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What mobile phone do u use and why?
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Aug 16, 2014 02:30AM
Im using IPhone 4. I cud update my twitter, Fb and goodreads on free giveaway etc. What more do I need? How about you guys?
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An elderly Samsung without email capabilities. If I want the internet I have a tablet with a 3G sim and I use that.
Mine is a Samsung which is only used for sending and receiving texts. It will do more (ie phone and camera) but I have a much better real camera to use and I can't be bothered to faff around using the phone bit of it. It probably would send emails or browse the internet, but again I have much superior tools for those jobs, rather than trying to read on the tidgy screen.I did want a mobile that was just that without all the unwanted extras but it doesn't seem as though there is much of a choice.
I've got a Samsung Galaxy II. Why? Cuz it was free.
I've got a Samsung Galaxy SIII Mini. It's the first smartphone I've had and I find it easy to use.I bought it, SIM free, cheap from Amazon. I use it with a Virgin VIP SIM which includes unlimited calls,texts and data.
I like it as it's quite compact but the screen is big enough for me to see easily. It's used mainly for calls and texts but I do use the data sometimes for maps, bus times etc.
I have tried out the camera and video and both are fine but I usually use a proper camera. It's a good back up if I've forgotten to take my camera with me.
I also use the calendar to remind me of appointments and things.
I have got quite a few apps on it which I use occasionally such as Google, Catch Up TV, a flashlight and a few games. But I mostly use a tablet for the games.
Wouldn't want to be without it now. I'll probably keep this one till it conks out. It does what I want it to and I don't have to have the latest phone out.
Had an iPhone 4 hubby wanted it, so I got an iPhone 5s and use it for everything. FB, goodreads and running apps. Pictures and videos and also IM to meet up with friends. Cooking apps as well.
Samsung Galaxy III, because it is pretty much a mini computer. Internet, emails (several), Goodreads app, calendar, music, maps, rudimentary word-processor. I now use it as a satnav in the car too.My only gripe is the poor battery life. But then I do use it a lot, and not just as a phone.
Smartphones are good because most have Kindle/Kobo/Nook apps so you don't need to buy multiple eReaders to test your books.
Yes our tomtom Satnav is now obselete too. It's just easier to use the phone.
Ha! Tried to use mine as a satnav and the stupid thing drained the battery trying to find it's location.
Yup, forgot about the kindle app. My galaxy is also my library. It makes a fair kindle substitute.Patti - GPS uses a lot of juice. I tend to switch it off when I'm not using it and plug the phone into the charger when I'm using it as a satnav.
Geeze, I've got a Motorola v6 Razr flip-phone. I use it to make telephone calls and send text messages, because that's pretty much all it can do.
David wrote: "Geeze, I've got a Motorola v6 Razr flip-phone. I use it to make telephone calls and send text messages, because that's pretty much all it can do."I didn't even know Razr flip phones were still around!
I've got a Sony Xperia something. They updated the operating system (Android 4.IDK) and now it makes me want to throw the damn thing across the room. However, I use it to collect email mostly, but also to come on Goodreads. Today I have been checking ebook formatting on it too.
I've got the HTC One Mini, which I use mostly as a phone, calls, texts, whatsapp, emails very light internet browsing.I do use it as an alarm and for taking pics of things not in my size in stores etc to source online later.
Debbie wrote: "David wrote: "Geeze, I've got a Motorola v6 Razr flip-phone. I use it to make telephone calls and send text messages, because that's pretty much all it can do."I didn't even know Razr flip phones..."
Amazingly, you can still buy an unlocked one on Amazon for about 50 USD! But it's v3. My bad that I gave myself credit for a v6 when they never even got that far!
Mines a BlackBerry, use it for everything but not reading books. Its fairly crap as a telephone though.
David wrote: "Amazingly, you can still buy an unlocked one on Amazon for about 50 USD! But it's v3. My bad that I gave myself credit for a v6 when they never even got that far! "That's quite incredible. These things do last then. ;)
Don't think I'd want to read books on my phone it's hard enough texting.
Debbie wrote: "David wrote: "Amazingly, you can still buy an unlocked one on Amazon for about 50 USD! But it's v3. My bad that I gave myself credit for a v6 when they never even got that far! "That's quite incr..."
Sadly, though, I can't use it to control the 8-track player in my Chevy Corvair...
David wrote: "Sadly, though, I can't use it to control the 8-track player in my Chevy Corvair... "LOL.
Debbie wrote: "David wrote: "Sadly, though, I can't use it to control the 8-track player in my Chevy Corvair... "LOL."
My daughter uses her phone as a remote for the TV .
I'd not read books on my phone any more than I'd read on my iPad.Ick.
This is what too much technology does to kids, I was with my daughter and had to buy a 21 birthday card to send to Birmingham because we can't make the party. My daughter says"how we going to send the card, are you driving up there?" "No, thank God there is a company called Royal Mail to deliver it for us!" Lol
Dunno whether to laugh or cry, Bookworm.
