At last! After all the phone calls and frustration, the SIM card finally arrived and I managed to fit it in to start the phone going. I say I managed, but have any of you tried to fit a 'nano sim' card in a phone? The bloody thing is so tiny, my big fingers had a job holding it, and Sony have made the place you fit the damn thing in a pain.
There are two small trays to pull out, one for the SD card and one for the SIM. The cards do fit in obviously, but what a fiddle! I dropped the bloody thing on the floor several times, and it is so small I thought I had lost it for good!
But at last it is in and working, and it works well. The main thing you notice is the camera. With 21 mpx front facing and 13 mpx 'selfie' camera, this really is a good phone for camera work. Nearly as good as my main camera, although of course for serious work I would prefer to use that.
A quiet day today as the weather is just plain weird. Sunshine all morning, and sunshine now as I write, but then we get sharp bouts of rain, sleet, snow and hail all mixed together. Not something I enjoy being out in these days.
I am still waiting for this bloody SIM that I have been posting about. I was promised it on Saturday, and was told that it would be posted through the letterbox so there was no need to wait in. So we went out for the day, only to get a 'sorry we missed you' text later that day.
My blood pressure went through the roof, and as soon as I could I got on once again to Virgin mobile to tell them they could stuff the phone and I would cancel the contract. They said that they would take £15 off my bill and promised to send the SIM by post to arrive today. My patience has been tested to the limit now, and if this bloody SIM does not arrive they can stuff the contract where the sun does not shine.
On Saturday we went out to Merthyr for a few hours. The sun was shining and it was just to get a bit fresh air. Not that Merthyr has that much of it! Just a walk around and a bit of shopping and lunch to get out of the house. The day before was damp and miserable and we stayed in most of the day.
Then out to lunch on Sunday as we do nearly every week. All that cooking and washing up for one meal is not worth it. Find a nice pub and let them serve you these days is the way to go.
And that is about it for today. I have a funeral to go to this afternoon, or at least I will be driving my partner there and waiting for her. It is her ex and the children's father, so I am just doing the taxi work and waiting. I did not know him so there is little point in going in.
Have a nice day all!!
As I wrote yesterday, I have decided that my present mobile phone is not suitable, and had ordered a new one.I was told that it would be delivered today and of course waited most of the day for it. It finally turned up at about three this afternoon.
I got unpacking it to get it going, and of course the first thing you do is to transfer your SIM and memory card into it. (Or at least I do as I want to keep the same number) But no, it is not that easy. I was told that I could transfer my old SIM and that would be no problem.
It turned out that it would be a problem after all as the bloody SIM would not go in. I managed to get the memory card in after some fiddling, (and actually checking the instructions properly!) but the SIM this phone takes is a nano or micro SIM. And of course this happened to be the only bloody phone that did not come with one!
So on to Virgin mobile to explain the situation, and the nice young lady there said yes we can send one out, but it will not come for another 24 hrs. A complete waste of a day again. Why cannot they get these things right in the first place?
So, what else did I do today? Apart from some housework, nothing. A boring waste of a day again, all for a bloody phone.
Today I decided to upgrade my phone. Nothing special about that, but I have only had my present phone for less than six months.
I use Virgin mobile for my phones, and on the whole have had no problems with them. I changed my phone just under two years ago for a Samsung mini S4. As a phone it worked well, but of course these days we all use our phones for so much more don't we? I soon found that using Facebook or checking out the web, reading emails was a bit to much for my eyes, and as I am a bit hard of hearing, the sound was not that good.
So a few months ago I bought my own phone just changed over the SIM card and used that. I bought a Doro Liberto 820. This in particular because it was supposed to have a clear sound and as a largish phone would suit my needs. As around £200, it was not the most pricey either. If you need a simple to use phone, this is not to bad, but check out below.
At first I was pleased with the phone. The sound is certainly very clear and the icons are easy to use. But as the months went on, certain things began to niggle. For one thing it has a small internal memory, so it quickly became full and I had to delete a few apps. Not what you expect on a modern phone.And it is quite slow. When you have finished with an app and want to get back to the menu, it takes ages to do it. And it also does not have a 'call blocker'. With the amount of nuisance calls we all get these days, I would say that is vital. In the end I had to download a security app to block calls.
So as the contract was up in just a short time, I called Virgin to see what they could come up with. After looking through the options, I decided on a Sony Experia M5.With a 5" screen, 16gb of internal memory, and a 21mpx camera, I decided that would do for me. I still have to see what the sound is like and when it comes tomorrow it will get checked out. But these days I seem to use them on loudspeaker anyway, so it should be OK. If you are interested click on the link for a review. I will be paying a similar amount to my old phone, so I hope it suits me.
So what else have I been up to today? Denise had to go home as she was not feeling well, so caught a bus to town with my son. A bus you say! Well he has a prepaid card, and I have a free bus pass, so what the heck, why not. I bought a new fleece jacket as mine had gone home, and then we went for a bite to eat. We chose somewhere that neither of us had been before, the Cozy Club in the Hays area of Cardiff. And very nice it was as well. With a 'retro' look, the food was delicious and not badly priced either. And that really has been that. Not to busy a day, and now I am going to sit down and catch up with some TV.
