New Tech??

 My phone has been acting up for a while, I have an iPhone XR and when I got it there was already about 4-ish years (unless my memory is severely damaged) of use on it. For an iPhone 4 years might as well be ancient, Apple is on the iPhone 18 at this point I think?? I'm pretty much closing in on a 10 year old phone. Lately it's been randomly saying there was no SIM available and I've been needing to go in and pop it in and out a few times, which at first I thought was because of a fall but then it kept happening and it wasn't even a bad fall. I had switched to the HMD Barbie flip phone for about 7 months actually BUT the phone worked kind of slow in a way and felt overall clunky and not great to be using as my everyday phone, then there's the issue of things on modern phones that I kind of need. At work they'll have me pull my phone out to download things, scan QR codes, and open documents sometimes which I can't do as well/at all on that flip phone. I was looking around for something I could actually use without needing to keep a second device on me just in case my phone couldn't do the thing I need a phone for, I saw the Gia phone and I have hopes for it I would really love one.

A lot of phones made today that are made to be nostalgic still have the vibe of something more modern and minimalistic and often make a fully "dumb" phone that knocks off actual necessities. I said I wanted less social media, not have a harder time accessing my bank account unless I have a separate device or have everything all the way down to the camera being slow. I know some people may think "well why not just delete social media" because it feels useless to have and spend money on a SMART phone (that more or less looks like the same rectangle as all other phones with yet another camera added onto it and IN MY OPINION boring cases) if I'm only gonna be using the most basic of basic apps for the most part, why not have a cuter phone that gets the job done. The size is also important to me, I don't like big phones even my phone now feels too big and newer iPhones are even bigger than that, the latest one literally flips to about a mini tablet size (I'm not even gonna touch on the fact that Samsung and Huawei did it first AND better). This phone overall excites me and I really hope I'm able to make it my main phone, fingers crossed because I do really need a new phone.

More info if you're also interested in the phone: https://www.giaphone.com/