New Phone, Who Me?

     For years, I carried an iPhone, mostly for work and web-browing, and an Android that was on another carrier that had all my family contacts.  Its predecessor was my "Mom phone," with a distinctive ringtone for her calls and mostly used for only that purpose.  I'd bought the replacement online, without having held it.

     That was a mistake: it was too big.  The touchscreen worked differently in small but annoying ways.  I missed text messages often.  Eventually, the screen got cracked, and cracked again, including a really nasty divot.  (I'll say this for screen protectors, though: it took a lot of impacts and even after the screen started breaking, the protector held it together well enough.)  And then it stopped taking a charge.  The frame was bent, too, and when I coaxed it to turn back on, the OS had crashed.  The phone was over six years old.

     There matters sat for over a month.  I kept putting off taking it back to the phone store and then realized I could just move the SIM card.  There's a reputable secondary market in cell phones, and maybe I could find something decent....

     Yesterday, I fired up a refurbed iPhone SE, one of the recent models, and since I had my contacts stored on the card, they popped right up.  It's what I think is the right size for a phone (YMMV) and it mostly does what I expect.  The only touchy thing was moving the card over without touching the contact side -- or sneezing while I did the job.  It's different enough to my work phone that I can tell them apart, and similar enough that I'm not having to code-switch when moving from one to the other.