My Phone's Dying

Phone's dying.  It's 4 years old.  Memory's full, very full.   And now, I'm told it's being discontinued.  Gotta go from 4 g to 5 g.   By Christmas.  Sheesh, that soon?

Okay, if I gotta do that, may as well do it now before the big vacation and get a new cell phone with a great camera.

Researching begins.  Talk to friend who shares great pictures.  

Talk to sis who multi-tasks.  For example, while on the phone with me she checks her calendar, responds to other calls, and accesses stored pics.  Why, she can talk to me while she sends me a pic of what she's talking about....in the words of a child actor,  "How u do dat?"

I talk to nephew-in-law who's a successful cell phone salesman.  

Talk to all others, the brothers, and I research online.  Finally decided to shop, hands on.

"To Best Buy we go, hi ho the dairy oh, to Best Buy we go."

Then began the number crunching.  I mean they entered my brain and they piled up in there in a junk heap and then I had to crunch them.  With a mental shut down I crunched the numbers. 

My phone has 16 gb memory, camera has 5 pixels.  The Samsung Galaxy has 50 pixels, 200 mb and 2 gigs.  The one hubby loves Moto G is 5g, 48 mp and you don't have to sign a contract.  Then there's the new A53 coming out Wednesday which compares with the A52, and there's Google 6 which is a notch above the Google 4.  Motorola was the life long choice of one person.  The best is SSGX (Samsung Galaxy) S22 but needs to be willed away when you die.

The female clerk at Best Buy dropped her jaw when I pulled out of my purse my little blue case protected ZTE android phone.   

I told her, "Everyone's been saying, "You need to update."  But I've had this one 4 years."  I added, "It has 1,398 photos on it!"

With bugged eyes and open mouth, that clerk made an exhaled sound of disbelief,  "I've never ever seen a phone like that!"

 "To Xfinity we go, hi ho the dairy oh, to Xfinity we go."   

There's a nice display at Xfinity in their new building with a bent to selling phones not cable tv service.  The cell phone I was interested in had a little blue square paper of info affixed just below it.  The first line read "Get $200 off any iPhone at Xfinity Mobile."

So, I took my little blue cased android ZTE phone up to the clerk, "Do you think they'll give me $200 for this?"

Abrupt, succinct, he barely bothered to look as he kept typing. "No."

"Well, then, do you think they'd give me $20 for it?"

"Lady, they wouldn't want it!"

  

I love my little phone.  

It's been a journey, it's been with me through thick and thin, the east coast, exotic islands, grandkids, documenting injuries and wrecks, and a lifeline to family and friends.  

When the salesman removed the protective cover to check it's model number there was liquid under it.  Out came the wet wipes, as he chuckled, "We'll blame the grandkids."

So, my phone has been dying.

It's a case of natural causes.