i guess i am finally saying goodbye to apple ios. and back to the first smartphone brand i had when i started working back in maybe 2007? you will find out soon enough the brand.

after maybe 8 years of using iPhones and Apple products, it is inevitable that i will have to change to a more economical product, which at the end of the day, as i soon find out, could perhaps be much better than Apple.

my iPhone as it is, is throwing temperaments when it would suddenly die on me, or put on a sulking pause, or battery juice suddenly draining like nobody’s business especially when i am in a rush or i might be outside for longer than i thought. it can be so frustrating that i carried two phones, the other being a huawei for its battery strength. although i still use my iPhone all the time despite, everything. i was still stubbornly find android phones difficult to use. like where do i find its settings??

my husband has been telling me to switch over. ironically he was the one who lavished me with Apple products in the first place. macbook for 30th birthday, iPhones for whenever a new edition released, and latest was the Apple Watch for my birthday last year. he had stopped buying Apple products for himself but he still bought them for me. although he did now and then whispered to me to change to android, but i was just adamant or maybe loyal to Apple. until huawei two years ago convinced me because of its Leica lens. but it was for a specific use.

the last straw was few weeks ago, when i dropped my Apple watch and the screen cracked into pieces. we found out repairing it whether at the Apple service centre or at any vendor would cost him 2-3 hundred dollars. he kept on saying it was better to buy me a new one altogether, but not an Apple watch. he sworn off anything Apple, sigh, this guy.

after contemplating, and some convincing… he bought a Samsung Galaxy with some discount coupons he had from lazada, my only condition is i wanted something similar to him.

and just like that, i remembered i was due to recontract my phone. checked my singtel account to confirm and browsed through to see if there’s any phone economical and affordable if i really am to move away from Apple. saves me some hundreds of dollars. the thought of having to fork out $698 for a 64gb iPhone xs max with plan and go up to 1000$ if i wanted more gb, was really, heartbreaking. every dollar counts now that im paying for my own Masters course. it was no brainer in that sense.

and so since hubby already make that path for samsung, i chose a samsung galaxy note 9. i take it the pen kinda grabbed my attention. to convince myself to really look for something new that iPhone doesn’t have. blue caught my eye but i can’t love the yellow pen. so i settled for bronze. and i remembered my first Samsung smartphone was bronze too once upon a time ago.

and i found out that i had $100 voucher from singtel for a new handset! what a nice surprise! oh what bargain. we ended up paying on $98 for the phone! and i am a happy wife for not having my husband paid more for what he had already spent on me.

just like that, i became an android user overnight. im still using the iPhone say like a transition mode. already i had a hard time transferring my data from iPhone to android. only to realise it was easier doing it wireless. but then again, i lost my WhatsApp messages history. like nil zilch history. but what’s lost is lost. i can’t cry buckets for it. its done. no way i can retrieve it back, right? start anew, people say. i did felt my heart sanked when i realised i lost my nephew’s forwarded pics. but i realised his mom and his grandmother is a treasure trove of him. that was a relief!

and i am beginning to be surprised by samsung and android. samsung’s korean by the way (with the current korean obsession im having). there’s quite a lot to discover. i am enjoying both the watch and phone. happy that i can change to so many watch faces and wallpapers. cool stuff!

im keeping it simple at the moment. try not to have too many apps in my samsung. i could still be using my iPhone at the moment for my music. and i hope the phone can last for one two years more.

ps: it’s a bit senseless to be writing this, but im having some writing urge that i can’t quite express yet. you know those sudden impulse to write write. I’ve been having this since few days ago. it had something to do with my Ramadan. but its fine, it’ll get out soon enough.