Thinking of combining my personal phone and work phone into one

invalid@example.com (mikeymikec), mikeymikec
Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:48:42 +0000
Mobile Devices

I'm self-employed. Historically I've used my landline as my primary point of contact, but my ISP has seemingly botched the analog line to digital voice service migration, leaving me with a situation of a landline that receives some (maybe even most) phone calls, and other callers get "number not recognised".

Unless my ISP pulls a rabbit out of a hat, I've resigned myself to changing my primary point of contact to my work mobile number, and logically if it's going to take more work on and become more indispensable, I should upgrade from my very ageing Moto G5 (Android 8.1). My personal phone isn't as old (Nokia 8.3, Android 12).

If the whole "bigger is better" mobile phone war hadn't happened then I would have been reasonably happy to get a replacement work phone of a similar size to my Moto G5, but that's not on the cards apparently.

As things currently are, carrying two phones is a bit of an irritation, and will become more irritating when summer comes (being a guy, handbags...