I had been using the same phone for about the last six years and it was time for an upgrade.

The phone itself worked okay, but the battery didn't hold a charge for very long,

and the charging cable would never stay in place.

It was really, really annoying.

I'd have to struggle just to get it plugged in

just right, or it would never charge.

And then just the slightest bump or movement would knock the cable out again.

Every morning I'd wake up and just like many people the first thing I do is reach for my phone

So I'd grab my phone and the battery would be dead. It was really really frustrating

Now I know a little bit, just a little bit, about computers and phones and electronics.

I'm by no means an expert, but I've done some simple repairs on phones and computers in the past, like changing

out screens or hard drives. So I realized that it was probably just a problem with the charging connector and I tried my

best to clean my old phone and to try and fix the problem but it didn't really help

too much so I figured that my phone probably had a major problem with the charging

port and the battery and it was on it was

when I was able to get the phone to charge the camera on it was starting to

show its age and I'd noticed that I pretty much stopped taking photos with that camera altogether.

Recently when we rang in the new year, I went back through my photo album for 2022

and I was really disappointed with how many photos I had taken last year.

I think the reason why I didn't take too many photos was mostly due to the fact that the camera didn't take great pictures anymore.

So for all of these reasons I decided to bite the bullet and get a new phone. My name's Andrew and this is Bonus Episode 37 of the Culeps English podcast.

Today I'm going to share with you a funny story that happened to me when I was shopping for a case for my new phone.

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