What Phone, What’s an Oldie to Do?

N.B. Something that might not be mentioned above is that they require much more frequent charging

Never read phone instructions, I just use Google to get loads of info in seconds.

There's probably also youtube tutorials

I had a tablet before a smartphone and found it a useful introduction. But I just cannot get on with iPads and find Android so much easier to use.

The only difference between a tablet and a smartphone is the latter makes phone calls (if you use hotspots or a mifi, etc. for your tablet) and some tablets can even make phone calls.

 

As they say "each to their own."

I've a basic pay as you go phone. I keep it in the front ashtray of my car. It's for emergencies and for phoning home before I leave my golf club car park on three days a week, in case my wife needs any "justgetmes."

I haven't the time for a smart phone. When I see how these phones dominate people's lives I'm truly amazed. There's nothng in my life so importatant that it can't wait until I can get to the landline or send an e-mail when I get home.

 

I've also got one of those in the car's glove compartment as a backup

It's a basic non-smartphone triple sim phone for emergencies only and the small remaining PAYG credits for each network's sims will last a decade or more if I keep just making the occasional brief call to keep the accounts live, that only costs about 15p p.a. for all 3 sims, so about £1.50 for the next 10 years at current prices.

P.S. This is our landline phone

 

I've recently got a new phone Sony xz2 compact on contract its £30 ( £26.50 with cashback over the contract ) with 8GB of data unlimted text / mins and free BT sport with some other bits, its is expensive and probably more than what you are looking for, they is compare website for moblie phone deals on carephone warehouse / moneysupermarket and others.

You can buy a phone right out and get a Sim only deals which can range between £8-12+ per month for a good deal but its unlikely to have high data, data is where the money is now in mobiles. Contract phone get both phone and sim. I am not sure how long say £10 would last on a pay as you go phone but I can't see it lasting long, it would be cheaper on a rolling sim contract or sim contract than pay as go if you use the phone often or access the internet often that if you already have the phone. My phone turned out cheaper on a contract the phone cost £530 new originally then adding at least £10 per month for a sim only deal over 2 years takes me over what I pay for getting them both on contract.

Like it has already been said Data is for assessing the internet nearly anywhere, you will not use Data when your phone connected to your home internet hub ( wifi ) .

It hard to recommended a phone need a price range ??? Can't remember who said it but moto G6 are well recommended. I personally don't like iphones apple are a bunch of greedy sods , android phones in my opinion are easier to use as well.

Mobile phones of today are much more than a phone , it like caring around a PC - Good camera - MP3 - TV a bit and many other bits like calculators etc in a tiny little device. I bought a little camera not a expensive one about £160 new and its practically made it redundant annoyingly, I'll still use it if I am taking lots of pictures battery's don't last long taking many photo's.

 

just put in 11 zero's

 

I have a similar problem doing stuff on line when a company's application form requires details of my street name, we don't have 1! I think (accent on the think) it's the Q79. I have attempted to put this down and "the computer says no" so I too have to fill in the line with zeros. If this doesn't work I then look for an alternative company to deal with or use that old fashioned way of picking up the landline phone (gosh shock horror, hardly anybody seems to use 1 of these antiquated contraptions these days) and attempt to speak to a human being. If the music being played down the phone to me for what always seems an eternity is not to my liking then it is definitely time for me to try an alternative company if possible.
Just read your post @shiney re putting down the company you are dealing withs phone number as you don't have a mobile number to give them. Fantastic idea . I will use their street address in future.

 

It's O.K., I've got all the numbers in my mobile's contacts app.

That image is of group of high school students in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam using their phones to research an assignment on the painting. DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: The Imaginary Museum: Teaching Art History with Mobile Digital Technology

"It is generally assumed that the act of looking down at a phone instead of one’s surroundings shows inattention, a surrender to distraction, a hopeless nullification of social and intellectual engagement. But in fact, using a smartphone tablet, or laptop can be a way of connecting privately, but actively, with the larger world of ideas and images. "

Some National Trust properties now have QR codes to scan and get additional information, audio guides, etc., so if you see people at one gazing at their phone screens or wearing headphones, they're not on facebook, instagram, listening to music, etc., they're learning more about the property than those without a smartphone.

 

I once wnted to book a service with the main agents for my Honda, on-line. I couldn't complete the booking as it asked for a mobile number as well as the landline one, but I don't know the number. It's on a card in my wallet and I wasn't prepared to go downstairs to find it. I therefore was unable to complete the booking as the site insisted on the mobile number. So I didn't bother. it was the "deal breaker" which made me go elsewhere for my car servicing.

Many years ago I bought my wife a basic mobile phone for emergencies.

The salesman went through all the features

Then said to her;

"Any questions?"

"Yes, how do you turn it off?"

"Off?"

Yeah! but they're usually just texting.

"Where are you now?
Are you going clubbing on Saturday?
What are you wearing?"

A rather poor way to try to explain away the obssession with mobile phones.

The problem is that many people aren't aware that they are.

 

That wont get you free parking in their pay & display car parks as you need to scan the QR code on the plastic cards at the ticket machine to get a free one to display in your car.

I keep meaning to check whether an image on my mobile would work as well as a card, as it is a PITA finding it amongst all the Wyevale and Blue Diamond cards in my wallet.