I have a phone again

More than a month ago, my old smartphone suffered an um, catastrophic failure. The screen's backlight came on, but otherwise refused to display anything. The phone seemed to work otherwise. In the process of disassembling it, I discovered internal damage on the main board.

Lacking funds to replace the phone (yay, therapy bills) I opted to pop the SIM out and into a five-year-old Nokia 1028b. Going from a full-featured android smartphone to a bottom-of-the-barrel budget phone (and that's when it was new!) wasn't as much of a shock as I'd expected. Sending text messages on a numeric keypad was annoying, but that was balanced by the fact that the five-year-old battery lasted for more than a week between charges, not to mention being less than half the size and weight. It's simply more comfortable in my pocket.

Yesterday, I finally got a replacement for my old phone. It's an identical model, so I was able to just restore the last backup I'd made. Yay for cyanogenmod on a rooted phone! A flurry of package updates later.. I've missed the ability to read my email and do other connectivity things (hello, jabber!) on my phone.

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