Time for a new phone?

For a guy who spends a lot of money on Apple gear for my office, I’m also a guy who almost never updates his phone. My current fondle box is an old iPhone 11.

I mostly use it for reading stuff in news apps and on Substack and for listening to music, podcasts and audiobooks. I’ve recently been dictating into it, because the speech recognition in Microsoft’s iOS Word app is pretty good, and I like to walk around the office while I talk. Like everyone else, my photos app is full of sandwiches, pets and receipts.

Honestly, I’d probably just run my old 11 into the ground, but unfortunately I have already run my old 11 into the ground. The battery is now so depleted that a full charge only lasts about two hours.

Actual image from my desk right now.

So the time has come, as it does every six or seven years.

Time to give Tim some money.

Yes, I could just replace the battery, but the 11 is teetering on the edge of obsolescence, which has an actual real-world meaning. No more software updates. No security patches and an ever-decreasing ability to even run new apps.

I’m thinking I’ll probably go with the smaller Pro model, because I’ve never had good zoom capability on my camera. And those sandwich photos aren’t gonna take themselves from a kilometre away.

And please feel free to try talking me into a Samsung or Pixel. I do so miss the days when our culture wars were all about mobile platforms and not the end of civilisation.