geek reconciliation

It isn't just cameras. I've overdone other tech purchases as well! 

Phones are today's topic. 

My wife and I used to get matching phones, but as her iPod aged she thought we should become Apple-ites and we picked up 4c twins. I could not handle the Appleisms after a brief time, but she continued with it, and now has an XE or somesuch (like a compact iPhone 10.5?).

I had somehow managed to get into Mototypes and liked them. I cannot recall how I ended up with a white and a black E:2nd-gen, though somehow it made 'sense' at the time. Update! I believe the white E² went into our hot tub for 10-15 seconds, so I deemed it dead. It got better, going for a walk!

Team Moto - E² on top, e5Play below left,
G Power2020 below right

At that point I joined Home Depot and needed to use their app - frequently! Our local Target sold phones for my carrier, and I got a decent price on an e5/ Play. It's a bit larger than E² but not much, and it holds its own for power and storage. Not really much faster on the HD wifi though, as both are 4G capable.. but easier to read fine print on the larger screen!

Then I bought a camera with a usb:C port.

My wife was already transitioning from the wide port of the iPhone4 era to Lightning, and now I was in the USB micro-to-C changeover? Ugh! 

Beyond that, I was finding storage to be a problem on the new/improved phone, as more and more space is used by Android OS and updated apps. So I found a Moto G Power with more memory, more battery life, usb:C, and .. well to be nice, it's a large skinny beast that isn't in my comfort zone.

As Bill the cat said so well, and so often: GAK.

Long story short: the usb:C-ported camera is gone for now, and I'm back on the µUSB phone (in this case, the E5p). I'll also let the usb:C tablet go away as it's now the odd duck out of luck.

My wife and I are still trying to puzzle out how to get her CD xfers along with the Apple Music system to port across to the new phone so the iPod Classic can fail without a sonic catastrophe.

Ah the progress of technology. What did I learn profanity for, other than such times as these?

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2nd Update - the software for the eM1 will not function with Android 5.1 on the E², so the E5/play will take over instead. So close..

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3rd update! I found an archived copy of the v4.2 Olympus APK (it went to 4.4x before becoming OMD 1.0) and it works OK on the E²+eM1 - so I'm back at it again with the 'tiny' phone. I forgot how much I liked the Lollipop era of Android, where changing bluetooth/network devices wasn't four button presses away.