And the Phone Gods Smiled

Recently, I was complaining about my cell phone and how 16 GB of space wasn't nearly enough. I also mentioned that it's a company phone and I was stuck. Well, maybe not so stuck after all. I was telling my manager about my issues with the phone and he asked if I was due for an upgrade. Yes, I was. In fact, my phone was three years old so I was a year past eligible. He told me to order a new one. :-) And the day after it was approved, I had my new phone!

It's an iPhone 8 and it has 64 GB of RAM. 64 GB!!!

I actually could have all my apps on my phone at the same time, have my podcasts, and a couple of audio books and there was still space. OMG! It also solved my battery issues. My old phone literally had about an hour of use and then I'd be at 20% or below.

It also solved another issue. My old phone had stopped working with my car speakers. I could still connect the phone to the car, but it wouldn't let me play my podcasts through the sound system. That meant I was saving the podcasts I wanted to listen to on my commute to a thumb drive and plugging it into the car. That meant I had to shuffle it in and out as I completed episodes and new ones were building. It also meant that I needed to be at the end of the episode I was listening to otherwise it would start it from the beginning when I returned the drive to the car.

Why didn't I just listen to my podcasts from the phone? Battery life. If I plugged the phone into the car to keep the battery charged, the podcasts went silent. If I didn't plug the phone in, the battery wouldn't make the commute home--not with my traffic app and the podcast app running at the same time.

There aren't words for how excited I am to have a new phone.