Have you ever?

[Dicey]

Murdered your phone?

 

[jondear]

No but I ha

Murdered your phone?

Not intensionally !But I have put it through the Lucas!

 

[ARW]

Yes, I can’t remember why but I once threw my phone at my hedgecutter, as soon as I did it I regretted it!

 

[wanton dwarf]

Murdered your phone?

Why are "Smart Phones" so dumb ?

Was in a call with my father yesterday and no voice from his end ??? yet the mobile phone screen was blank and coudn't even tell if the call was still active.

I fail to find most of the way these phones work smart .. more like extremely awkward. I dislike using them immensely.

The lastest version doesn't even tell you how much battery is left .. have to press buttons and swipe the damn thing multiple times to eventually get a very small %age I cannot read easily. Fine if you are somewhere safe, inactive and have a magnifying glass to hand .. not work or indeed life friendly, made for those with nothing to do.

 

[ewald]

Smart phones are like most other technology - they need a bit of effort to get the best out of them (including research to buy the right one!)
If you don’t want to do this, get something more basic - I sympathise to an extent, I get increasingly impatient with instructions.

Smart phones are like any other computing device - capable, but reliant on input from the user

 

[Muddyroads]

Smart phones are like most other technology - they need a bit of effort to get the best out of them (including research to buy the right one!)
If you don’t want to do this, get something more basic - I sympathise to an extent, I get increasingly impatient with instructions.

Smart phones are like any other computing device - capable, but reliant on input from the user

There is an acronym being used by tech support people now to save offending the incompetent, PICNIC
Problem In Chair Not In Computer

 

[yellow belly]

when cars were first available some users wonderd why when you shouted wo it did not stop

with everything new you do have to learn and then remember how it works

 

[DrWazzock]

In the days when people smoked pipes, beet deliveries for the week were arranged on Sunday evening on the landline.
Now you can be pulling your drawers up at the hospital and he’ll tell you he is 10 minutes away, and can you put one on?

 

[organicguy]

In the days when people smoked pipes, beet deliveries for the week were arranged on Sunday evening on the landline.
Now you can be pulling your drawers up at the hospital and he’ll tell you he is 10 minutes away, and can you put one on?

If you refused to load if they did not give decent notice , people would soon learn.

 

[Kidds]

Several times but admittedly not recently.
A satnav got evicted from a moving car once too after repeatedly circling Kidderminster in the early hours. Just said sod it, I will find my own way home.

 

[wanton dwarf]

There is an acronym being used by tech support people now to save offending the incompetent, PICNIC
Problem In Chair Not In Computer

Hmm tech support .. full of "Capable People". It's not as if those not able or incompetant in IT are pushed into Tech Support ....

 

[wanton dwarf]

Several times but admittedly not recently.
A satnav got evicted from a moving car once too after repeatedly circling Kidderminster in the early hours. Just said sod it, I will find my own way home.

Satnavs are great, especially if there are road works and everyone has been sent down the same route.

Have had the best of times with the old man on a map and taking the scenic route TBH, has had a few heated moments but they were fun too !

 

[DrWazzock]

I think it all depends on whether the overhead in terms of learning and ongoing maintenance is worth the alleged benefits.
I’m really not convinced.
I have wasted hundreds of hours on this damn thing typing drivel.
There have been a few instances where information gleaned has been useful to the business but often I’d be better just putting it down and “getting on”, like now, doing the VAT.
I sometimes use the calculator utility, but I have never found an app than can replace a few scratchings on the back of a fag packet or a couple of tomato canes.

 

[Stuart J]

Why are "Smart Phones" so dumb ?

Was in a call with my father yesterday and no voice from his end ??? yet the mobile phone screen was blank and coudn't even tell if the call was still active.

I fail to find most of the way these phones work smart .. more like extremely awkward. I dislike using them immensely.

The lastest version doesn't even tell you how much battery is left .. have to press buttons and swipe the damn thing multiple times to eventually get a very small %age I cannot read easily. Fine if you are somewhere safe, inactive and have a magnifying glass to hand .. not work or indeed life friendly, made for those with nothing to do.

I suggest reading the instruction manual. And getting an eye test.
Not necessarily in that order.

 

[Goweresque]

I baled up my phone once. Had it in my shirt pocket (which I knew would end up with it falling out, but still did it anyway ), got out to check a swath and of course as I bent over it fell out. Realised it was no longer in my pocket after I'd baled a few more rows, looked on the ground, couldn't find it, cursed long and loud, then had the brainwave of getting the other chap in the field to ring my number while I wandered around, and lo and behold ringing could be heard from inside one of the bales. Cue much rejoicing. Sadly it was only a reprieve for that phone, the dog chewed it to death not long after

 

[ewald]

Always leave the ringtone on when at work - I have found a dropped phone several times in similar circumstances by calling it from another phone

 

[Nearly]

abh but not murder.

 

[GeorgeK]

I endured a particularly hateful phone for years. When I eventually got a replacement I taped the thing to a bird scaring rocket. It made a lot of smoke but didn't manage to get airborne then went bang. Wasn't much left of the phone

 

[Red Fred]

I found one of my old Nokias in a rabbit hole when I was out metal detecting. I'd like to say the battery was still charged and it was ringing, but that wouldn't strictly be true. It looked perfectly good after years underground, though.

 

[wanton dwarf]

I suggest reading the instruction manual. And getting an eye test.
Not necessarily in that order.

Your phone must be very old if it has instructions .. not seen any of those for decades.