blooming phone!

You are very brave actually. I lost my very basic one the other day and it's been a nightmare getting a replacement up and running. Have stolen husband's until I find 'time' to sort the hows and whys of the new one out.

And it's a very simple basic phone.

I broke the first sim card they sent. Pushed out the middle bit when I shouldn't have done.

I didn't know!

These things are designed to intimidate us. Don't you have a 7 year-old grandson who can deal with it for you? (No? Then you will have to wait until he/she is old enough!!) I usually find manuals worse than useless as they are written in fifty languages including Middle High Klingon but don't actually tell you anything.

My android came with about 6 basic instructions and a link to the website - not a manual to be had unless you print it out! That's my excuse for the typos, double postings etc and I'm sticking to it.

Actually, I love it!

Why are they called androids? I'm going to have to bite the bullet soon, my old one needs charging too often and it's awful for texting....

Yes, I got an android phone some months ago and still cannot do a lot on it. But I will not be beat. They are called that because that is the name of the software they run on as distinct from the software used by Apple on their phones

The things that I find so confusing is knowing when to tap and when to press touch screens. I had great problems with my phone when I started because I tended to press the touch screen rather than tap. Got that sorted but then went into my bank yesterday to get cash from the machine. Presented with a touch screen, I tapped it lightly, nothing happened, tapped again, nothing, tapped again, nothing. Finally in irritation I said something unprintable and pressed the screen. Everything started working and I got my cash. How am I to know, presented with a touch screen, when to tap and when to press?

Why are the instructions so small they look like they've come out of a Christmas cracker? I've had mine a month and still haven't got the hang of it.

"Why are they called androids?"

Isn't Android the name of the operating system they run?

I don't know. That's why I asked.....

My dd gave me her iPhone 4 when she got her upgrade, and a quick 5 minute lesson!
Then my son gave me a quick 5 minute lesson!
Then my 13 yr dgd gave me a quick 5 minute lesson!

Ask me anything about an iPhone

My supposed "smart phone" seems to be incapable of getting a signal unless I walk half way up the damn road, will often show 3 bars of signal, but then display a message saying "mobile network not available" can take 2 days (yes, 2 days) before it tells me that I have a voice mail, often the only way I can get it to work is to turn the bugger off then on again, and then had the bloody cheek to get a text informing me that I'm now on that thing that is the latest bloody thing that only Orange and the other one is on, BUT I STILL CAN'T GET A SODDING SIGNAL MOST OF THE TIME!

Yours, totally pissed off, disillusioned, rapidly becoming technophobic, utterly annoyed, distinctly unimpressed, losing the will to live when trying to deal with Orange via their website, please do NOT send me an email inviting me to call you on a mobile number, which I CANNOT DO from my mobile, because there is no effing signal, and I'm buggered if I'm going to call you from my landline at those rates

Of Devon.

Virginmobile have just pulled the plug on my Blackberry because DH's bank account, from which they were paid for by direct debit, has been closed, and Virgin were not sufficiently high up on my list of "must contacts" to have been notified yet. So I am back to my nokia 3210!!! What a relief!!! No more tiny buttons I can't see. No more alerts every time I get a blasted junk email at 2:37 am. It may be quite a while before I sort out the Blackberry.........

You know what is the matter with manuals? They are written by people who already KNOW how the thing works!

I think that things should be so intuitive that you shouldn't need a manual

Not just me then!!!!!

I thought I was quite good with technology - until I got a smartphone. When I go to visit DS1, I have to get his advice on what apps I should and should not be using. Some of the things he recommends are a step too far for me. Even his brother has to get his advice!

I love mine but I know my limitations and don't use any apps unless I know what I'm doing I am slowly getting there and have plenty of young people who will show me how if needs be. I've never used the manual as I find they just confuse me

I've realised why I'm struggling with the new computer system at work; it's because it's very visual and colour rather than word based. Not having an iphone or ipad [or whatever they're called] the format confuses me.

Part of my problem is that I cannot get a mobile connection at home. This means my mobile llives in the car on acar charger for use away from home. If it was indoors and being used I would have grappled with its intricacies by now. I have no problem mastering my computer.

What network are you on Flickety? I'm on Vodafone and have the same problem at home but I now have a Sure Signal box which boosts the mobile signal so I now have a full 4 bar signal at home. I'm sure that other networks must have a similar gadget

I am BT. I will follow up your suggestion. Our problem is we have a stonking great down rising behind the house and my problem is fairly general in the village with all mobile phone cpmpanies

No mobile phone reception here either, and not likely that there will ever be because of the terrain.

Delivery vans have great fun - not only does the postcode take them to the wrong house, but they cannot get us on the mobile!

We have useless mobile signal and sometimes have to go and stand at the bottom of the drive or on the top patio to get anything at all. It does seem better on the android than on an ordinary mobile but sometimes I can be half way out of the village when I get a flurry of texts and nearly drive off the road with shock.

I have this image of you all hanging out of an upstaire window by your toenails pointing your mobiles towards the moon to get a signal It can get a bit like that around us wth Orange I do wonder why we bother