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Mobile phones - the big upgrade looms....for me

  • 13-02-2017 8:39pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭


    Years ago I used to get all the latest gadgets as soon as they came out - including a Sony Betamax video player and a Sony Video camera that needed a team of native bearers to carry it; the best Technics Hi Fi that money could buy and the Nokia mobile (pictured below) that cost an arm and a leg from Telecom Eireann back in 1996! These days I'm more than happy to let it all pass me by especially when it comes to mobile phones....but my 13-year old has decided that it's time to upgrade me.

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    It started at Christmas when he gave me a strange Sony Ericsson (the small black one) to replace my lovely silver phone from the same company. My silver T303 had served me well for about 8 years (€30 new) but was starting to give up mechanically - i.e. many of the buttons were becoming unresponsive - and I knew that the inevitable was facing me. However, the new black Sony Ericsson was a disaster - a phone with a joy stick! I couldn't manage it all and mercifully my son further upgraded again me last week with a strange new (second-hand) LG phone.

    This is a strange yoke altogether and all the scrolling, pinching and other strange things leaves me baffled but I was able to go on eBay and scrum.com with it yesterday - on the train! He installed WhatsApp on it and I'm even able to use that... after a fashion. Sadly it will not end here as he is determined to complete his agenda and get me onto a serious smart phone before much longer.

    This Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch is kind of like what happens to me when I try and answer a call on the latest phone.



    I still prefer my landline for phonecalls and my trusty laptop to all this new fangled gadgetry but there's no stopping my son. Any other technophobes under pressure out there?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    You can still get phones with buttons
    ...my dad got one last year (in the post office iirc)

    And is happy enough with it...but
    It has even worse memory than him


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    You can still get phones with buttons
    ...my dad got one last year (in the post office iirc)

    And is happy enough with it...but
    It has even worse memory than him
    A Doro?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Shannon757 wrote: »
    A Doro?

    Thats your answer OP


    Also known as 'The Granny Phone'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Thats your answer OP


    Also known as 'The Granny Phone'


    Thanks but you just undid your advice with that. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Thanks but you just undid your advice with that. :D

    He meant "The Grandad phone" ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    Shannon757 wrote: »
    He meant "The Grandad phone" ;)

    And that makes it better....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    And that makes it better....


    Just take your meds and buy the damn phone, we will wheel you to the shop :pac::pac::pac::pac::pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,886 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    I actually had to check if the date of this post wasn't Jan 2002.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,088 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    You're goanna needed at least a Galaxy S8. Anything less is just a waste of time


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    bear1 wrote: »
    I actually had to check if the date of this post wasn't Jan 2002.

    Well then id be looking for one of those land line thinges with the old style dial wand.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,886 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    Well then id be looking for one of those land line thinges with the old style dial wand.

    Get them in esv shops, just ask them to stick it on the bill.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte


    I was just looking at a page for the Samsung Galaxy S8 when I my mind wandered back to this pre-mobile era Spanish TV movie about the dangers of new phones. :D



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,520 ✭✭✭learn_more


    I was discussing mobile phones with my 76 year old mum a few months back and I suggested she get a smartphone to which she replied 'is that one of those ones you rub'.

    Since then she was given a 10" tablet as a xmas gift. Ever since she has it plonked in front of her all day long and I don't see her doing crosswords anymore. She is the sort that would have to ask someone to make adjustments to the TV as she couldn't figure it out by herself.

    So all I am saying is if my mum can manage android then anyone can.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,036 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    I have a nokia from 2006 that is still going fine (except it only holds about 130 text messages). I also have a Sony Xperia from 2015 which can't make phonecalls longer than 90 seconds, and which I'm going to have to replace very soon because it is almost impossible to get the charger to "connect" to the phone. If I could use the nokia as a wifi hotspot, I'd be happy to use it as my only phone. Though I might miss whatsapp.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,363 ✭✭✭✭Del.Monte



    But it's not the slider model - poxy. Anyway, I'm under starters orders from the kids and there's no turning back. :D:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,950 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!



