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[Colin_T]

I just got a phone!! (iPhone 12 pro)

The camera is amazing:

what's a phone?

 

[NannaLou]

what's a phone?

It’s a really long bit of string with a paper cup at each end…you take turns to shout into your paper cup while the other person listens to the cup on their end…and then you swap…

 

[PheonixKingZ]

what's a phone?

You wouldn’t understand… old man.

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Congratulations on your new phone, the cameras are amazing now, but I won’t have an IPhone…android for me
Samsung’s cameras have got REALLY good after the past year or so. Apple is still a TAD better.

 

[Fishmanic]

Colin: a newfangled Phone is a computer, a camera, a video game machine, and a way to talk and see people as far as the other side of the globe all in one device--- @Colin_T - at your age, it could also save your life as you can call an ambulance in case you have a medical emergency - you NEED to get a phone , Colin.

 

[NannaLou]

I have mentioned this in a ‘plant exchange’ thread only to realise it hasn’t been used since 2018 I have water spangles growing like crazy, if anyone in the uk wants any send me a pm and I can pop some in the post

 

[Colin_T]

Colin: a newfangled Phone is a computer, a camera, a video game machine, and a way to talk and see people as far as the other side of the globe all in one device--- @Colin_T - at your age, it could also save your life as you can call an ambulance in case you have a medical emergency - you NEED to get a phone , Colin.

One of my sister's used to be called ET at school because her first name started with e and out last name starts with t. so ET phone home?

 

[Essjay]

Can phone users enlighten me please.

1. How do you manage to touch the right part of the screen on such a tiny device? I can't do it on a 10 inch tablet. I have to use a stylus or I touch the wrong bit.

2. How can you cope with having to type touching one letter at a time? Two of the keys on my husband's laptop have stopped working so he has to use the virtual keyboard and click on one letter at a time. It is painfully slow compared to using several fingers on two hands to type.

3. How do you manage to read anything on such a tiny screen? When my son tries to show me something on his phone, either there are only a few words visible to make it big enough to read, or there are lots of words and you need a magnifying glass to read them. And how can you see any detail on photographs on such a small screen unless you enlarge a small portion?



I use a 15.4 inch laptop most of the time. I also have a 10 inch Amazon Fire which I mainly use for reading books as I find it so fiddly to use for anything else.

 

[NannaLou]

Can phone users enlighten me please.

1. How do you manage to touch the right part of the screen on such a tiny device? I can't do it on a 10 inch tablet. I have to use a stylus or I touch the wrong bit.

With great difficulty, but predictive text is brilliant

2. How can you cope with having to type touching one letter at a time? Two of the keys on my husband's laptop have stopped working so he has to use the virtual keyboard and click on one letter at a time. It is painfully slow compared to using several fingers on two hands to type.

Keep communications short and use predictive text (my daughter uses two thumbs and can type faster like that than I can type on a full keyboard

3. How do you manage to read anything on such a tiny screen? When my son tries to show me something on his phone, either there are only a few words visible to make it big enough to read, or there are lots of words and you need a magnifying glass to read them. And how can you see any detail on photographs on such a small screen unless you enlarge a small portion?

Take my glasses off

I think it might be an age thing

 

[Essjay]

I've disabled predictive text on my basic mobile, I can't stand a machine telling me what it thinks I should type when I want to type something completely different I can actually type quite fast on that - with a basic phone or dumb phone you have a screen at the top and a keypad below that and you click each number button to type a letter. S annoys me though as that's such a common letter and you have to click the 7 key four times.
I have Word set so that it doesn't flag up mis-spellings etc as I type, but I do ask it to spell check when I've finished so that I can choose if I want to change anything.


You have read some of my posts on here, they would take forever to type on a phone


I have to put my glasses on to read anything. Default replacement lenses with cataract surgery are long distance lenses so I don't need glasses to see way in the distance but I do need reading glasses for anything close to.


I suppose it's what you are used to. All I want a mobile for is to make calls when I go out. And I haven't been out much for the last 18 months with Covid 19.

 

[NannaLou]

I don’t use my phone for this, I’m on an IPad…

 

[Essjay]

When the screen on my old laptop was playing up I did use a 10 inch Fire - very slowly

 

[Sunnyspots]

I type one fingered on my tablet whilst holding it in my other hand and peering through the bottom of my glasses. And I'm only in my 50s!

 

[NannaLou]

I type one fingered on my tablet whilst holding it in my other hand and peering through the bottom of my glasses. And I'm only in my 50s!

Me too

 

[PheonixKingZ]

1. How do you manage to touch the right part of the screen on such a tiny device? I can't do it on a 10 inch tablet. I have to use a stylus or I touch the wrong bit.

Well... the 12 pro is a rather big phone. It also has a lot more screen than previously models. It’s super easy for me, even with my fat thumbs.

2. How can you cope with having to type touching one letter at a time? Two of the keys on my husband's laptop have stopped working so he has to use the virtual keyboard and click on one letter at a time. It is painfully slow compared to using several fingers on two hands to type.

With the newer phones (mine included) you can do something called “swipe texting”. That’s where you start by holding down the beginning letter of the word, and then go to the next letter and then the next letter.

Apple got it really good on this one. (You can YouTube it - they could show you better via a video than I could via text. )

3. How do you manage to read anything on such a tiny screen? When my son tries to show me something on his phone, either there are only a few words visible to make it big enough to read, or there are lots of words and you need a magnifying glass to read them. And how can you see any detail on photographs on such a small screen unless you enlarge a small portion?

I do have good eyes, and I’m young, lol.

Also the bigger the phone, the easier the words are to read.

You can also make the text size bigger in setting.