I think it’s a good idea to pick up where I left off last month. Well, quite.
It turned out that the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 saga has ended because of the worse battery problem that came to light after the first recall.
The iPhone 7 and 7 Pluse still aren’t available here via Globe or Smart. And I guess that’s all I have about that.
For my next phone, I’m thinking, will I actually get the Xperia X Compact on January? And will it actually be released here? As it is, the Xperia XZ is in preorder and on display at the Xperia Store at Glorietta but the X Compact is nowhere to be seen. And the picture banner on the Sony Philippines microsite for the XZ preorder has XA written instead. Fail.
And talking about the Xperia Store, apparently extended warranty claims should be done on the memoxpress service center in Mandaluyong. I guess I’ll be spending more time with my Z1 Compact, now without the screen and back “glass” protectors.
I got to buy a spare phone, though, and I’m already using it mainly, though I still brought the Xperia in my bag after a week of having it also in my pocket. That’s practically a 2-week transition. The spare phone is a white LG K4 LTE. They didn’t have the indigo one in stock. I was pretty disappointed when I realized that I didn’t ask if that was a dual sim phone. I meant to hand it to my mother after the warranty process but oh well. Good thing is I got to buy her a replacement battery for her LG L40. Mhae also thought it would be nice if she bought the K4 from me later on and give it to Aboy.
TV shows. I got to watch an episode of Legends of Tomorrow on actual TV. Flash, Arrow, and Big Bang Theory, partly. What’s cooler is the same day showing (technically, next day) for Arrow, Big Bang, and Legends. I’m not sure about the schedule of The Flash and apparently Agents of SHIELD also shows on the same week on a different channel on cable.
I got through season 6 of South Park this month and it was very smart. Yeah, I kinda missed Kenny but Butters is a real winner in my books. I’m really considering getting the game on PC.
And sepaing of PC, finally got to (1) get a Sapphire Nitro+ RX480 4GB; (2) get a Canon Lide 120 scanner; and (3) clone my 1TB RAID 1 drives to one of the 3TB drives I got last July (wow, that was 3 months ago). Yep, I’ve decided to not go RAID 1 on my harddrives and the 2nd 3TB drive will serve as a manual backup drive.
I’ve been running to some bluecreens lately and I think it has something to do with the 3TB drive being more than 2TB. Interestingly, I’m only using just above 1TB on my drive. The urgency of reviving my main PC rises. As for the videocard, I came across a post-purchase realization that I could have opted for and RX470 instead. Nevertheless, I would still be underusing it had I gotten that. Haha. I came to rationalize that I’ll probably make use of this card longer.
So yeah, a good number of wins this month in tech.
