New phone, who dis??

 Ahh it’s finally happened.

No, stop fretting, it’s not anything bad bad…. (Depends on which angle you look at it though) but my beloved Samsung Note 9 phone is starting to give up on me 💔.

You know something, but this phone has tried for me. Four years and counting is definitely not beans! And I’ve come to love the quiet steady functionality of the Note 9.

Nobody will accuse me of ever being a gadget freak, (unlike one of my older brothers who I will not mention 😏) but when it comes to mobile phones, once it functions well and can perform all it’s supposed to do, while still wowing me with some new features I didn’t even know about, then, I’m happy and satisfied with it.

A couple of weeks ago, my beautiful phone started showing end-of-life signals by having this weird screen flickering and multi-colour display. Now, even though I know it might not be the end of the road, however, once your phone screen starts acting up and behaving funny like this, it’s time to change it. (Okey, please rebuke these thoughts of Computer Village from your head biko!!)

Chioma has been very indifferent to my pain as she’s been urging me to get a new one for a while now..😁.. Also seeing as this Note 9 was a very benevolent gift from my awesome cousin Emeka many years ago, I have sadly come to the conclusion that it may be time to get a new one. I'm just dreading the stress that'll come with all the app migrations and backup restorations. I'm also sure there'll be some form of data loss somewhere seeing as this phone has tons of stored stuff everywhere.

Google Pixel phone? Another Samsung step up? Do I switch lanes entirely and go the iPhone route? Would another Android brand work better? Which is the most cost-efficient, yet functional and sleekly styled phone around sef?

Decisions decisions..