Need a New Phone

I need a new phone. I have been tolerating my current iPhone for months. I almost threw it into the toilet bowl when it wiped out all my contacts automatically for the 3rd time. It saved itself when it retrieves all the contacts after I upgraded the software. Then again, I bet you have also heard how the upgraded software comes with its side effects and I shall not touch on that. I am waiting for my current contract to expire, so that I have the option to downgrade to a lower plan (I don't use that much of my phone) or switch telco altogether. M1 is far from being the best with all the recent screw-ups. However, a new number is the last thing that I need. The day is finally approaching. My current contract will expire in mid December! I am so looking forward.

This iphone has been with me for almost 2 years. The home button seems to be failing and I have been exercising my thumb muscle a fair bit. The button now requires more a few hard pushes to work. But I am grateful that at least it still works.

The iPhone’s memory cannot be expanded. Currently, I have over 500 pictures and 50 videos in my iPhone and I am constantly hovering at the limits. The pictures and videos are of course back-up in my home computer but these are the really precious ones that I would like to keep in my phone so that I could look at them every now and then. Bcos I am so near to the maximum capacity, I have to constantly do housekeeping and also hesitate whenever I want to take new pictures/ videos. There are also hardly any games or apps in my phone bcos memory space is so very precious now.

Then, for the recent months, I realized that I am constantly encountering errors when I tried to download the pictures to my computer. I have to keep disconnecting and connecting and ended up taking very long time and a lot of frustrations to transfer a few pictures. Sometimes, after trying for like forever, it still wouldn't work and I would lose out to the phone’s determination to keep the pictures to itself. Transferring videos is literally impossible. I read on the web that this seems to be a common issue with big files and I am nowhere near geeky to understand how to work around the issue. So all the more I do not use the camera function in my iphone now. Sad.

Recently, another problem appeared. I kept getting missed calls on my phone but I do not think I heard it rang or felt it vibrate. I came to realize that something must be wrong such that the phone automatically rejects the 1st time the caller tried to call in. Daddy Lim verified that. It doesn't happen every time but pretty often.

As you can tell, my smart phone isn’t all that smart now. It barely fulfills the minimal criteria of being a phone. I think I have been amazing to tolerate all its nonsenses thus far. I have been on iPhone since I started using smart phones but it now looks like the next one will be a Samsung. I need expandable memory! Now I know what I want for Christmas. Daddy Lim… hehehe.

Mummy Lim