I've been forced to update my mobile phone as the '2G' and '3G' mobile phone networks are being phased out. Last time I upgraded my phone it took an hour or two to set it up and copy over the contacts. Contacts were a simple matter of name and number, to be copied to the SIM Card, then to the new phone.
Now it will take me several days to do the same job. Each contact now has lots of details (even custom ringtones and profiles) and the size of the data means that most of this must be entered manually. The phone itself is hugely slow compared to the 10-year old one. Not slow in processing power, but in poor interface. Every click demands another menu or confirmation, and text entry is slower. Doing anything now takes 50% longer. Something like this, two or three 8-hour days of full time admin, happens with every 'upgrade' for no benefit other than slower and less efficient communication. Utterly frustrating.
Well, today I've start work on 'upgrading' my 320-or-so contacts. I can, now, copy these to my computer and edit them in Google Contacts, but this too is precarious. It's slow itself (long pauses just to edit each record), but also threatens to 'sync' with my main Google contacts, when I must keep these separate.
I'll do the best I can.
Slowly onwards I must move.
