have just changed from a very simple easy to hold easy to text mobile phone to an all singing all dancing swipey touch screen that's double the size of my last phone and calls just about all my contacts if I as much as breath too heavy near it...arghhhhhhhhhh surely I'm not getting old
phones are to ring people,why would anyone want it to do more than that.Gimmicks to get money out of us.And 3g is crap,my works phone uses it,hardly works anywhere in derbyshire,it freezes and im constantly having to turn it off and on again,we also have a 3g wi fi box to use our tablets in the van and that never works well either.Enjoy your phone
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You'll get used to it! But I agree, a newer, fancier model isn't necessarily better. I've changed phones recently and the battery doesn't last half as long as the battery on my old phone which I'd had about three years.
I agree Sarah, my old Nokia phone needed a once a week charge my new Lumia smartphone needs a charge daily, and now l have ended up running the two of them with the old one as a PAYG backup phone incase l run out of battery power whilst on the go.
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Yep I have an iPhone for work, piece of rubbish, battery needs charging every day.
My own personal phone is the Aldi Rugged Phone, which will stand being dropped into a bucket of water, try that with a smart phone.
My last personal phone was the Nokia 113, got 2 of those from what was Phones4U, and they cost nowt!, Mrs Francais uses hers all the time, I have the other as a spare, great little phone, and will hold a charge for around a fortnight.
Also the Aldi Rugged phone can go at least 3 weeks between charges.
Not bad for £30 and will take any providers sim, in fact it can handle 2 sim's at the same time!
Isn't it interesting that whenever someone posts about a smartphone, everybody comes on talk about the battery life of an older type of phone. Of course the battery doesn't last as long, it's doing much more!
If, for you, a phone is for phoning people and nothing else then there are plenty of those on the market and they're not very expensive. If, like me, your phone is very much more, it is not really much hassle to charge it every night.
3g is quite good ... better than 2g but not as good as 4g! What's not so good is the coverage problems that every network has in some areas. But at least they advertise their coverage black spots so that everyone can make a reasonably informed choice. Exeter is not very good on my network, but as my broadband supplier gives free access to wifi hotspots, and most shopping centres, shops, pubs, cafes, etc supply free wifi then I'm never more than a few metres from a connection if I want it.
My car is very much 'from another era', but I don't decry the 'gimmicks to make money' that most modern cars have. If, as I suspect, the OP has made the adjustment to power steering in the car, a phone touch screen is a similar leap!
I also had a new mobile (Android, whatever that is, lol a few weeks ago, but mainly for the camera. It has been hard to get my head around it,but sometimes carry my old one (Nokia), for emergencies which is so easy to use, but rubbish camera, well, it is an old model. I am very pleased with the camera on my new one, also videos, so result.
I visited my doctors surgery today to pick up a prescription for my wife (just in case anyone worried that I was ill). As I stood in the queue at the dispensary I sort of looked around and noticed that I was about the only one who wasn't standing or sitting with head bowed and thumbs going like jack-hammers on little tiny boxes. I felt distinctly out of place.
Just treat it as a tool in your life, if you have use for a modem smartphone then buy one and learn to use it to its full potential. If you don't have the use for one or make the choice that you would rather use something else for what a smartphone can do then buy a non smart phone. There are plenty of great deals to suit either..
I personally love my iPhone and I belive I use it to its potential most of the time. I do every now and then though need it just as a phone and need the longest battery life possible. In those cases I just turn off as much as I can and stay off any application I don't need, I can usually eak out about 3 days of battery then.
Quote: Originally posted by MrDasherD on 02/7/2015
Isn't it interesting that whenever someone posts about a smartphone, everybody comes on talk about the battery life of an older type of phone. Of course the battery doesn't last as long, it's doing much more!
If, for you, a phone is for phoning people and nothing else then there are plenty of those on the market and they're not very expensive. If, like me, your phone is very much more, it is not really much hassle to charge it every night.
3g is quite good ... better than 2g but not as good as 4g! What's not so good is the coverage problems that every network has in some areas. But at least they advertise their coverage black spots so that everyone can make a reasonably informed choice. Exeter is not very good on my network, but as my broadband supplier gives free access to wifi hotspots, and most shopping centres, shops, pubs, cafes, etc supply free wifi then I'm never more than a few metres from a connection if I want it.
My car is very much 'from another era', but I don't decry the 'gimmicks to make money' that most modern cars have. If, as I suspect, the OP has made the adjustment to power steering in the car, a phone touch screen is a similar leap!
Brilliantly put. If the need is for a simple phone to receive and make calls and txts and nothing else, there's no need for a computer in your pocket.
We're on fibre at home but our mobile 4G speed is faster than the average home connection. In addition to calls/SMS/MMS we use ours for pics/video, browse, email, stream, play music/films, social, alarms, store, back-up, calendar, Skype etc etc.
In the UK we have wi-fi in M&S, John Lewis, shopping centres etc etc and on our recent holiday in France we had mobile data switched off but with wi-fi in the accommodation, in Bordeaux, Fnac etc we were able to keep in touch without calls.
If we didn't find those features useful we wouldn't use those types of phones.
------------- Mike
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Precisely why I don't get all singing, all dancing phones, Mike, with the added issues that most of the time, only have 2G or less - why pay for something that ain't gonna work most places I am.
No objection to those who can make much more use of their phones and can get reception, mind!
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Well, mine's a 2 yr old sub 5" screen, fits in the pocket fine, and lets me browse and email on the go without having to lug one of the tablets round or the laptop. And I'm a 65 yr old who needs glasses even for the laptop.
I'm holding off a new phone till I see what Google brings out this year. I think they slipped up with last year's Nexus 6 which I'd agree is just a tad too big.
------------- Mike
My advice is worth no more than the price paid for it
Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 02/7/2015
I really don't get it with smart phones, the screen is so tiny, what is the point, the one's with larger screens are to big to fit in your pocket.
If I need computer type facilities, I simply use the iPad or Acer Tablet, that my firm nicely gave me.
Thankfully I have never had to buy a smartphone, Tablet or Laptop, as the firms I have worked for hand them out like confetti.
I bought my smartphone simply because it enabled me to read names, numbers and text messages. The size of the screens on other phones make it almost imposdible for me to read them without digging into my pocket for my glases. Anything else I get out of the phone is purely a side issue. My first smartphone was a Nokia 800 which stopped working 18 months after I bought it ( it was being sold off cheap when I bought it because it was obsolete and the end of the line ). It broke down 20 months later whilst still in warranty, and the delightful people at O2 could not repair it so sent me out the equivalent ( top of the range ) phone a Nokia lumia 930. So now I have am phone that is wonderfully flexible, and has an amazing camera. My other camera is a Canon 600d with a really good lens and what I cannot get iver is that in many circumstances my camera takes better pictures than the Canon.
------------- Bill
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