New Phone

New Phone Selfie
An everyday just in from work look.

Recently I upgraded my phone to Samsung S25+; very happy.  I am a Samsung/Android user because I am predominantly a PC user with all my software development tool there. The iPhone and Apple sphere, I believe, has been coasting for a long time with few innovation. I am not saying that the iPhone and Apple OS are inadequate. However, technology history is littered with companies that felt their market domination precluded innovation. Two of the best examples are IBM and WordPerfect.

Customers will only ride outdated technology for so long. If you are exclusively an internet / cloud user and do not rely on file / folder copying / transferring, then the Apple iPhone / Mac OS likely works for you. 

I also do a lot of Remote Desktop and direct connect to client's computers to update software and troubleshoot. 

My four-year-old phone was still adequate although the new phone is years better. The new phone has a much improved camera and does allow direct folder access as a device connected to my Windows 11 PC.  Photo transfer and backup is much improved.  

Switching phones is never a simple process. One of the reason I had waited so long, although the upgrade was much improved from the last. In preparation for the change over I copied all of my photos to a local network drive and then deleted the photos from the phone. That greatly speedup the data and app transfer. The real daunting task was remembering e-mail passwords and account setup information. I have an outdated "Bellsouth" e-mail address which is now administrated by ATT/Yahoo. That took some doing to get re-setup. I should shutdown that e-mail address and use exclusively my G-mail account, but there is over 25-years of accounts attached. A someday project.  

In this post is a new phone selfie from a few days ago. I am enjoying the new camera. So far I do recommend the Samsung S25 products.