I found it funny, she didn't see why it was funny though.
I've got the samsung galaxy s2. It was working great until I dropped it in the toilet... Still alive just about but quite unhealthy! I can upgrade in November but looking in to upgrading early. Everything I like seems crazy expensive!
What's with kids these days taking their phone into the toilet?Fucking gross.
A silver nokia somethingI'm on Tesco PAYG Lite and if someone texts me, I'll wait until I can email them back on a computer as I'm too tight to spend 4p to reply :)
By the time I get to a computer I've forgotten to reply anyway.
Yay Joo!I do Facebook or email.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "What's with kids these days taking their phone into the toilet?Fucking gross."
Katy wrote: "I've got the samsung galaxy s2. It was working great until I dropped it in the toilet... Still alive just about but quite unhealthy!
You can't beat my daughter, dropped a day old phone in the river whilst cycling.
I can upgrade in November but looking in to upgrading early. E..."
I would like to say that I didn't take my phone into the toilet on purpose. Usually I take it out of my back pocket and put it on side in the kitchen. The one time I forgot, it fell out of my back pocket and into the toilet
HTC something. Use it for loads but don't like the phone. Can upgrade in Oct. Might look at getting sim free, talk talk do good sim only deals
Katy wrote: "I would like to say that I didn't take my phone into the toilet on purpose. Usually I take it out of my back pocket and put it on side in the kitchen. The one time I forgot, it fell out of my back ..."Excuses, excuses. ;)
Kids these days.
My brother in law keeps his phone in his shirt breast pocket and has to date dropped two I phones down the loo. One he got back, the other was a public French Turkish style toilet and no way did he even think about getting it back.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Katy wrote: "I would like to say that I didn't take my phone into the toilet on purpose. Usually I take it out of my back pocket and put it on side in the kitchen. The one time I forgot, it fell ou..."I think she really took it in there so she could take a selfie and send it to you, Patti.
I have 100 minutes a month on my phone but I use about 10. Mostly use mine for the data. Audible or Kindle, Facebook and suchlike but very little texting or phoning. Strangely when I go to Paris I seem to make far more calls or incoming calls. Roll on the free data in December.
I've got an IBM Simon. Yes, it's fairly big and you need both hands to carry it because of the weight. True the battery only lasts an hour but I can send and receive faxes once I've plugged it in so essentially I have myself a mobile office.
I have a HTC Desire S which is about two and a half years old and still working fine. I use it for facebook, email, texting, photos, wordfeud, bus times, games, exchange rate, dropbox, goodreads, alarm, and the very occasional phone call.
I have a Galaxy S3 mini which has been great but is starting to get a bit glitchy and freezes a lot (I think I possibly have a bad effect on electronics!) If and when it gives out or gets to the point at which I need a new one, I'm thinking of an S4 or S4 mini.
Mobile faxes aren't new - I had a Nokia 9310 communicator at least 10 years ago - it was a very clever piece of equipment but it died when replacement batteries were hard to get and very expensive . It cost a lot of money - I may be wrong but I think it was about £1000, but if you wanted to work with contracts etc and be mobile it was brilliant. When I got back to my office I forwarded my received faxes to my office machine to print out.
I have an iPhone 4s. I use it as a satnav in the car, for listening to audiobooks and tunes (it replaced my ageing iPod), it's an ereader for if I don't have my tablet with me, a camera when I don't have a real camera (am I the only one that goes to locations from my books and takes selfies holding the paperback?), It tells me about traffic delays, flight times, cinema times, twitter, Facebook, messages, it can remotely set the set top box to record a programme, my data contract (3 One Plan) allows tethering, so it acts as a wifi hotspot for my iPad when there's no public wifi, messages, Skype, podcasts, iPlayer etc if I'm desperate...Oh, and the occasional phone call.
Oh, Tim! I never thought of that - East coast beaches, here I (and Message in a Bottle paperback) come!
selfies with the paperback?? ha that's a marketing idea..
I have a Galaxy 3 mini (somewhere)! I use it mainly for work, forget to charge it and often hear it ringing from the cupboard where I store my handbags. I get 400 free minutes a month and often have 390 unused!
owwww!! i wonder how many mobile phones everyone has at all!
I've got a UK PAYG BlackBerry, a little Nokia on my French contract, there's also another Nokia with a UK sim in it and a bit of credit left over from the burglar alarm system. OH has a BB like mine but had to buy an I phone for the new burglar alarm. There's a spare BB in the cupboard which my daughter gave us when she changed hers over. Too many!
I've got a UK PAYG BlackBerry, a little Nokia on my French contract, there's also another Nokia with a UK sim in it and a bit of credit left over from the burglar alarm system. OH has a BB like mine but had to buy an I phone for the new burglar alarm. There's a spare BB in the cupboard which my daughter gave us when she changed hers over. Too many!
