Not having a smart phone...

I love my smart phone!

I too love my smart phone it's amazing ....

I use my iPhone to send short videos to DD in Australia or receive some from both DDs ie, something GDs are doing that I would have otherwise missed seeing. DH and I ocassionally have a 4 way shared text with both DDs something that makes us all feel that DD2 isn't that far away.

We still have a landline but very rarely use it now. IPhone on the other hand gives me access to so many things wherever I am. Great piece of technology.

I feel bereft when I am somewhere with no signal as my smart phone is fabulous. It even recognised a song my son hummed to me when none of us could remember it's name last night!!

I am helping organise a school reunion and realised that I have 2 old friends that I only have addresses for so I had to dig out paper and write a letter. I even wrote by hand and didn't type as usual. Regretted it as my handwriting has really deteriorated due to lack of use - all I really write nowadays is a shopping list, that only I can read, and my signature

Due to an on-going (lack of) correspondence with Orange, I've had no usable mobile for 2 months now, smart or otherwise!

I think I would go into total meltdown if I lost my iPhone. Pathetic.

I like my iPhone, too. It 'talks' to my iPad and has so many useful apps, including a free satnav. I've had it a couple of years now, so when the contract ended I moved to 'sim only', and it only costs me £9 per month for all the texts, calls and Internet I need.

I've got one of those contracts too whenim . Agree re the wonderful synchronicity of Apple. Can take a photo on my phone then it pops up on iPad and iMac too. Witchcraft! Amazing that we didn't have even mobiles for the first 50 years or so of our lives and now can't leave home without one.

I hope your son is OK Tegan

Oh this was years ago, Katy, but thanks for the concern. The thing is, although they don't use landlines [my son hasn't got one anyway, but when I ring him on his mobile he phones me back as it costs a fortune to speak to someone on a mobile from my landline] they know that I'm always at the end of my phone if they need anything and that I always dial 1471 when I get in. And they're quite capable of using phones when they need something . I am grouchy this week, aren't I? !

Is it the heat Tegan?

My Android phone talks to my Android tablet and also talks back to me if I ask it a question. On either of these or on my 'cloud' laptop, I can video-talk to family on Google Hangouts (or Skype), though New Zealand broadband seems to be a bit erratic!

My children and grandchildren don't even have landlines any more so I've joined them and got a smart phone. Quite enjoying it but first day whilst browsing I found I'd joined some group by accident, no idea how.

My sons' families do have landlines, but all too often have let the batteries run down, or left the phone down the back of the sofa with the missing TV remote, and don't get to it in time when I ring up. It's usually quicker to ring their mobiles.

Oh sorry Tegan - didn't read it properly.

Not at all grouchy Tegan just post holiday let down? Hope you enjoyed Ely. Did you see the stained glass exhibition? Amazing!

There is a new Nokia phone due out this month. It is supposed to be the bee's knees (camera, I-net etc) and only £79 to buy outright - no monthly contract to fork out for, just pay as you go. I might get that. I would like a camera phone. It's mostly texting I do. Not many calls.

Called Nokia lumia 903 (I think)

Didn't have time for the stained glass, although I very much wanted to see it [I love stained glass]. Probably a good job we didn't book that as the guided tour itself lasted for ages. I didn't go up the tower either because we got talking to someone in the car park who then said he'd walk to the cathedral with us [was a local who told us so much fascinating stuff about the area that I didn't want to delay matters by putting my walking boots back on, and didn't want to go climbing steps wearing my Crocs]. But it gives us a reason to go back, along with spending more time at Wicken Fen. We were rather unlucky with the weather I'm afraid. I didn't realise the area flooded in winter and people skated everywhere. At the cottage at Wicken Fen they showed us some of the typical Fen skates that people used. And I had visions of Hereward the Wake hiding on the Fens and Boadicea riding her chariot along what is now Newmarket Racecourse. They are building a new Racing Museum on the site of Charles 11's palace in Newmarket so will have to go back for that when it opens.

I love texts but have the most basic mobile phone you can get, it suits me just fine. I am registered disabled here and am provided with a free landline, including calls to all European countries. Although I tend to use Skype most of the time as I love to see absent DC and GC, and friends all over the world too.

jingl Nokia uses Microsoft's Windows Phone OS as its primary smartphone platform. It might take some getting used to.

I have no mobile phone reception here at all, and do feel a bit excluded as everyone else I know communicates by text, and I used to. However, facebook keeps me well and truly in touch with most of my family, although I do wish my sisters would use it. They won't, so I use nieces and nephews as go-betweens - before facebook I doubt I would have had any contact with them at all.


Tegan, you don't have to put a photo of yourself on facebook. You don't have to put anything on at all if you don't want to. My advice is that you just join, and request your children to be your friends. That bit is automatically on view, as you view their page after you join. Then tick 'follow' once you are accepted. After that, whenever you log in go to 'Home' and you will see the news feeds from family who are your friends. If you wish to make the odd statement of your own, such as 'going to Ely cathedral tomorrow', at least they will know where you are and when to expect you back. My Mil does it all the time. By us 'liking' her posts, she knows that we acknowledge her existence!

I love texting. I'm a bit shy and if I can get away with a text or email I will!

The last time I had a landline was 2002. I love all the technology that's around now. I'm tempted to buy a Smart TV after watching my Ds.

I love my Nokia Lumina. I find it very easy to use.

It's what I use daily for GN, Google (no booting up the laptop if I need an answer quick) and texting. I tend to text DD as it doesn't require an immediate response which is often difficult with two under 5s. I also love that DD and I can share a diary. With me doing so much childcare and DGS having several medical appointments it's a Godsend.

ok, I don't mind texting, arrived safely etc, but I do get the hump when the first I see of one of the family being away are pictures on facebook, flickr or other social networks. A text to say I am off for a few days, a week or fortnight before they go is all I ask, or is that too much to ask?