What's the most important thing you'd miss if you lost your phone?

Making long distance calls without having to type in all the numbers from a calling card. Yep it's old school around here.
 

I wouldn't miss a thing. My iPhone is usually in the bottom of my purse, covered in lint with a dead battery. If I want to call someone I prefer the regular land line phone.
 
My phone's information is automatically synched to the Cloud, and also to my laptop and iPad, so I wouldn't really lose any data, it'd just be a drag and an expense to have to get a new phone and restore all the info to it.

Also, can Laurie, or anyone, tell me what this is?

I wondered too. Laurie, what's a PIM??
 

I think PIM (personal information manager) is eurospeak for what we called a PDA - personal digital assistant. Before smart phones PDAs had calendars, contact info, etc stored in a separate device. My late wife had one in the early 90s

Smart phones have integrated all that functionality and many others into 1 device
 
I don't have an iphone nor a smartphone. I only have a simple phone that we carry around for an emergency. Pay only $10/month for a pay as you need plan. Don't need to show I have a life carrying an smartphone in front of me all day. I have a life. Enjoy my guitar, reading, traveling, downloading good shows & talking to people face to face. Oh yes, daily walks & time at our gym downstairs is great.
 
I have a Nokia 3210. It's now 22 years old,has no camera,no SD card,isn't connected to any 'clouds' and has minimalist storage.
BUT...over the years I've had it,it's been drowned twice,been whacked accidentally many times,dropped onto the floor of my truck from the dashboard-and just keeps going.
It still has it's original battery,which still holds charge for 2/3 days depending on use-and best of all,in 'quiet' moments,I can play 'Snake on it'.
EVERYONE laughs at it,calls me a skinflint,tells me how 3G connection is ''so yesterday''-but it keeps going. I have a little 22mp camera for pics-so I'm content.
 
I don't have an iphone nor a smartphone. I only have a simple phone that we carry around for an emergency. Pay only $10/month for a pay as you need plan. Don't need to show I have a life carrying an smartphone in front of me all day. I have a life. Enjoy my guitar, reading, traveling, downloading good shows & talking to people face to face. Oh yes, daily walks & time at our gym downstairs is great.

Y'know, there are plenty of us who use our smartphones constantly all day BECAUSE we have a life.....a busy, productive and sometimes hectic life, and a smartphone facilitates that and enables us to keep up with everything, and makes us more efficient.
 
i am like aunt bea---everything is written down on an index card in my purse---meds -phone numbers--surgeries i have had--now if they took the whole purse that would be another problem---but i keep copies at home also
 
I have a Nokia 3210. It's now 22 years old,has no camera,no SD card,isn't connected to any 'clouds' and has minimalist storage.
BUT...over the years I've had it,it's been drowned twice,been whacked accidentally many times,dropped onto the floor of my truck from the dashboard-and just keeps going.
It still has it's original battery,which still holds charge for 2/3 days depending on use-and best of all,in 'quiet' moments,I can play 'Snake on it'.
EVERYONE laughs at it,calls me a skinflint,tells me how 3G connection is ''so yesterday''-but it keeps going. I have a little 22mp camera for pics-so I'm content.


Ditto! I LOVE my little Nokia. The young guys at the Nokia kiosk were reveling over how
compact and well made it is. I'm not giving it up until it dies. Best battery, that's for sure.
 
Ditto! I LOVE my little Nokia. The young guys at the Nokia kiosk were reveling over how
compact and well made it is. I'm not giving it up until it dies. Best battery, that's for sure.


Got one myself, can't see the need to buy one of the new fangled ones when this one works as good as the day 'Moses' gave it to me...:D
 
I use my smart phone a lot more since I got rid of my land line, which I don't miss at all. My photos are synced to icloud, so I presume they are safe there, although how to retrieve them if necessary would be
a puzzlement.

Mostly I use the phone to stay in touch with my children and grandchildren. Hardly ever via phone calls, mostly through texting. And my daughter and I are having a lot of fun with Words With Friends.
 
I don't use my phone for shopping, banking, Senior Forum, most emailing, and some other activities I prefer to do on my desktop, but I do use it to authenticate my log-ins to those accounts. My phone keeps me in email, voice and text communication with friends and family. When away from home it alerts me if my cameras pick up any noise or motion. I type my grocery list on my computer and it immediately syncs to my phone.

My life can get very busy - it's much easier to keep track of everything with my smart phone. Going without it would be a drag. I don't know people's phone numbers anymore - my phone tracks that for me and the information is automatically backed up somewhere.
 
I use my smart phone a lot more since I got rid of my land line, which I don't miss at all. My photos are synced to icloud, so I presume they are safe there, although how to retrieve them if necessary would be
a puzzlement.

Hey Sunny, if you're synched to the cloud, then you must have an Apple ID. Using that, and your password for it, will connect you to iCloud, and from there you'll be able to view everything that's stored on the Cloud...not just your photos. It also saves your contacts, calendar, notes, reminders...more. There's also a feature that will allow you to find your phone if you leave it someplace, lock it till you get to it, and if it's permanently lost you can wipe all the data on it remotely. An added "find iPhone" iCloud feature is that if it's synched to any other device you own, you can use that device to cause your iPhone to ping or chime so you can locate it via sound if you've "lost" it somewhere in the house.

Just go to icloud.com and from there you'll be prompted as to how to set it up for yourself. If you have any setup issues I'm happy to walk you through it.
 
Probably what I'd miss the most is the respect of my son-in-law as he bought me the phone and pays the bill.

Same here ... my daughter gave me my phone and pays the bill, so I would be in trouble. :nightmare: .. Her kids do enough things with their phones on their family plan w/o me being a headache and losing mine.
 


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