How often do you check your phone?

Badenkate ?
I'm just phoning to let you know a text has been sent reminding you to check your emails but don't worry, we'll be sending out letters confirming everything anyway....

Mrsmopp

Like Emilie, I don't have a mobile phone - are we the only two mobile-less grans? I have a land line, it beeps if there's a message so I only check it then. There's a message at the bottom of my emails to say that I'm online only in the early evening, from about 6pm-8pm, so that's the only time I pick up emails.

We have a mobile phone, just one between the 2 of us, but only use it for emergencies.
I think it can be used for texting but I've got no idea how to do that.

@mrsmopp If your phone doesn't have delivered/read reports, text your friend, then ring her, let it ring a few times & hang up. That way she'll look at her phone & see your message. Sorry if this has already been suggested, haven't read through to the end

I keep my phone on me at all times, I have a condition were I fall a lot, so phone is a must to get help when I need it.

Vissos, great idea, thanks, will try that, it seems like the answer. Hope she keeps her phone switched on, some people don't, unbelievably.

I call my friends, far easier If I text and they don't answer then I call them again and give them abuse ))

But we are talking real friends here not peripheral.

Stillaliveandkicking,
I can't do that, see the OP, I am deaf, cannot hear on the phone.
Texts and emails a godsend for me, if only my friend would check a bit more than once a week :-(

For those interested and who have a poor mobile phone signal in their home but are connected to broadband using wifi, most of the mobile operators are starting to offer 'WiFi calling' if you have a suitable handset. It is very simple to set up, it's not an app but built in to the phone operating system, you just enable it. It means you can use your mobile to make and receive calls as normal, even though you have no phone signal. If you go out of range of your WiFi router though, the call will drop. Also mobile phone operators offer translation services for the deaf, translating spoken word to text messages - a bit clunky but nevertheless useful.

All the time whilst at home but not if out. My phone is permanently on and even DH has bought a smart phone after years of having other peoples left offs.

I might watch TV and some actor comes on and I'll look them up to see what they are up to.

I check the BBC news and also the weather. Check items we might sell on eBay to see how they are doing.

I only have a feature phone so never check for emails, kids keep in touch via messenger/Facebook so I check my phone about once a week

I do have a phone. It is not lost but as I never use it I don't know where it is

I mentioned earlier in this thread that I was about to be dragged off reluctantly to get an iPhone. I now have the said phone and have hardly had it out of my hand! I have fallen into the abyss. GS asked me if I was downloading Pokemon. Now that I can resist.

About every 5 minutes! Have been totally addicted since the first IPhone I got about 5 years ago! Emails, texts, Facebook, Twitter, news, word games- you name it I look at it! Only time I don't is if I'm minding my GC. My new 5 month old baby GD wriggles so much she's a handful without looking at the phone! I realise this is a bit OTT! I do get annoyed when people I send texts to or try to ring never seem to look at theirs! Just can't understand it I suppose!