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Post by Jonjel on Feb 23, 2011 15:18:29 GMT
A couple of hours ago I had a new mobile delivered.
Mindblowing!
I now need one of two things:
A 14 year old with some patience - impossible
A Phd in mobile phone technology - too old to apply
Given the time I might soon be able to make a telephone call to the right person!
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Post by Joe K on Feb 23, 2011 18:33:09 GMT
Or just cough up the make of phone, and see if someone here can help you out. Someone might even register just to dazzle you with their skillz  |
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Post by Jonjel on Feb 25, 2011 9:44:46 GMT
Joe.
I had an old and beaten up Nokia. It worked, received and made calls and texts and a few other things.
A few days ago one of my staff grumbled that my phone looked crap when we went to a meeting or whatever (they said the same about my lovely old Land Rover Discovery a few years ago but that is another story).
So someone investigated the contract and plonked on my desk a short while later was this thing called an HTC telephone. It does everything. Indeed it calls people from my pocket without any intervention from me, it seems to be impossible to add someone as a contact unless I enter the colour of their grandmothers eyes. It tells me the weather in Barcelona or Tokyo, and the most annoying thing is, it will call people almost as soon as I touch the bloody thing. With a magnifying glass I can read the news, the stock market or even watch a bit of TV.
Maybe I will get used to it, but not until I have been on a 10 week course at night school.
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Post by helen on Feb 25, 2011 12:17:56 GMT
Three weeks ago I received a Blackberry from Virgin, it came with CD explaining all it's functions but it didn't tell me how to turn it on! I didn't want to ask the kids at school but yesterday my car gave up the ghost and I had to take a bus, loads of girls with Blackberrys on there listening to music and texting. I had to ask one how to turn it on. Now I can send e mails and what not but I still haven't managed text messaging. Think I'm going senile!
Douglas Adams noted many years ago that technology devised before you were born comes naturally to you - radio and tv; if it was invented before you were thirty you can soon learn to use it - VCRs and Walkmans; invented after you are thirty- Blackberry phones - give up!
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Post by Jonjel on Feb 25, 2011 12:29:57 GMT
This one is like a blackberry Helen. Well I think it is.....
And you have confirmed I need a 14 year old to teach me to drive it! (although a girl would do it had better be a boy as otherwise people will start to talk!)
My first mobile was a Motorola. It had a proper telephone handset and I made a bracket for it to sit on the dashboard. It worked very well and weighed about a Kg. The battery had a life of just a few hours.
The difference between now and then is, that phone cost me £750, (I kid you not) and calls cost 25p a minute and 35p a minute if you were inside the M25. Coverage was patchy as well with vast areas having no coverage.
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Post by Joe K on Feb 25, 2011 13:41:45 GMT
Joe. I had an old and beaten up Nokia. It worked, received and made calls and texts and a few other things. A few days ago one of my staff grumbled that my phone looked crap when we went to a meeting or whatever (they said the same about my lovely old Land Rover Discovery a few years ago but that is another story). So someone investigated the contract and plonked on my desk a short while later was this thing called an HTC telephone. It does everything. Indeed it calls people from my pocket without any intervention from me... That's where you went wrong, I guess. You should have either selected your own phone, or stressed that you wanted something simple. My wife bought me an Ericsson 'Quantum Of Solace'-style phone, and it's midways complicated. I probably use it more for taking pictures than phoning anyone (it's 'PAYE'), and if the camera settings need changing, and they seem particularly vulnerable to changing accidentally, she does it (she has an Ericsson too, a pink slidey one). The 'calling from your pocket' thing is usually dealt with by locking the keyboard. Holding down '#' or '*', and then confirming 'Lock' usually does it. Or a 'clam' phone protects the keyboard, so the buttons don't get pressed. Short of changing the phone, maybe the best thing is to say to your staff, 'You picked it, you programme it...' |
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Post by Jonjel on Feb 25, 2011 14:07:30 GMT
WHAT! Where do I find the ~ and * keys! I had to think about what you meant by clam phone - I think you mean i my language one with a hinge.
I spent a happy hour last night (it seemed longer) going into settings. I now have a bell I can hear, and by drawing a pretty pattern on the front can unlock the phone. I have set it to lock instantly I stop using it.
I will master the art of texting soon. About another week......
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Post by Jonjel on Mar 2, 2011 14:24:25 GMT
I have discovered I can talk to it and it types (more or less) what I say as a text. It does not seem to recognise the word 'bugger' though.
I guess if I had an American as opposed to West Country accent it would be more accurate.
If I tell it to 'navigate to****' it takes me n entirely the wrong direction becasue it mistakes London for Lisbon, and Worcester for Towcester, and Plymouth for Monmouth.
I will persevere....
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