My New Smart Phone

Yesterday was the last straw for my previous Samsung Notebook 4 Android smart phone. It was a great phone for everything but making a phone call.

The list of problems was probably more than it would be possible to list here but a few of the things that really bugged me were:

If the phone did ring sliding the phone icon to answer rarely worked so I would have to call the person back.
I couldn’t make a call near the hospital, on Oak Street near Santa Fe Red’s.
It would dial people while sitting in my pocket. I would hear this voice saying “Hello, Hello?” I had no idea who it called.
It would change the background on the home page.
It would send gibberish text messages to accounts that didn’t exist
It actually started a group on Facebook called “9,” and invited several of my contacts.
There were many instances when pulling it out of my pocket I would see a page or function I never saw before.
Pressing the message icon would give you the camera sometimes.

I probably should have named it Poltergeist. The guy at the phone store thought it was probably some kind of virus.

That’s a stock answer that always works because there is always little evidence to refute it.

The New Phone

You might think I would kick that Samsung brand to the curb but no I got another one just like it.

Does that make any sense? I did save $4 a month on the bill but bought a $25 case to protect it. So my savings will start in 6 months.

Why did I go for the same brand and kind of phone? Screen size is the short answer.

My aging eyes need a little help in reading the Facebook and Business Insider stuff.

The good news is I have two weeks to evaluate this phone and see if it has some of the same ghostly features of the previous one.

When the phone locked up and I had to go a full day without it I have to admit it was uncomfortable.

I don’t have to pull it out every ten seconds to text or look at something but I do like the security of it being in my pocket.

What if I broke down? The phone would be a God Send. Unless I was by Santa Fe Red’s or at the hospital or a couple of other dead spots in town.

So we’ll see how things go this next two weeks. How’s your smart phone working?

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