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New phone

Well, I finally got fed up with my dinosaur of a phone and ordered a new one.

I had been using an Alcatel Pop 5.5 which had been getting slower and slower by the day.

It really just didn’t have enough internal storage (8GB) or RAM (1GB) to handle all of the updates that were constantly coming out for every little app.

My new phone is actually fairly old from 2015 but has good specs. I bought a Samsung S6 Active. It’s built tough for drops, and shocks and is waterproof.

It has 32GB storage and 3GB RAM so I shouldn’t have too much trouble with my apps just yet.

The phone is fast, it has an octa-core processor and loads Pokémon Go quite fast. In fact, the phone has a blue button on the side that can launch a preset app. I’ve got that set to Pokémon Go 😀

Signal

I have been having a terrible time with my phone service and the GPS. I don’t know if it’s the tall buildings, electrical interference, or even poor coverage.

I use Consumer Cellular with no issues back home (NC), but here in the city (NY), it has been a crapshoot. Using my phone on the subway is the worst, with all of the ups, downs, tunnels, bridges, and nausea-inducing turns.

Even at the apartment, the GPS thinks I am across the way. Sometimes it wanders or just loses connection.

I’ve got four more days of this, so I probably won’t play much Pokémon Go until I get back to JFK for my flight to North Carolina.