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Post by Phar Lap on Apr 14, 2024 5:54:17 GMT -5
I feel like I have lost a family member! My mobile phone died yesterday, I rang Junior and asked could he go with me tomorrow that is today and help me buy a new phone? He tells me he will come over. Today he comes with his old phone. Junior and London Lad bought me a phone for Christmas 2013 which is the one that limped towards its death yesterday! The phone Junior brought over is a Samsung. The original one I had was an HTC.
It is not easy this new phone of mine. I remember it took me ages to “learn” how to use the old one! But, there is one thing I can truly say - the camera on the Samsung is far superior to the camera on the old phone!
For those of you who have had to replace your phone(s), how easy or difficult did you find it getting used to another different one altogether?
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Post by sophie on Apr 14, 2024 8:54:54 GMT -5
I’ve only ever had iPhones so there were no issues.. just a small learning curve to do with the new features.
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Post by kneazle on Apr 14, 2024 15:51:32 GMT -5
My parents got Samsungs because I had one so I could tell them how to work it.
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Post by Liiisa on Apr 14, 2024 18:01:38 GMT -5
Me too with the iPhones - always very easy to adapt to a new one, and since I have had Apple computers since the 80s it was pretty intuitive to figure out the various controls.
Congrats on the new phone, and on keeping the old one going for 11 years!
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Post by jimm on Apr 15, 2024 3:07:41 GMT -5
I've swapped between phones a bit - 2 or 3 Nokias, a couple of Samsungs and now an iPhone. The smart phones are much the same - well, same same but different - the apps work the same but closing them is different, the app stores are similar etc. Transferring history such as chats and WhatsApp chats is non-trivial though. I think the HTC was Android (like the Samsung) so the changes should not be too much of a challenge.
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Post by romily on Apr 16, 2024 7:30:22 GMT -5
All my smart phones were motorola, so change was pretty easy. But change from non smart to smart phone was a learning curve, and a revelation at the same time, all the things I missed out on, and all the time I am now wasting on the phone!
But good on you for keeping your phone going for 11 years. Mine is 4 years old now and most people can't believe I didn't switch to the newer model yet (I don't have a contract so pay cash for the handset - IMO motorola is really good value for money). Work phone is an iphone, which costs 10 times what my motorola costs, and I still have to see the difference in functionality.
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Post by Phar Lap on Apr 16, 2024 8:31:23 GMT -5
At the risk of sounding “un-smart”, what actually is a smart phone and why is it called a smart phone?
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Post by sprite on Apr 16, 2024 10:58:19 GMT -5
A 'smart' phone is the one that is a mini computer, unlike the original phones that could basically do phone calls, text msgs, and very bad photos. I'm on my second smart phone, both Sony Xperia. I've bought both secondhand, and only upgraded because a couple of apps I really needed could not run on the phone anymore. I still use the old one for nighttime Sudoku and basic internet searches. I will probably get another phone, either secondhand or refurbished, this year. I don't see the point of a new phone--very expensive, very little added benefit. My parents got me one of these crossbody phone holders, and I'm looking forward to using it with the new phone. no more needing pockets or a bag! Save the Girls I'm also going to get a screen protector, because I cracked mine just a few weeks after buying it, so I won't be able to sell it on.
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Post by Liiisa on Apr 16, 2024 16:46:46 GMT -5
Isn't a smart phone what you have? Like a tiny thing that looks like an ipad, which you can search the internet and has a bunch of apps and such?
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Post by fishface on Apr 16, 2024 18:59:02 GMT -5
You have a smart phone already phar, just an older more basic smart phone.
Your phone has been on the blink for a while right? I think I recall that about your phone.
It's more complicated but think of it as a smart phone has Internet and browsing capabilities and a dumb phone is for phone calls and texting only. I think even basic dumb phones with numbers/buttons are actually Internet lite now anyway but there are some basic phones available.
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Post by fishface on Apr 16, 2024 19:00:29 GMT -5
I have a long lanyard for my phone. It is much easier finding the lanyard in my bag than a phone!
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Post by jimm on Apr 17, 2024 1:32:26 GMT -5
I have pockets - easy to store and find my phone, even when I'm sitting around at home. Mostly mine lives in a shirt pocket, but I realize that that's no practical for at least half of the population.
If a phone has to be kept in a handbag, a bright protective covert would be good to a) be able to see it easily, and b) protect it from all the other stuff that lives in handbags.
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Post by fishface on Apr 17, 2024 2:10:35 GMT -5
Lanyards people. Lanyards. Easy to find in a bag and you can hang them around your neck.
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Post by jimm on Apr 17, 2024 5:03:24 GMT -5
That's a good idea too.