    That's fantastic, might have to pick one up. Yeah the silver slidy model from the Matrix was the fancied one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    The smart phones are actually easier to use than any of the older phones. Once you get used to them you won't go back.

    There are basically 3 types. iPhone, android phones and windows phones. Android are the most popular and have the most apps. iPhones are iPhones, you either want one or not. There's no advantage to them.

    I think windows is the best for anyone who's not that into having a load of apps. I think it has by far the best user interface, very straightforward and easy to use. I switched to android this year and while it's fine and and I can do everything I want to do it's just not as user friendly as the windows phone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,708 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    ScumLord wrote: »
    The smart phones are actually easier to use than any of the older phones. Once you get used to them you won't go back.

    There are basically 3 types. iPhone, android phones and windows phones. Android are the most popular and have the most apps. iPhones are iPhones, you either want one or not. There's no advantage to them.

    I think windows is the best for anyone who's not that into having a load of apps. I think it has by far the best user interface, very straightforward and easy to use. I switched to android this year and while it's fine and and I can do everything I want to do it's just not as user friendly as the windows phone.

    Where to start except that this post is full of bad advice and should not be followed.

    Windows is the least popular and more cumbersome platform.

    Android and iPhone (platform is called iOS) has various advantages and disadvantages.

    Thing is people compare Android, which is software to iPhone which is hardware.

    There are a lot of rubbish android phones out there and if you want to compare to iPhone you should be getting the more premium android phones.

    Plenty of Apps on iOS and Android by the way, no need to choose either because of quantity of apps available. All comes down to choice and preference.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,037 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989



    Nuclear war must be close


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,313 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    ScumLord wrote: »
    The smart phones are actually easier to use than any of the older phones. Once you get used to them you won't go back.

    There are basically 3 types. iPhone, android phones and windows phones. Android are the most popular and have the most apps. iPhones are iPhones, you either want one or not. There's no advantage to them.

    I think windows is the best for anyone who's not that into having a load of apps. I think it has by far the best user interface, very straightforward and easy to use. I switched to android this year and while it's fine and and I can do everything I want to do it's just not as user friendly as the windows phone.

    All bloody touch screens. Can't even buy a decent phone with a slide out keyboard anymore since the manufacturers all copied the Steve Jobs method for selling phones "this is the design you want you just don't know it yet" instead of giving people the choice

    I hope that new release 3310 supports 4G because they are already talking of scrapping the 2G networks in some places


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,708 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    All bloody touch screens. Can't even buy a decent phone with a slide out keyboard anymore since the manufacturers all copied the Steve Jobs method for selling phones "this is the design you want you just don't know it yet" instead of giving people the choice

    I hope that new release 3310 supports 4G because they are already talking of scrapping the 2G networks in some places

    Why would a non smart phone need 4g?

    Either way 3g will still be there for a while yet.

    Anyhow, you should try a smart phone, the virtual keyboards are ridiculously easy to adapt to and there is zero need for physical keyboards anymore.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,313 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Why would a non smart phone need 4g?

    Either way 3g will still be there for a while yet.

    Anyhow, you should try a smart phone, the virtual keyboards are ridiculously easy to adapt to and there is zero need for physical keyboards anymore.

    I have been using smartphones for years and have always hated the virtual keyboards. Much of the reason the manufacturers prefer touch screens is because you can just buy them in bulk along with the screen. If you design a new button phone the keypad is about 3 different components that have to be custom made for that specific phone


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    You can buy a good android phone for 100-130 euro,they come with a headphone socket and a fm radio app installed.They are easier to us than an iphone,and cheaper
    Every iphone has a slightly different interface.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Windows is the least popular and more cumbersome platform.
    I don't see how windows is cumbersome. I found it far less cumbersome than android. It's popularity has nothing to do with it's UI, which is the best I've used. Android is very dated.

    The windows phones have a set minimum standard as far as I can remember.


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