After a two year love-hate relationship (more hate than love), I’ve dumped my smarty pants Samsung phone. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Well, it was more knackered than me and needed feeding twice a day just to keep the lights on. Not so smart, after all. In any case, my stumpy little fingers struggled to get to grips with the tiny touch screen – I was forever firing up fancy apps that I neither wanted nor understood. Tales of my idiocy even reached the Capital, as evidenced by the birthday card I received from my sister-in-law last year (above).
Sorry, Samsung, I just don’t love you anymore. Time to move on.
When I popped into town to browse for alternatives, the arsy child with the bugger-off face at the Virgin Media shop was less than helpful so I decided to dump them too. I can do that. I’m the customer. Step forward a well-known supermarket chain with a doddle-to-use website, cheaper tariffs and no hidden extras. Its core business may be going down the pan along with its shareholder’s dividends, but its phone offer is crystal-clear. Now I have a brand new Nokia Lumia and, so far, it’s more love than hate. I’d never understood why the nation’s yoof was so glued to their smart-arse phones that they would walk into lamp posts and trip over the homeless. Until now, that is. I was so impressed that I got Liam one too. Now we sit for hours, side-by-side ignoring each other. I guess that’s what you call progress.
Perking the Pansies 
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I have a Samsung as well and can never hit the correct letters or numbers on the keyboard. I have mine only for emergencies, but I get a headache typing in my password. I’m all fingers or maybe all toes. 😦
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I got so pissed off with the keypad that I removed the password and I gave up on texting altogether!
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I don’t know how other people do it. Grr.
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Great visual of the two of you! Finding your true match of a smart phone is rewarding though.
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A true match in phone AND partner, the key to a happy life 😉
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just a few weeks back our not so smart phone gave up the ghost – sweat does that to electronics I’m told, so it was time for a new one. Our jolly cep man rubbed his hands and pulled out what looked like a bunch of mini laptops ‘Everyone is using these1’ he assured us. He spent 20 mins trying to convince us – not a hope! We want a phone that is just a phone, no camera, nothing. He was aghast – so aghast that he had to go off somewhere (I suspect a dusty basement) and aquire one. We are now the proud owners of the cheapest, most plasticy bit of simplistic tech you can imagine – it pulls in load and clear from the weakest signal and the charge last weeks! It does have one bit of advanced stuff on it – FM radio, but I haven’t figured out how to plug in an earphone.
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You’re just like me dear old Mum. She’s got a 5 quid Nokia!
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I haven’t taken a photo of my ear yet, but my ear keeps putting my phone on mute. i’m used to phones that you put your ear to, not hold hovering about 5 inches away.
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Me too. Doesn’t it drive you mad? Our new phones don’t do that.
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On more than one occasion I’ve been tempted to chuck my iPhone out the window at the nearest overpass. But alas, I’m a slave to technology.
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We all are. Tis the life we lead 😀
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