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Be gentle with me.

A smartphone. An earlier iPhone. I've barely looked at it so far. But they set it all up at the Apple store. I have much to learn! It is a Xmas present-in-advance from my wife.

I'm NOT giving up my flip phone. It's on an incredibly cheap pay-as-you-go plan that's no longer offered. I guess I pay about $100 a year for the service; with the iPhone I will use it less often, but there's no minimum required. Even the carrier said I shouldn't get rid of it.

Should be useful in rough neighborhoods. Whip out that flip phone; nobody will want to steal it!

I may be asking you folks for phone advice soon...


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Congrats! Smiler

Interestingly enough, I broke my flip phone, and decided to replace it with the flip phone I broke, a $20 Alcatel. It might not be some people's cup of tea, but I'm enjoying it.
 
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It's a tool. Get the tool that does what you need done.


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The way to learn what it does is to play with it. Punch all the buttons and see what they do.

I think you’ll really like it.


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My fave flip phone ...

 
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RealPlayer,
Your Luddite card is hereby revoked.


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RealPlayer,
Your Luddite card is hereby revoked.

Hey, wait a minute. I still have an acoustic piano, 4 kerosene lamps and a manual coffee grinder!!


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The first thing to learn is the the four “swipes”. Up from center of screen, down from center, up from bottom of screen, down from top of screen. You’ll uncover a lot of features you don’t see otherwise.

One of the most useful of these is the flashlight. I use it pretty much every day.


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And the camera - take a picture every day, you may be surprised by what you find!


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Originally posted by CHAS:
RealPlayer,
Your Luddite card is hereby revoked.

Hey, wait a minute. I still have an acoustic piano, 4 kerosene lamps and a manual coffee grinder!!


Ok, will refer this to the committee.


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Chas - Big Grin


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The swiping techniques are a bit different on this model, I think.

So, my daughter was over yesterday and "taught" us how to use the phone with blindingly fast swipes and taps. That would be like me "teaching" my 10 y.o. grandson to play a Bach prelude by zipping through it at full speed from beginning to end.

Please SLOW DOWN so we can register what you're doing!


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The swiping techniques are a bit different on this model, I think.


What model is it?


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Maybe they mean the swiping form of typing. My 8 has that feature, but I haven't learned that yet.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/...wipe-type-in-ios-13/


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The phone I chose this last time (google
Pixel 2) was for its camera. It’s amazing, and I hardly use it for anything else. I’m getting good enough reference photos use for paintings on it, I and the photos to my iPad, so my old eyes can see them larger.


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