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I'm thinking I may have to get a smart phone

TheCatWoman

Please be gentle with me and try and explain in the language you'd use to someone who'd come 100 years into the future.

What would you recomend as a starter smart phone for someone like me who can crash a digital egg timer?

I know there are two types, apple and android and apple is more expensive although some find them easier to use.

I did have a smart phone once for a few weeks, but couldn't get on with it, I don't think it was set right as the screen kept going black whilst I was looking for things like settings and I never worked out how to answe a call on it as the screen was black and gave me no hints at all and it's connectivity was so bad I only had to be a couple of hundred yards away from the A55 for it to be useless. That was a few years ago now and I think conectivity has improved.

If I'm honest I don't want one for myself, but because it's becoming so hard not to have one now, I don't think I'd want it to do much, just calls texts and maybe whatsapp and a satnav. Later I suppose I'll have to have a banking and car park app too, but I think thats about it. I know previously when I asked a friend for help she freaked out because there was so little on it.

Apart from emails, a little shopping and here I don't really used the internet for anything else, I have a kindle and thats my lot, I don't even stream tv or music, to be honest I wouldn't know where to begin with either of them. I'm quite happy for it to be second hand, given the price of the things and how much I'd use one I don't think I could justify the cost of a new one. I'm not fussed about cameras or anything like that.

Thanks in advance for any help, but I'll understand if nobody wants to give any because I'm such a klutz and my understanding is so low, people often ask me "helpful questions" and they go right over my head. I may chicken out again, if it gets too technical or people get cross.

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    That's good advice from   as a family member can guide you click by click if you have the same device.

  • Do you know anyone else in real life with a smart phone? The best advice is getting something that someone can help you with -if family have apple phones, or android, get the same. 

    I think for you, it's not so much getting the best of anything, but the fact it works like theirs. Nothing worse than family trying to call you and it not working as you have a completely different system!

    (Or if people here will be your tech support on how to use it, go with that!)

  • I would be very happy to give you any help I can but I’m out of touch with smartphones other than Apple’s iPhone. If you decided on an iPhone I would be happy to help. I would have to ask you to be gentle with me too though.

    iPhone’s are more ‘intuitive’ (simpler and more straightforward) than other types of smartphone. They are considered more secure from malicious attacks and they continue to update old old iPhones for longer than some other types.

    I’m on my way out now but I can suggest some things for you to consider and reject/accept tomorrow if it would help. Perhaps somebody more knowledgeable than I will help in the meantime.