touchscreen phone - are you happy with yours?

what are the features that you use most and are the different apps just using up the battery?

 

More or less yes. I'd rather have a normal button keypad though. Easier to use. I use the internet on mine loads, the music player, the camera, and a few free games like poker and sudoko. It's more of a mini computer to me than a phone. You can shut down apps you aren't using to save the battery a bit. Admittedly there are a lot of things I DON'T use on it.

 

It's too small so I keep hitting the wrong key with my great sausage-like fingers.a

 

I still use an old Nokia N95 .... even those keys are too small for me

my son has an apple iphone .... when he upgrades, I may take his one .... he showed me that you can make the alpahabet numbers larger

I only text and call and sometimes take a photo or 2 .... I dont even know how to connect to the internet etc

 

I hate my phone so much that I have on many occasions been very tempted to smash it up. The touch screen either doesn't respond at all unless you press really hard, or you press one bit and it registers on a completely different. I can usually make it work temporarily by massaging the screen so that any stuck bits free up, or bashing the screen with my fist, which seems to temporarily dislodge it. My contract is up for renewal soon, so I'll be much more choosy when I renew.

 

:D

Val

 

sounds quite kinky .... replace the word 'phone' with someones name and it could relate to a relationship

 

I bought my wife an INQ Cloud touch screen and she loves it // at first she found it difficult but now she would never go back to the Flintstone buttons .. her phone is part Android and has all the bells and whistles ..
you do have to charge these type of phones more often though ..
but very happy with a touch screen Micky

 

I just absolutely love mine.
The satnav actually works.
A nice big calculator.
Great for News and Weather getting up to date football scores..any sport.
A diary.
Music and radio but that does use the juice.
Barcode reader.
A decent camera.....it holds loads of pics.
Oh hands free in the car....of course you can actually make phone calls and texts.
Virgin gave me the phone and it's 10.99 a month for all this.

Oh yes and I can get Gardeners Corner on it......

 

Nokia N95 8gig for me,just cant get the hang of touch screen 1st tap nothing next tap anything can happen but never the bit I wanted.

 

Having spent an hour the other day trying to persuade my phone that I would like to call my wife, no, not the girl I used to work with who I'm still friends with, and no, I don't want to send 45 blank text messages to my friend Andrew. Nor do I want to go on the internet, I'm not about to step onto a plane so flight mode is really not required at this time, and I don't wish to rearrange my VIP contact list that I never set up in the first place, I just want to phone my wife, is that too much to ask given that I pay £31 every month just for the privilege of phoning my wife during my lunch break because lets face it, with a phone that does as it wishes 99.99% of the time, there's absolutely no point expecting it to do anything more complicated, so after an hour of this frustration the other day, I have just ordered myself a new phone.

Just maybe, my friends will soon come to believe that I am back to normal. No longer will I get calls asking why I tried 300 times to call someone through the night, or why I sent 500 blank text messages, and no longer will I have to ignore everyone for fear of sending 300 messages and starting a video call with a stranger just because I had the nerve to try to unlock the keypad.

Modern technology eh? How did we ever manage without it.:wallbang:

 

Embrace the technology Clueless,don't fight it......You will feel so much better

 

I used to have a baic, calculator sized push the button phone, and it would also text
Then my Grandaughter got a super duper Ipad touch does everything phone so gave her ex super duper touch screen does most things phone to Grandad

OMG, You apparently move your figer across the screen and it moves to other aps, then you move your finger up and down to select the number or name you want to call
Does it hell, as soon as you touch it it either calls someone you never wanted to call, or connects to the internet at a zillion pence a minute
I have eventually found my own number written it down and cellotaped it to the back of my phone and that was Christmas 2010
A year later I still can not use it easily
I am embarrased to say I was a network IT engineer for 30 years

Jack McH

 

As an IT bod with such a wealth of experience, I'm pretty sure that at many times in your career you had to quickly assess some new technology and decide whether it was functionally sound, or just a gimmick. I'm pretty sure you'll have rejected a fair few things and not wasted time and mental energy on something that your experience and instinct told you was not the right tool for the job.

You and I, I expect, have that in common, except that I've only got about half the experience. What I do know is that my experience tells me that modern gadgets are not built with functionality in mind, they are built with gimmickry in mind, and therefore I struggle with them because all my instincts tell me to dismiss them, but I know I can't because that's how things are these days, if you want to be able to phone someone, you have to carry a gadget that's as powerful as the typical desktop computer of 5 years ago, is capable of finding the ultimate question, and is on the verge of becoming self aware and taking over the world from inside your pocket

 

I'm with Clueless. Blackberry Torch marvellous for taking pics & have even managed to download music but I struggle to use it as a phone