I was a late adopter of smart technology.
My first smartphone was a 2012 model that I purchased in 2013.
I remember that it had a fine camera on it for the time, however it’s nowhere near as nice as the current phone I have in our arsenal. It has three different lenses on the back of it for a single. The combined shots are superimposed on a single another in real time, adding to a sharper and more vivid image in the end. Since I’ve started uploading videos to Youtube and Instagram about our music hobby, our current smartphone has doubled as a camera. I think grateful for having a unit that can do both so seamlessly. But I’ve come to adopt other forms of smart technology over the years as well. I have a smart media air cleaner that I purchased multiple years ago with a gift card to the hardware store I earned from our wife as a gift. The current media air cleaner could be controlled with an app that we each downloaded to our respective phones so we could control the fan settings from bed. After enjoying the freedom of smart controls on an media air cleaner, we finally took the plunge and purchased a smart thermostat as well. While we let our HVAC worker install the smart thermostat itself, we felt love we were capable of downloading the app ourselves to control it remotely. Now that we have the current smart thermostat synced with our phones, we’re romantic the ability to adjust it from bed separate from ever having to get up. This will come in handy when it gets frigid outside and we start using our oil furnace again.