It all started yesterday morning! My sister was trying to call me and was directed to my voice mail each time...no ringtone on my phone. Something was amiss. Once she texted me the problem, I then went out on Bud's phone and called MY phone. Nothing...no ringtone. Sent to voice mail. Hmmmm. I called our phone carrier. The two of us went thru the whole spiel of possible problems. Still no fix. I then set up an appointment to go "In Store". Find out, there was no fix other than reestablishing new software. Some how it all got corrupted. That would cost to get it fixed. Still, it was time to get upgraded to 5G...for my birthday Bud and I got new smartphones! They will also be for Bud's birthday in April. Wow, smartphones are outrageous in price these days! Some were more than a $grand$!!! Our old ones were Samsung [which served us well over the last 15 years, from flip phones to smartphones]. This time, 5G since in the near future everyone will probably need to upgrade to that. 4G seems to be going out of service for a lot of carriers, or the fact that there will be no support for those soon. And, we wanted to go with the age 55+ plan that will save us money in the long run. Everything is unlimited and 100 GB of hotspot a month, if I need it to use for the laptop or desktop since we have no cable anymore...it'll be only...mostly... to blog. [I like composing blog posts on a large screen compared to the small window and keyboard of a cell phone]. Anyway, I got my email accounts up and running, I transferred [smart switch] all my contact photos and phone #s along with all the info on each contact. Got my two blog log-in set up in Google with only one Security Alert from Google...yay. Transferred all my bookmarks and favorites to the phone. It's still a work in progress but, I'm moving along.
Thanks everyone, for all the well wishes yesterday!!!