my phone upgrade
Fri Jan 24 19:28:51 EST 2020
My phone reports that I averaged 1:21 screen time last week. That's much higher than I expected, but I did spend a lot of time Sunday deleting contacts. (With access to the Agency's Outlook email, the previous phone had "harvested" every email address and phone number in my mailboxes.)
Comparing the new phone with the old....
The new phone is a little bigger and heavier.
The new phone's battery life is better. It can go through a weekend without recharging. I'm going to guess that most of the size and weight gain is battery. The screen is also larger, but the power increase is probably greater than the screen's power draw. And it tolerates hour-long commutes in the cold (say 24°F/-4°C) without shutting off. (That could be the greater mass taking longer to cool down, or it could be a different cell chemistry.)
The new phone is "slicker" - it is very likely to slide off surfaces that are not perfectly level. (It has fallen off several places I could park its predecessor.)
Face recognition is plus and minus. It recognizes me quickly, but I have to point the phone toward me. I often use the phone in ways that it doesn't need to pointed right at me, like needing to read the security token from an app. The new phone times-out more quickly if I'm not interacting with it, and I frequently have to pick it up to unlock it; this is inconvenient.
I don't know how easily the phone might be fooled by faces resembling mine. I don't know how easily the old phone might be fooled by thumbs resembling mine.
The new phone's reception is better in my basement, but I've still had an incoming call fail, and an outbound text not get out.
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My phone reports that I averaged 1:21 screen time last week. That's much higher than I expected, but I did spend a lot of time Sunday deleting contacts. (With access to the Agency's Outlook email, the previous phone had "harvested" every email address and phone number in my mailboxes.)
Comparing the new phone with the old....
The new phone is a little bigger and heavier.
The new phone's battery life is better. It can go through a weekend without recharging. I'm going to guess that most of the size and weight gain is battery. The screen is also larger, but the power increase is probably greater than the screen's power draw. And it tolerates hour-long commutes in the cold (say 24°F/-4°C) without shutting off. (That could be the greater mass taking longer to cool down, or it could be a different cell chemistry.)
The new phone is "slicker" - it is very likely to slide off surfaces that are not perfectly level. (It has fallen off several places I could park its predecessor.)
Face recognition is plus and minus. It recognizes me quickly, but I have to point the phone toward me. I often use the phone in ways that it doesn't need to pointed right at me, like needing to read the security token from an app. The new phone times-out more quickly if I'm not interacting with it, and I frequently have to pick it up to unlock it; this is inconvenient.
I don't know how easily the phone might be fooled by faces resembling mine. I don't know how easily the old phone might be fooled by thumbs resembling mine.
The new phone's reception is better in my basement, but I've still had an incoming call fail, and an outbound text not get out.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/1116615.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]