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Post by Liiisa on Apr 17, 2024 5:27:19 GMT -5
I'd use a lanyard if my bags were large voids where the phone is just in there among a bunch of other stuff, but my bags generally have lots of different subdivisions so I always know where the phone is in there. And I keep my phone in my pocket if I'm wearing something with useful pockets, which is most of the time.
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Post by romily on Apr 17, 2024 5:55:44 GMT -5
Considering most of the time I forget my phone at home...and when I'm at work it stays at my desk and I don't carry it around, so this has never been an issue. And when traveling my bag has lots of separate pockets.
Funnily enough I even refuse to wear a lanyard for the work batch (which I am supposed to do) because somehow I find it really annoying to have something hanging around my neck.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Apr 17, 2024 7:58:18 GMT -5
My iPhone doesn’t have anywhere to connect a lanyard.
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Post by fishface on Apr 17, 2024 9:24:45 GMT -5
My iPhone doesn’t have anywhere to connect a lanyard. I attach the lanyard to my phone case (it's a wallet type that can hold my cards too).
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Post by Liiisa on Apr 17, 2024 11:52:01 GMT -5
Romily I also refuse to wear my work lanyard, like “I’ve been working here for 40 years, so if you don’t recognize me that’s your problem,” which is terribly antisocial, but I hate wearing the thing.
I can’t attach a lanyard to my iPhone case because I don’t have an. iPhone case! Living dangerously, but I want it to be slim enough to go into a pocket. Plus I think here I’m spending all this money to have this fancy glass phone, so I want to SEE it
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Post by sprite on Apr 17, 2024 14:18:11 GMT -5
The link in my post is for a doo-dad that I think is pretty handy for phone carrying, especially when hiking, but it involves a super sticky patch, so I don't want to put it on my phone and then 2 months later have to replace it somehow when I change phones. I should research that.
lanyards are of the devil. invented by people who wear shirts with collars all the time--you know who I mean! I have a little clip that goes on my waist band, with a retractable lead that clips to the lanyard--so it's on display, but not rubbing my neck or flapping around my chest or smacking my students in the face. thankfully i only need it for 11 weeks.
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Post by sophie on Apr 17, 2024 14:35:01 GMT -5
When I’m out of the house, the phone is on its charge pad in the car (seeing the phone and the car talk to each other each other!) or in my bag. I also have a small passport sized bag which can go around a shoulder and neck if I’m out hiking.
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Post by sprite on Apr 17, 2024 14:59:32 GMT -5
back to the original question, I've had two Sony Xperia's in a row, and I'm not sure I'll be able to get a third. Which is a shame, because they're compact. I really do not want to have to adapt to both new functions AND new organisation.
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Post by groo on Apr 17, 2024 20:56:36 GMT -5
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Post by Phar Lap on Apr 17, 2024 21:19:10 GMT -5
The link in my post is for a doo-dad that I think is pretty handy for phone carrying, especially when hiking, but it involves a super sticky patch, so I don't want to put it on my phone and then 2 months later have to replace it somehow when I change phones. I should research that. The link in your post which reads “Save the girls” links to my OP.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Apr 17, 2024 22:23:45 GMT -5
The link in my post is for a doo-dad that I think is pretty handy for phone carrying, especially when hiking, but it involves a super sticky patch, so I don't want to put it on my phone and then 2 months later have to replace it somehow when I change phones. I should research that. The link in your post which reads “Save the girls” links to my OP. Yes, it did that to me too.
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Post by sprite on Apr 18, 2024 12:31:56 GMT -5
Thanks Phar! I left a space in there, so proboards re-wrote it for me. pfft. fixed now.
I just found out my phone is 8 yrs old, so not feeling so bad about it not working as well as I'd like.
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Post by romily on Apr 19, 2024 1:36:57 GMT -5
Glad I'm not the only one with an older phone - I think mine is 5 years old now - as it feels the whole world is chasing after the newest model every two years at least!
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Post by Liiisa on Apr 19, 2024 5:32:39 GMT -5
Mine is from 2021, so I am keeping it until at least 2026. I read somewhere (probably the New York Times) that 5 years is a reasonable interval for replacing a smartphone, since less than that just doesn't make that much of a difference.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Apr 19, 2024 6:30:42 GMT -5
Mine is an iPhone 8 Plus, at least a 3 or 4 years pre-Covid. The home button has stopped working, so it will be replaced as soon as the house sale goes through.
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Post by sprite on Apr 19, 2024 7:09:03 GMT -5
Yup, I'm meeting a friend on Sunday for a hike, so my plan is to go to hers via the two places that sell used phones because I trust them more than FB marketplace.
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