lets me keep the few id and credit cards I need all of the time in the case. Then we took the lanyard off of the phone case I had made myself for the last phone and sewed it to the new case, so now it hooks into my phone baldric and I don't have to worry about ever dropping it. I have no idea why lanyards with hooks on them aren't standard issue for phone cases. This one isn't as good as the one I had made for the other phone, as the compartments for cards isn't as useful, but I don't have time or energy to do the fitting required to make one, so this time we opted to just go shopping. If I am not happy with it I can always take it apart and use it as a pattern for where the holes should be and make a better case using the plastic phone holding part.
They said yes, and today it finally arrived. Needless to say, once I picked it up this morning I didn't accomplish anything else other than getting the new phone set up and data transferred over. So far, so good. The new phone came with a battery that was half charged, and since it spent part of the day plugged into a computer it is still doing fine with 38% charge remaining, despite having had both wireless and internet turned on for most of the day and my adding apps and data and changing the settings to suit my preferences.
The phone is a little larger, with better screen resolution, so the same apps look much better and show more information at once. The old phone would give me suggestions for what word I might want when typing, but it gave English suggestions if I had the English keyboard active, and Swedish suggestions if I had the Swedish keyboard active, and it seemed like I always wanted the keyboard that wasn't active at any given moment. The new phone doesn't care which keyboard I am using, it makes suggestions in both Swedish and English all of the time. This means I can just leave it in the Swedish keyboard all the time and type in what ever language seems appropriate just now, and it will help cover my spelling issues (though, of course I have turned off the damn auto correct feature--I demand total control over when and if I will use its suggestions!).
After work we went and bought a phone case for it, one that lets me keep the few id and credit cards I need all of the time in the case. Then we took the lanyard off of the phone case I had made myself for the last phone and sewed it to the new case, so now it hooks into my phone baldric and I don't have to worry about ever dropping it. I have no idea why lanyards with hooks on them aren't standard issue for phone cases. This one isn't as good as the one I had made for the other phone, as the compartments for cards isn't as useful, but I don't have time or energy to do the fitting required to make one, so this time we opted to just go shopping. If I am not happy with it I can always take it apart and use it as a pattern for where the holes should be and make a better case using the plastic phone holding part.