Is Newer Always Better?

            Earlier this week, my phone that I had owned for almost three years finally was dropped for the last time. Its durability had survived the numerous times I had dropped it, gotten it wet, and left it in extreme weather. Not only had it survived all of that but its battery charge would usually hold up to two days if not longer. Now granted, this was not a smart phone so I wasn’t able to tweet or update my Facebook status with the touch of a button, but I was still a very good phone.

 

When I had my enV touch, all I wanted was a smart phone, yet now that I have one I wish I had my enV touch back. I didn’t realize when I had my old phone how great it was to have the option of not charging your phone for a night and it still being able to survive the next day. My phone has always been my alarm to get up in the morning so now if I don’t charge my phone at night then I have no way of getting up in the morning. And despite the fact that my phone had been banged around over the years, my old phone still got much better reception than my new phone does.

 

So I guess what I’m really trying to say is how smart are these smart phones? I mean you would think with the technology we have today we could create a phone with a battery whose life could last several days, rather than several hours, and we could make the phone reception of the newer phones better than it was with the older phones. But I think what some people have forgotten is that they are phones first, not toys.