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What really drives me crazy? (so-called) smart phones!

Sherlock77

Sherlock77

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Call me a luddite if you want, but trying to figure out the settings of smart phones gets me the most frustrated of anything I have to do

In most things I am very patient and methodical in working through, but get angry and frustrated over trying to figure out the settings, and almost have no patience for it, and I'm only 47! My friend who is 73 deals with all this new technology with great ease

Situation? An issue of sorts today with sharing a photo from my phone, and it kept wanting to use a Google folders link, not the actual photo... I think I might have figured it out...

I've only had the phone since December, a Google Pixel 3a, and it seems like there are a million ways to turn the sound off on various functions, and a thousand ways to accidentally turn sound off when I don't even know I'm done it...

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Well, I am 74 and I do not have a problem with my smart phone. If my wife or I have a problem, we just get one of the grand kids to set it up for us. If it wasn't for them we would probably still have a rotary phone.
 
Yep, I turn to my grandkids to fix my phones, too. :) All I want to do is text, call and take/send photos, and I can figure those things out usually. But then it'll decide to do things on it's own. The other day I was waiting for a text back from my daughter, and hours later picked up my phone for something else and found it had been on airplane mode. Don't know how that happened.
 
clg114 said:
Well, I am 74 and I do not have a problem with my smart phone. If my wife or I have a problem, we just get one of the grand kids to set it up for us. If it wasn't for them we would probably still have a rotary phone.
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I think that's the solution, I don't have any children let alone grandchildren... :cool:
 
Pats said:
Yep, I turn to my grandkids to fix my phones, too. :) All I want to do is text, call and take/send photos, and I can figure those things out usually. But then it'll decide to do things on it's own. The other day I was waiting for a text back from my daughter, and hours later picked up my phone for something else and found it had been on airplane mode. Don't know how that happened.
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I think they are too smart sometimes...
 
My phone is always dialing my friend in another state. I just tell her my phone needs Prozac, because it keeps dialing people (otherwise know as a butt call, when you sat on your phone).
My phone is skilled in pissing me off but l figure hanging out with it is the same as going to anger management classes. Now l just treat my phone like it's a 4 year-old kid who doesn't know what it wants.
 
Guess I'm a luddite. Don't own one.
No kids or grandkids either.
The little old fashioned one I have does what I want.
Talk, text, or send and take photos.
Oh, well.
 
I don't own one either, but that doesn't make me a luddite either. I've just never had or felt a need to operate a computing device beyond my front door.
 
I gave up AAA years ago, because the Internet basically made it obsolete. But I did need a tow truck a couple years ago. I used my smart phone to find a nearby one with good ratings. I also use it in place of a GPS device (satnav, to you Brits).

My phone has dozens of options I don't care about and don't think I need. I just ignore those. I do like the nice camera that today's smart phones have.

My husband, who has dementia, is having trouble even using his smart phone as a phone - which ought to be the minimum function! So I bought him a flip phone for phone calls (which he still has trouble with) and kept service on the smart phone so he can read emails and the Internet. I figure that will only be meaningful a few more months, and then I'll drop it.

I can't believe there are people willing to drop $1500 on these latest iPhones. That's just ridiculous!
 
I've had 2, got my 1st 1 in 2013. Bought my current 1 in 2016, it's a Samsung 5 and still works fine.
 
Sherlock77 said:
Situation? An issue of sorts today with sharing a photo from my phone, and it kept wanting to use a Google folders link, not the actual photo... I think I might have figured it out...
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Yes, this is the kind of thing that gets me frustrated about phones. It's not so much that I can't figure it out - actually I learn new stuff like this very quickly, it's more that I don't have as much control over the functions as I do on my desktop. I can't block ads from the apps (but can in on the web equivalent), the screen and keyboard is so small that I find it hard to read or write, and also, because of the small screen everything is in bits and I can't get a visual overview on how something works. I much prefer to use my laptop or desktop computer. Laptops and PCs are tools, whereas smartphones are more social devices (to aid communication/socialising).
 
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