Jul. 28th, 2016

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Miranda will soon be starting secondary school, in Perth rather than our village, so now is the time to buy her a cellphone.

I have been happy with my first smartphone, a Moto E running Android, apart from the significant problem that since the upgrade from KitKat to Lollipop it has had space barely sufficient for updates to system applications (which must be on the internal storage) regardless of what extra I may wish to add. I am now at the point where I get warnings like could not add widget because I have had to disable so much to keep the cellphone usable. (I am not leaving apps running without their updates.)

So, should I just stay with the devil I know but aim for double the internal storage? I am open to counterproposals, especially if not-Android may not entail large internally stored updates.

Update: I am leaning toward the Alcatel Pop 4.
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I like to keep a local street map in the car. I have favored maps from Philip's as they show details well such as the structure of the lanes and ramps around intersections. I was hoping to buy a copy of their spiral-bound street atlas for Fife & Tayside which is where we do much of our driving. However, the latest edition is over four years old and has been out of print for some time with, the last I asked, no plans to print more.

Perhaps I should begin to favor some other publisher of maps. I wonder if this is a symptom of a greater problem though: satellite navigation (including the lady in my telephone) making paper maps less popular in general, less worth making and printing. That would be a shame.

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