I kid my spouse that her smart phone is like a diode (engineering term, only passes current in one direction.) because she only uses it to call out. Has improved over time, she now checks the weather forecast. She does love her iPad.
My techie just laughs about my phone. I can call out. We had to buy me a real camera because I kept accidentally taking selfies. I did finally this week memorize my cell phone number after not knowing it for years. I forget to keep the thing charged. Not a techie and basically like on and off.
Finally - someone after my own heart! My son insists I have a cell phone so I put it in the car when I go somewhere - then put it back on the charger when I get home. I still have a landline (included in my cable) and IF I want to talk to someone - I do it at home in comfort - NOT in the middle of the grocery store etc! I guess that makes me an old fossil! Oh well....
I just celebrated my 80th, so I am definitely an old fossil. I like to have the phone when I am driving the car and by myself. Otherwise, it resides in the charger. We do not have a land line, but several phones that are all over the house for our home phone. Techie does not want to change because it would be a very large pain. I don't pretend to understand how all this stuff works. I don't like to talk on the phone anyway, so am happy to be unavailable most of the time.
“It genuinely seems like gifting someone a smart phone and having them call the operator on it.” What?? You can’t? 😃
I kid my spouse that her smart phone is like a diode (engineering term, only passes current in one direction.) because she only uses it to call out. Has improved over time, she now checks the weather forecast. She does love her iPad.
My techie just laughs about my phone. I can call out. We had to buy me a real camera because I kept accidentally taking selfies. I did finally this week memorize my cell phone number after not knowing it for years. I forget to keep the thing charged. Not a techie and basically like on and off.
Finally - someone after my own heart! My son insists I have a cell phone so I put it in the car when I go somewhere - then put it back on the charger when I get home. I still have a landline (included in my cable) and IF I want to talk to someone - I do it at home in comfort - NOT in the middle of the grocery store etc! I guess that makes me an old fossil! Oh well....
I just celebrated my 80th, so I am definitely an old fossil. I like to have the phone when I am driving the car and by myself. Otherwise, it resides in the charger. We do not have a land line, but several phones that are all over the house for our home phone. Techie does not want to change because it would be a very large pain. I don't pretend to understand how all this stuff works. I don't like to talk on the phone anyway, so am happy to be unavailable most of the time.