Squeezing More Life Out of My "Memory Challenged" Smart sic Phone

In my attempts to squeeze more life/use/time out of my rather retarded Galaxy S II, I've been deleting photos. It has just an 8 whatever it's called  memory, and when I tried to get something to expand the memory, I was told that it wouldn't help for the "operating systems," the "apps." The card I added was only for photos and stuff like that. 

Within a few months of buying the phone, when it was still fully covered by service, I already couldn't edit photos. The phone camera totally froze. Twice I ran back to the store to wake it up. Sort of like "code red" in the hospital!

When I got the new memory card, I had to reprogram the phone so that the photos would go there for storage. Apparently it now does. The salesman should have told me how to store photos from day one, which would have saved me a lot of aggravation. The truth is that I should never have bought that phone. I should have gotten a much more memory powerful one. Now I'm drooling over a 64 memory and hope that I can delay purchase until I can get one even stronger or at least when the 64's go down in price.

Even with the "expanded storage memory," my phone is "limited." I hadn't been able to update the few remaining apps, even the ones I use all the time like chrome and whatsapp. I've deleted almost all the others, the Bible, Siddur etc. 

In a desperate move last night, I deleted over three hundred, yes, 300 photos. I just saved a couple of those to G+, and here they are.

Yes, they are attractive, but if deleting photos from the pre-memory card addition will mean a better chance and price for the Galaxy 7 64 memory or a similar phone, then it's worth it.

There still are hundreds of photos, which I plan on putting in one of those album/books. Then I'll clean out many more. Finally, last night, when chrome nudged me with one of those "out of date" notices, it actually updated, instead of announcing that my phone had "insufficient memory to complete the update." On a roll, I also, found some downloads (which had been hidden) to delete and some sms conversations/messages.

In today's world, one is always caught in a smartphone saga, because it's getting impossible to live without it.

Craving a New, Better and Smarter Smartphone

When I got my Galaxy II smartphone just over two years ago, after it had been recommended by neighbors, I thought it was a good choice. In the beginning it seemed to do almost anything I could possibly expect from a phone, but I was much too soon brought to the reality that I had been sold a can of worms. It's just too dumb for my needs. A few weeks after I got my phone, I went to the states, and with the help (an order to her Amazon account) my cousin's wife got my son his Nexus, which has--even today-- plenty of memory, quadruple what my phone has. His phone did cost more, but he hasn't had to reduce his apps to a rather anorexic amount like I have.

My son early on understood the advantages of a good smartphone. Long before I had even thought of getting one for myself, when my husband and I still didn't have internet on our phone (it would have cost us extra and didn't seem all that necessary) he would point to his phone and say:

"Here's my laptop."

Within less than a year (at least I could get free service during the time) of purchasing my smartphone, which wasn't all that cheap, I found that trying to edit a photo on my phone would cause the camera to freeze up, since the memory was insufficient. I've taken off almost all the apps I had added just to be able to update my very necessary Whatsapp. And the apps that came with the phone, which I never ever use, can't be deleted.

Now I just drool over the idea of getting an unlocked Galaxy 7; I don't need the fancier "edge" one. But I want a 64GB memory. Since my son got a phone with 32GB over two years ago, I realize that today I need even more for the phone to stay relevant throughout its lifetime.

But when I look at the prices, even in the states, I almost lose my appetite.