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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.

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  • This may or may not be useful… 

    I am somewhat competent at IT but probably slightly below average for someone from the UK of my age (mid 40s) - mainly because I am unmotivated to learn because it doesn’t catch my interest to learn more about IT. I need it a bit for work but mostly my job is person rather than computer based. 

    Typically I just want to get the thing I need to done without too much flapping around.

    I used to use android phones and computers but I have switched everything over to apple gradually because when I got my first apple devise I felt it was easier to use. If there was something I didn’t know how to do, it felt maybe 40% easier to work out how to do it myself  in apple devises as opposed to android. 

    With PCs and android smart phones I realise I always had this feeling there were things lurking in the background that I didn’t understand. Of course there are, by design, lots of things lurking in Apple devises and any computer that I don’t understand, in the hardware and the software - but something about the Apple user interface makes me blissfully unaware of this  - like a really good show at the theatre where you never notice the light effects but still they enrich your experience of the play without you thinking about it -  this never happens to me, I constantly notice the lights moving and changing - but apple devises for me are like a really good theatre show I can watch with the illusion it’s seamless and effortlessly functional. But I suppose other people’s experiences will vary considerably. 

    I may be remembering wrong and perhaps they have changed but I feel like android phones had 100s of menus of settings and options that I felt may need attention and learning about but which I didn’t have the energy to learn about and they were not ordered intuitively for me. I don’t have that feeling anymore, with Apple, that there is something “lurking”. 

    The advise on the apple website (you can search for a thing you want to do on apple phone) is, I find, easy to use. I also sometimes take my phone or computer to the Apple Store and the staff there are various levels of overjoyed and delighted to be asked to help. Having said that it is a bit of a cult or something…. But I am a signed up Apple cult member I’m afraid. 

    Disclaimer; No AI was used in any capacity in the writing of this post. Furthermore no humans (or AI) were harmed or exploited in the construction of this post. Please excuse grammar and readability errors as I am not a massive data glob. 

    P.S. I’m working on a new email footer and disclaimer to denote that I don’t use AI - just trying it out here …. Ho ho 

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  • This may or may not be useful… 

    I am somewhat competent at IT but probably slightly below average for someone from the UK of my age (mid 40s) - mainly because I am unmotivated to learn because it doesn’t catch my interest to learn more about IT. I need it a bit for work but mostly my job is person rather than computer based. 

    Typically I just want to get the thing I need to done without too much flapping around.

    I used to use android phones and computers but I have switched everything over to apple gradually because when I got my first apple devise I felt it was easier to use. If there was something I didn’t know how to do, it felt maybe 40% easier to work out how to do it myself  in apple devises as opposed to android. 

    With PCs and android smart phones I realise I always had this feeling there were things lurking in the background that I didn’t understand. Of course there are, by design, lots of things lurking in Apple devises and any computer that I don’t understand, in the hardware and the software - but something about the Apple user interface makes me blissfully unaware of this  - like a really good show at the theatre where you never notice the light effects but still they enrich your experience of the play without you thinking about it -  this never happens to me, I constantly notice the lights moving and changing - but apple devises for me are like a really good theatre show I can watch with the illusion it’s seamless and effortlessly functional. But I suppose other people’s experiences will vary considerably. 

    I may be remembering wrong and perhaps they have changed but I feel like android phones had 100s of menus of settings and options that I felt may need attention and learning about but which I didn’t have the energy to learn about and they were not ordered intuitively for me. I don’t have that feeling anymore, with Apple, that there is something “lurking”. 

    The advise on the apple website (you can search for a thing you want to do on apple phone) is, I find, easy to use. I also sometimes take my phone or computer to the Apple Store and the staff there are various levels of overjoyed and delighted to be asked to help. Having said that it is a bit of a cult or something…. But I am a signed up Apple cult member I’m afraid. 

    Disclaimer; No AI was used in any capacity in the writing of this post. Furthermore no humans (or AI) were harmed or exploited in the construction of this post. Please excuse grammar and readability errors as I am not a massive data glob. 

    P.S. I’m working on a new email footer and disclaimer to denote that I don’t use AI - just trying it out here …. Ho ho 

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