Mobile phones

[Jules]

What did some folks do before all the apps to tell them what to do?

The apps don’t tell me what to do. They give me information that I can use when I’m doing something. I have the option to use it or not.

 

[Michael Z]

Been without a cell phone for a few months now. I did borrow my wife’s phone a few times. Will get a replacement flip phone before next winter I suppose.

But I do have my iPad.

 

[Remy]

I'm rocking the Consumer Cellular flip phone.

I have my laptop at home. I don't need to have that thing on all the time. It's for emergencies only really. And an occasional phone call.

 

[Been There]

I was one of those who said we didn't have IPhones in the '60s, and we got along fine without them. TILL I got one. Okay name Tsar Nicholas II's kids-Anastasia, Tatiana, Maria, Olga. You have almost all the information in the world a couple of clicks away. GPS, videos, calendars, the list of useful assets goes on. The more you use it the more it becomes part of your life. I don't view it some evil device intent on enslaving me.

I’m going to take a wild guess here and say that you taught World History or some subject related to it in high school. Right or wrong?

 

[Alligatorob]

do you take your phone everywhere with you ?

Only recently, I'm a bit slow on the smart phone curve, a phone smarter than me seems a worry.

would you be lost without it ?

No, but I can see that day is coming. Maybe here and I don't know it.

Just took my first trip without a computer in years. Trying to keep up just on the phone, including here was a challenge. I can't see the screen without working at it, and I can't type on a phone much at all. Probably born too soon to master those skills, LOL.

What would we do without them ?

Just go on living...

 

[Happyflowerlady]

I love my iPhone, but I very seldom use it since I don’t make many calls. It connects with my Apple Watch, and what i like best is that it has ALL of my health information right there on the phone. If my doctor wants to know what my blood pressure has been like, I just open up the phone app and show him.
I can check my heart rate, blood oxygen, and just about everything else that is important to me, between the phone and the watch. When I go somewhere, the phone can stay in my purse, because I can answer a call from the Apple Watch, although, I usually like to take the phone out when i do have a phone call.

I like that I always have my camera along with me, which I never did before i started carrying my phone along. I also like the location sharing, so my family always knows where I am at in case there is a problem and they need to reach me.

I mostly do any texting from the iPad , since I have an external keyboard for that, which makes it much easier than typing from the phone keyboard.

 

[katlupe]

I do not use it for anything but talking. Sometimes I get texts from my bf or doctor offices. I am not lost without it since I hate talking on a phone anyway. But it is cheaper than the landline so I have it since my bf is addicted to his and calls me all the time. I do keep it with me in case of falling or an emergency (like getting stuck in the elevator). I use my laptop for everything else and that is what I am addicted to. My life is difficult when that breaks down!

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I’m going to take a wild guess here and say that you taught World History or some subject related to it in high school. Right or wrong?

Nope, I do crossword puzzles.

 

[Blessed]

I have one that was used when my son was in junior high school forward. This was only so I could keep up with him and pick him up from school functions. He was in marching band, track and field. Once he could drive, it was for emergencies. I used it for many years to call family when my husband was going through cancer clinical trials in Arizona.

I don't have a cell phone now, husband has passed, son is through school, married, a home and family of his own. I have lived a good portion of my life without a cell phone so I don't see it as a need. It would be more of a want. I have things I would want but I am not spending the money because I do not need them.

I do have this funny old thing called a land line. It works great. Times when my husband was sick, then later when my mother lived with me it was a comfort to know I could grab the house phone and call 911. If I only had a cell I might not know where it was, was it charged. The land line works better for me as I am only out to places within a 1/2 to 1 mile radius from my home.

 

[IKE]

I let mama sweet talk me into getting cell / flip phones about ten years ago she turns hers on and carries it whenever she leaves home and then turns it back off when she gets home......mine might get carried a couple of times a year if that and is pretty much just a dust collector sitting on the dinning room table.

Our main phone is still our landline and we don't have a answering machine but we do remember (most of the time) to check missed calls after returning home if we're out together.

Wanna talk to us ?......call back when we're home and we may or may not pick up depending on if we recognize your number or not.

 

[perplexed]

Same here. We have a Tracfone, and it sits on the desk, turned off, 99% of the time. We take it with us when we leave the house, in case we have car trouble, or one of the kids needs to contact us. We probably have enough minutes built up to talk for days.

Same here but no kids!