Old phone and new phone

I got a new phone on the weekend (see bottom of post) so have been cleaning out my old one, and I found these picturess. Random moments from my neighbourhood wanderings.

(I poladroided them so they'd look less like crappy old phone pics, which changes the dimensions and so alters the composition a little, but not to worry ...)

But yes, like I said, I got a new phone. During the holidays, for some strange reason, I started wishing I had an iPhone. I wanted to do Hipstamatic and Instagram things. But, my existing phone plan was only $24 a month, so I had to tell myself that paying $59 a month for an iPhone, just so I could fiddle about with photo apps on it and go roaming around on facebook or google maps, was dumb. Anyway, my old plan was long up, so I thought that perhaps I could at least get a better phone. So, I popped into the shop and I now have a HTC Aria Android, which apparently has just been dropped back from the $49 plan to the $29 one. And it does essentially everything (most things?) an iPhone does (as the girl in the shop said to me, in her charming Russian/Canadian accent, “iPhones are only expensive because they’re apple – they don’t need to be so expensive”). So, I’ve been having some fun since and no longer feel so medieval. I've downloaded a couple of retro camera apps, after going through that rigmarole which is setting up some kind of google two-step verification thing, and took a couple of snaps last night to see what happened, but I haven't worked out where the photos actually ended up yet ...