New smart phone, What!

[Tumshie]

2 minutes ago, Boater Sam said:

Due to my ignore list I am losing the thread here, its a problem but I can live with it.

Nobody cares about your ignore list and everybody knows you ignore it anyway, so your song and dance about it is pretty much irrelevant. 

 

[WotEver]

5 minutes ago, Boater Sam said:

In fact what I need is not a 'phone but a Wifi connected computer small enough to fit in a pocket but does such a thing exist?

Yes. It’s called a smart phone. 

[rusty69]

1 minute ago, WotEver said:

Yes. It’s called a smart phone. 

Keep taking the tablets!

[Tumshie]

6 minutes ago, Boater Sam said:

In fact what I need is not a 'phone but a Wifi connected computer small enough to fit in a pocket but does such a thing exist?

Which is what a smartphone is - Can I call him a moron without getting banned?

 

[system 4-50]

One-eyed? No, no-eyed will be the future.  Multiple external cameras will connect directly by wifi to an implant in wherever you keep your brain.  Physical eyes will be redundant.  Oh and there will be extra CAN feeds from local radars for NN and his flying friends. 

[rusty69]

9 minutes ago, Boater Sam said:

The smart is for the other clever things, GPS and hence speed, star patterns, pictures etc. In fact what I need is not a 'phone but a Wifi connected computer small enough to fit in a pocket but does such a thing exist?

Ah, yes.I know exactly what it is you need BS.........Oh, what's the point!!!!!!

[Boater Sam]

3 minutes ago, WotEver said:

Yes. It’s called a smart phone. 

I had a horrible feeling that it was.

I think therefore I "think" I need one.     Sounds familiar, heard that somewhere else.

[magpie patrick]

8 minutes ago, Boater Sam said:

In fact what I need is not a 'phone but a Wifi connected computer small enough to fit in a pocket but does such a thing exist?

My landlady has a smart phone with no SIM card, it is only used on wifi. It wasn't new when she got it (daughter's cast off?) and cost her nothing. The way LL uses the phone it is effectively a very small tablet.

 

My phone can do almost anything my laptop can do, but editing long documents would be tedious, or rather, making multiple edits would

[WotEver]

2 minutes ago, magpie patrick said:

My phone can do almost anything my laptop can do, but editing long documents would be tedious, or rather, making multiple edits would

That’s one thing I hate doing on any mobile device. I tried writing some scripts on an iPad last year so that I could be sociable and sit in the lounge with the missus. I had to give up and sit at a proper computer. 

[Boater Sam]

4 minutes ago, magpie patrick said:

My landlady has a smart phone with no SIM card, it is only used on wifi. It wasn't new when she got it (daughter's cast off?) and cost her nothing. The way LL uses the phone it is effectively a very small tablet.

 

My phone can do almost anything my laptop can do, but editing long documents would be tedious, or rather, making multiple edits would

That sounds like a possible solution. I never realised that they would do anything without a sim, how does it charge for data use?

[Dyertribe]

7 minutes ago, Tumshie said:

Which is what a smartphone is - Can I call him a moron without getting banned?

 

You could plead you were speaking Welsh, moron is the Welsh for carrot

[rusty69]

Just now, Boater Sam said:

That sounds like a possible solution. I never realised that they would do anything without a sim, how does it charge for data use?

It uses your existing Wifi network BS.It charges through a standard power source.

 

Oh, I give up!

[journeyperson]

4 hours ago, LadyG said:

It takes a few mins to find out how to find the keyboard [lower right square dotty icon]] which is essential.

I think that's the number pad and I agree that can panic you when you are asked to enter a number and the number pad is nowhere to be seen

[rusty69]

19 minutes ago, system 4-50 said:

One-eyed? No, no-eyed will be the future.  Multiple external cameras will connect directly by wifi to an implant in wherever you keep your brain.  Physical eyes will be redundant.  Oh and there will be extra CAN feeds from local radars for NN and his flying friends. 

I've no-eye-deer if that is correct.Hang on, this isn't the moose/deer head thread.

[frahkn]

34 minutes ago, doratheexplorer said:

It can be hard to tell how old members on here are.  I suspect I'm younger than most.  Who dares start an 'admit to your age thread'?

Your age is in your profile - at least mine is. The site used to have a daily birthday list which was (presumably) based on this.

[journeyperson]

2 hours ago, rusty69 said:

Ok, so it seems you are either an Android fan or an Apple fan.

 

Anyone prefer windows phones here?

I had one and liked it, except apps were limited. I keep it as a spare but haven't Microsoft discontinued updates and support?

[Tumshie]

4 minutes ago, frahkn said:

Your age is in your profile - at least mine is. The site used to have a daily birthday list which was (presumably) based on this.

You don't have to list your birthday - I haven't. You've been a member longer than me so this might be something that's changed over the years. 

 

[magpie patrick]

3 minutes ago, Tumshie said:

You don't have to list your birthday - I haven't. You've been a member longer than me so this might be something that's changed over the years. 

 

Yeah but when I joined I was 40 and delighted in my youth...

 

13 years later I might want to reinvent myself....

[Machpoint005]

5 hours ago, rusty69 said:

. The obvious benefit of a dumb phone is the battery life. 

 

Get a smartphone and you will be forever charging it. 

 

 

 

That's what I thought until I threw I my Nokia thickfone in for an HTC android a few years ago. The battery life is 3-4 days, longer than I was getting from the Nokia, but that depends on keeping it disconnected from tinternet/mobile data unless you actually want to send an email or read a newspaper online. You can also use it in "saver" mode to stop it eating up resources when you are not looking.

 

 

 

 

[Murflynn]

54 minutes ago, doratheexplorer said:

Futurama started 20 years ago, and predicted a one-eyed future human.

that's me then.   

[Tumshie]

2 minutes ago, magpie patrick said:

Yeah but when I joined I was 40 and delighted in my youth...

 

13 years later I might want to reinvent myself....

I don't think you need reinventing. You're alright as is. 

[Machpoint005]

1 hour ago, Tumshie said:

is there some specific function that a smartphone can give you that a dumbphone can't

 

Yes - a diary (OK, calendar), looking up rugby, cricket and football scores, a metronome, and a calculator that looks just like a 1980s Casio Scientific.

[Tim Lewis]

4 hours ago, gbclive said:

A couple of other points to consider.

 

It may well end up in the cut?

Phones are surprisingly slippery and thus easy to drop and either break or drown.

So perhaps avoid spending too much on it and get a shock resistant frame.

 

Many smart phones these days can’t easily have their battery replaced, so become obsolete sooner than those that can.

 

Many smartphones today are waterproof!

[Machpoint005]

1 minute ago, Tim Lewis said:

 

Many smartphones today are waterproof!

 

Mobile phones used to have a little tag to attach a wrist strap. My smartfone doesn't, so I leave it inside the boat. 

[Tim Lewis]

1 minute ago, Machpoint005 said:

 

Mobile phones used to have a little tag to attach a wrist strap. My smartfone doesn't, so I leave it inside the boat. 

I ruined a brand new iPhone once when it went to the bottom of the canal, unfortunately it was in my pocket at the time ?