I Bought My First Smartphone

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I bought my first smartphone recently which is about a year before I planned on doing so. When I bought my recent dumbphone I got it from a Sears in our mall and it went out of business in our area last year or the year before. Within six months the back-light seemed to die and I wasn't able to use it for a few hours. Eventually, my alarm went off and woke the phone up making it usable again. (I don't think it was going into sleep mode as it wasn't accessible no matter what I tried, it was just that when the alarm rang it was as if my phone was raised from the dead). I've had that phone for three years now, and it's gone black three times. The most recent time was a couple of weeks ago. My one worker overslept and thankfully I'd already sent him the address where we were working. He, or at least I think all the texts I received were from him, sent me several texts which didn't wake the thing up. It wasn't until he actually called my number that the phone woke up and I was able to use it again. All my numbers are stored there. I do have several on my home phone, but I have no way to access them when away from the house. I decided it was time for a different phone. Our store was having a special that week so my husband and I went shopping and each bought the same phones. They are still pre-paid phone plans and we'll be paying the minimum due for a basic plan. They will have data, but barely any at all and it will be slow. For the discount we needed to purchase a $50.00 internet card for the first month and then we got 20% off each phone. We opted for almost the cheapest ones we sell for a Verizon plan and paid just under twenty-five dollars each. We can upgrade later on when I get all our bills paid off and maybe have a normal plan. I tried to write my discussion done yesterday from my new smartphone. In fact, I did write it in that manner, but I had to do some major editing once I returned home from work. It's an Android phone and like my tablet when I'm typing words it tries to guess where I'm going. On my tablet I can click on the correct word and keep typing away, but on the smartphone when I use the words that come up it provides a period after the word and then begins a new sentence. Because I can't see the writing screen while the keyboard is up, it was difficult to make changes as I went, so that's why I opted to wait until I was on my desktop before making it right. Originally, in the discussion I explained why all the typing mistakes and a few comments were related to that. This is what I said then: (I'll have to finish this at home as I am on my new smartphone. Are any of you able to post a discussion using a smartphone, or do you mainly just do comments on them or maybe only like posts? When I type, the dialog box disappears to allow me to view the whole keyboard. I've discovered how to check it from time to time, but I can't see it as I type. Whenever I opt to use one of the phone's suggested words, it thinks it's the end of the sentence and will not let me remove the period it puts in. So it makes for choppy writing that doesn't make a lot of sense.) Okay, I'm home now and can make this right.