Can you work all the functions in your cellphones?

fuzzybuddy

fuzzybuddy

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I still don't know how to text. Why should I spend time trying to type words on a tiny keypad with big fat fingers, when I can just call you? I just found out my phone counts the number of steps I take each day. Also, I noticed that people, who were brought up with a cellphone, hold it differently than I do. Plus they know all about them. Are you a cellphone aficionado? Or, are you like me, just able o use them?
 

No, I am a failure at smart phones. I can make and receive phone calls and texts but I don't use it for anything else. I don't know why even have it!

Texting seems so backward to me. Long ago, people wrote letters or sent telegrams. Then Joy to the world, they invented the telephone, a truly amazing and useful invention.

But now? People have reverted to typing "letters" they call texts. Which to me, is a PITA!
 
The thing about texting now..is that it's deemed by the younger folk... and I mean people even as old as my daughter in her 40's... as polite to do rather than call.

They prefer you to text rather than interrupt them doing something.. and they can answer at their leisure...

..or as I do.. If I need to speak to someone.. I text first and ask if they'll be available...


As for my phone..I have an iphone.. I don't know how to use half of it.. I know how to text.. take photos.. use the Sat Nav ... make calls... and read the news etc.. but anything more complicated I don't know. My soon2bx and my daughter both have iphones as well.. and do wizardy on them...
 
I don't even know what functions my phone has. It's a cheap Samsung with a $100/yr Tracfone "contract." That's all it costs me... a hundred a year. I don't use it... it's in my purse for emergency use only. I've texted about half a dozen times in the past year and those actually *were* emergencies. I've used the phone part one time... again an emergency. I know it has Internet but I haven't touched it. I have a laptop and tablet for that. :giggle:
 
I think most modern phones have features most of us never use. Sometimes I'll accidently pull up a menu bar from the side of my screen, looks to be a shortcut menu, and I can simply swipe it back off the screen. Yet I've never figured out how to pull it over when I try, it always pops up accidently.

One of the features I use all the time is screen shots, yet for the first 15 years of cell phone use I never used it simply because I wasn't sure how.

I'd rate my cell phone ability as adequate but not knowledgeable.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I still don't know how to text. Why should I spend time trying to type words on a tiny keypad with big fat fingers, when I can just call you? I just found out my phone counts the number of steps I take each day. Also, I noticed that people, who were brought up with a cellphone, hold it differently than I do. Plus they know all about them. Are you a cellphone aficionado? Or, are you like me, just able o use them?
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Fuzz, when you initiate a text to someone, above the keypad there's a bar of icons. If one of those icons is a microphone, that means you can just talk and the phone will type what you say...so you don't have to use the frustratingly tiny keyboard.

I always use the dictator....um, the voice to text feature. I always proofread what it writes, because it doesn't always get all the words right, and I have to correct a few things before I *send*, but it's still way better than typing out everything.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I still don't know how to text. Why should I spend time trying to type words on a tiny keypad with big fat fingers, when I can just call you?
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You know that acronym, the one that replaces the "F" profanity, FFS? Well since texting has become more friendly since text abbreviations have been made redundant thanks to predictive texting, FFS has a new meaning and it's all down to misspelling due to those big fat fingers that you mention. FFS is no longer: For F***'s Sake, it's now: Fat Finger Syndrome.

As for what my cell phone can do, it's twenty years old and it's nothing more than a landline in my pocket. A landline without cables and that's it!
 
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i couldn't live without my cell phone. and i have an apple watch which is a mirror of my iphone. it does everything the iphone does. i look like agent 99 when i talk to my wrist. I would rather text people than talk to them on the phone. my phone is very useful as a GPS.
 
My family stays in touch daily via texting, and to a smaller extent, old-fashioned email. We usually only make phone calls for birthday greetings, or if something is really urgent. I like texting a lot better. It's much less intrusive and doesn't interrupt anyone's life. They read the message at their own convenience, and answer it when they can.

We also use them for directions, addresses, hours of business operation, information of all kinds, translations of foreign words, and so on. There is no limit to what you can use them for.

But ALL the functions? You gotta be kidding. I don't even understand what half of them mean! And I think if anyone tried using all the functions, they would have literally no life outside of the phone. Which pretty much describes the average teenager, come to think of it.
 
Before I retired, someone at work had to teach me how to text as it was necessary in my position. But I have not texted on my own android phone as I only email people I know and phone if necessary. I can use the camera function (no fancy stuff though) and if I'm out somewhere at Starbucks, let's say where they have internet usage, I'll browse the internet on my phone. However, my younger brother has used his phone (whatever kind he has) to present at medical conferences all his notes, diagrams, etc.
 

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