128/366: Shiny!

It seems appropriate to use a power-of-two day for a new digital device, so here’s a photo of my new phone:

My new phone on the wireless charger.

Getting and setting this up took up much of yesterday. It’s a Droid Turbo, which is basically the Verizon-branded version of the 2015 equivalent of the Moto X I had previously. Yes, I know, Verizon is kind of unpleasant, but I do just enough travel that the better coverage they offer matters to me. And one of the regularly-cited grievances against them, that they don’t push out Android OS updates as often as other carriers, actually verges on a positive feature for me– I really hate it when I get a decent workflow established, and then a software update moves all the buttons around and eliminates or changes features I use all the time.

Anyway, it’s new, it’s shiny, the wi-fi works (one of the reasons I needed a new phone is that the wi-fi crapped out on the old one ages ago, and updates that were big enough that the phone would only download them over wi-fi have been piling up. And I’ve been overrunning my data plan because everything went via that rather than using the home wi-fi network. I’ve had it for less than 24 hours, so I’ve still got a bunch of playing to do to discover new features, but right now, I need to get back to doing useful work.