You don’t know what you don’t know !
And I and know very little about my mobile phone.
Today I joined 8 others from the village in a four week course of “ Getting the best out of your mobile phone”
The simple realisation of I know fuck all about my came as a little bit of a shock, but that little Samsung bundle of joy has been an anathema to me since the day I bought it .
And I’m not the only one.
The eight of us were all pretty clueless, eight including Pippa from the Rectory, Farmer Gwyn and Anne H. From the friendship group, dim wits all…..
“ I used to be able to work an intensive care ventilator but this phone has me beaten” I moaned during the introductions
And I meant it
You and me, both! I hate the bloody thing, but feel I have to at least try. Trouble is, with my eyesight, I can't read the screen, and with my hearing loss/hearing aids, if I want to listen to anything, I have to have it on speaker, so the world and his wife can hear everything. xx
ReplyDeleteYou can make the font bigger and dark mode is harder to read than regular White w black text lizzy d
DeleteOh, I've done all that, lizzy. I think the problem is - I hate technology! 🤣
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DeleteYou're not alone John, the majority of us barely scratch the surface of the capabilities of our phones.
ReplyDeleteDo scoot over as I'll have a seat on the bench with you, Pippa, Farmer Gwyn, Anne H. and the other 4! Please pass on what you learn as I use my phone to make calls, text, and check the weather. Is that pitiful or what? Suits me but know I'm missing a lot - and none of what I'm missing is social media!
ReplyDeleteHugs!
Dear heavens, my little Samsung will hopefully last for the rest of my life because quite honestly, nothing is worse than learning new technology. My phone probably does a great deal more than I know, but I have been ignorantly stumbling along just fine.
ReplyDeleteYou're not dimwits. "Smartphone" aren't user-friendly to start with. I far prefer the old landlines that you could just pick up to answer or to dial, without first having to unlock, then find and click on a phone app, then click on your contacts icon, then click on somone's number, then click on ... and on ... and on ... so sometimes these so-called improvements are more of a pain in the ass than very damn smart. -Kate
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DeleteI still miss phone books. Sigh!
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John, Welcome to my world. Until 2 years ago I couldn't even text/message. You have all my sympathies. Jan xx
ReplyDeleteOh gosh, I could have done with this course too! I only really started using my mobile regularly 3 years ago and still have panic moments with it OFTEN! It has so many gizmos I am totally ignorant of . . .
ReplyDeleteAdd me to that list!!!
ReplyDeleteI saw last night a device being advertised to "the young uns" that will take blurry pictures for you in such a manner that you can not be too focussed on it and interact in real life - it even offers useful apps but not "the distractions" so you can leave your phone at home. Modern technology, eh?!
ReplyDeleteOh Boy! Do I share your pain! I had a Nokia years ago that drove me to drink. I bumped into my son and his 16 year old friends in town, noticed one was on a phone identical to mine, asked him to show me how mine worked and he said “Oh these are crappy phones, they’re so bad” … so I went and bought myself an iPhone (at four times the price!) and solved the problem. Well, vastly improved it. Now, when I’ve a problem I ask the pre-teen grandchildren to sort me out and Whoosh, they’ve sorted it!
ReplyDeleteAnd I’m Virginia, not anonymous … but my iPad is being cantankerous … I need a class too!
I have a cell phone,
DeleteI book Ubers on it
Lee
I've always had iPhones (yes, I am privileged) and I believe that apple products are just inherently more user friendly than other brands. BUT, I have no doubt that my phone can do things that I cannot even imagine. Perhaps launch spaceships to the moon! Could there be an app for that?
ReplyDeleteI find that my grandchildren know a hell of a lot more than I do but I don't beat myself up about it. My generation has come an incredible distance from the "technology" available to us as children to now.
I started with a flip phone and was fine with that. But the 5g push sent me to an Android which was free. And that's about what its worth. It takes terrible pictures but I do text. I'm a one trick pony.
ReplyDeleteI have an older model iPhone that inherited from my husband...I have no internet/wifi connection to it, by choice. I can only phone and text..but that is enough..and I get it's basic functions but beyond that....even my iMac Computer here is beyond me. We used to have a librarian locally who taught *tech* classes in uses of both phones and computers and her classes were always very well attended and almost always full! I know why..Its hard (for me) to learn new tricks as an old dog (which I am)
ReplyDeleteSusan M/ Calif.
What kills me is my latest one didn't even come with a little booklet explaining what all the onscreen symbols mean! Please, God, don't let that happen to my car's owner's manual when it comes to my dashboard!
ReplyDeleteI only use the Camera, WhatsApp, the Torch, and our security system in France.
ReplyDeleteTell us what you learnt so i can decide if I know enough?
ReplyDeleteI’d love to send SG to that class... although a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. After having his iPhone for a year, he exclaimed: My phone has a camera. (Note: On Day One, I took a picture of him with his phone camera.)
ReplyDeleteI use husband's old mobile for one thing only - receiving authorisation codes when I want to buy something online from a seller I've not used before. In order to keep this phone going I have to actually make a very short call every few months otherwise it becomes 'dead' and I lose the PAYG balance. I have no idea what else the phone can do.
ReplyDeleteOne of the best images I created last year, was taken on my phone, and edited from a photo to a line drawing on my phone, then I used the eraser function on my phone to remove a distraction. They are really amazing little computers, camera, text devices, but not really good phones.
ReplyDeleteI don't know much about my phone John.. i call, text, scroll Facebook, check the weather.... a little news...and i have a coloring program for when i'm bored or waiting in line... For some reason.... the game you used to play shopping in the store just popped in my mind... where you put items in peoples carts to see if they notice...lol Do you still do that? Hugs! deb
ReplyDeleteOh, I hear ya, John! I only know "the basics" on my own smart phone. It's like having a powerful race car and just using it to tootle down to the grocery store a block away. And yes, I'm home again and back to daily blogging now.
ReplyDeleteI wish for a phone that just does calls and texts. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteWhat an excellent idea for a class. God knows I need it.
ReplyDeleteI just use what I need to use and don't worry about the extra "features" that I don't need to use.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I have no idea about all the things my phone can do. I figure if I haven't learned it I don't need it, but that's probably not the most responsible way to look at the situation.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter showed me how to use the "reverse look-up" feature on Google. You can take a photo of something and it will show you other similar things. Great for finding who was the artist of a certain painting, for example.
ReplyDeleteI use my iPhone for texting my girls, for making a shopping list, for ordering from Amazon occasionally and the best thing is I use the magnifier for reading labels at the supermarket. I never make phone calls from it but one daughter calls me on it. I have a landline and I am mostly at home so that is what I use most. I do look up the weather but the two spots usually differ. I take a lot of photos of my dog and I do screenshots of family genealogy that I come across. I look up stuff to learn how to use it. They can do more but it does what I want it to do. I love my iPad too. Good luck with the class John, Gigi
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