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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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  • I have always been a die hard One Plus android user, usually I’d have my sons cast offs and the when he left home I’d purchase them from CEX.

    After seeing how much easier other students at college with iPhones found scanning, uploading and sharing information, I decided to buy a iPhone 14 from CEX. 

    This is the first phone I have set up on my own, that tells you how straightforward it is because I am definitely not tech savvy.

    I used the phone without a sim for a week to get used to things and whenever I got stuck ChatGPT helped tremendously.

    I explained I had autism and I needed simple instructions and it worked.

    I don’t think you’ll regret getting a smart phone once you overcome some possible initial niggles.

  • in reply to Lonehare12

    I don't know what CEX is and I'd have to have some idea of how to use the handset before being able to use chatgp or something. It dosen't feel like niggles, but an epic everest style climb. I couldn't set up my doro dumb phone by myself, when you put contact details in and press save it dosen't tell me if I'm saving to the phone or the sim card, I didn't even know this was a thing until some numpty in a phone shop lost all my contacts as well as my credit, how is anyone supposed to know this stuff?

    I talked to my daughter-in-law and she and my son are going to discuss ways to help me, choosing a handset etc, but the first thing I had to do was to tell her to stop telling me that I ABOLUTELY shouldn't get and apple, and I should ABSOLUTELY have an android, I told her that one of the problems is that some people really get on with one and not the other and who should I listen too, and that I feel like I'm sat inbetween two loud hailers both shouting opposing things at me that shound very similar.

    I'm starting to get the colleywobbles again about the whole thing now and getting competing advice isn't helping and if I do get one it'll probably end up being frisbee'd.

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  • in reply to Lonehare12

    I don't know what CEX is and I'd have to have some idea of how to use the handset before being able to use chatgp or something. It dosen't feel like niggles, but an epic everest style climb. I couldn't set up my doro dumb phone by myself, when you put contact details in and press save it dosen't tell me if I'm saving to the phone or the sim card, I didn't even know this was a thing until some numpty in a phone shop lost all my contacts as well as my credit, how is anyone supposed to know this stuff?

    I talked to my daughter-in-law and she and my son are going to discuss ways to help me, choosing a handset etc, but the first thing I had to do was to tell her to stop telling me that I ABOLUTELY shouldn't get and apple, and I should ABSOLUTELY have an android, I told her that one of the problems is that some people really get on with one and not the other and who should I listen too, and that I feel like I'm sat inbetween two loud hailers both shouting opposing things at me that shound very similar.

    I'm starting to get the colleywobbles again about the whole thing now and getting competing advice isn't helping and if I do get one it'll probably end up being frisbee'd.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Okay using your phone as a frisbee sounds like fun…I’ve never had the urge myself to indulge but hey if you feel the need to when the time comes go for it.Joy

    It sounds like you are in capable hands and around people who want to help you make the right choice.

    I wouldn’t worry too much about the android/apple question, either way you’re definitely not going to regret buying one.

    Just take bite sized chunks when you get it, don’t try to learn everything at once.

    CEX is a company that sell second hand tech you get a 5 year warranty with phones too. Most towns have one in the north and they have an online shop too. In my experience they are a good company.