Quote: Randa france wrote in post #15

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They contact me almost every month to try and get me to upgrade. What are they like? My monthly phone bill? About 50p.

Randa

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They really have no idea do they? £608.00 A YEAR

Ahem. We're using lovely modern technology to access this forum :)

Have you seen Randa's laptop?

Strange one Aaron, when abroad the phone should go into roaming mode (if it is switched on) and it will use the closest mobile site regardless of the provider. Some phones are known to have a poorer internal antenna and its not unusual to have to different phones using the same service provider to have different coverage at the same location.

Smartphones are data hungry as they are constantly updating the apps in the background and they will sometimes ignore a close 2G site with good coverage in preference for a poor 3G/4G site much further away. Some phones will let you switch the 3G/WDMA off to enable the 2G/GPRS to be used.

I Suppose really I should not blame the technology after all it is only an inert lump of metal and plastic.

Probably my dislike of them is more disappointment in the fact that after millions of years of evolution we can produce something as advanced as that and a huge lump of humanity can find nothing more interesting to do with this wonder of the modern age than to take a picture of their badly cooked meal that they are about to eat ............. then proceed to shove it on twitter or facebook in the vain hope that someone among the hoard of other users might be interested, and the sad part is some of them probably will be.
I often see them wandering round the supermarket muttering things like "skimmed or semi skimmed dear?" or "they haven't got that butter dear will brand xxxx do?" (sometimes not even in English)

I resist the temptation to run them over when they blindly wander out into the road peering at their gadget reading the latest tweets (mainly because I don't want to damage the car)

I try hard to ignore them when they are standing next to me chattering away ............. but not to me.

So its probably not phones I don't like it's people

Quote: Poptop320 wrote in post #20

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......when abroad the phone should go into roaming mode (if it is switched on) and it will use the closest mobile site regardless of the provider.

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Quote: Deeps wrote in post #22

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Quote: Poptop320 wrote in post #20

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......when abroad the phone should go into roaming mode (if it is switched on) and it will use the closest mobile site regardless of the provider.

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Are you sure about that?

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Quote: hob wrote in post #21

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I Suppose really I should not blame the technology after all it is only an inert lump of metal and plastic.

Probably my dislike of them is more disappointment in the fact that after millions of years of evolution we can produce something as advanced as that and a huge lump of humanity can find nothing more interesting to do with this wonder of the modern age than to take a picture of their badly cooked meal that they are about to eat ............. then proceed to shove it on twitter or facebook in the vain hope that someone among the hoard of other users might be interested, and the sad part is some of them probably will be.
I often see them wandering round the supermarket muttering things like "skimmed or semi skimmed dear?" or "they haven't got that butter dear will brand xxxx do?" (sometimes not even in English)

I resist the temptation to run them over when they blindly wander out into the road peering at their gadget reading the latest tweets (mainly because I don't want to damage the car)

I try hard to ignore them when they are standing next to me chattering away ............. but not to me.

So its probably not phones I don't like it's people

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I just love the apps. So many good ones and all of them free.
Set the TV aerial up in a jiffy in the correct direction and polaristaion, dead easy. Find the nearest Tesco extra for fuel, find a Wetherspoons pub for a cheap lunch. Find my way out of a dark forest, identify that butterfly or bird song.
Oh, and I have a really clever one, press a few numbers and I can talk to somebody remotely, amazing :)

I embrace it!😲😨 I find it hard to believe that in my lifetime we have gone from a radio which had to be fitted in a sideboard! I listened to Radio Luxembourg on a crystal set! And now I can speak to others on the far side of the planet, carry around some 35000 "tunes", check my heart rate! Count how many bubbles are contained in the average under water frat! You get my drift I'm sure, AMAZING

Received this from my Brother today.

Dear all

You may be aware I lost my phone recently – claims that it was sighted in a glass case at the Science Museum were, I felt, a tad unnecessary.

Anyway kindly text me so I can save your number etc

Now if he had an android phone linked to a google account the contacts would port over to his new phone automatically and would never be lost..

Rest assured he ain't gonna lose all his numbers again, not least after all the stick his kids (and his brother ) have given him.

To me, this facility alone is worth the £80 you need for a smart phone.

Charlie