[AT] OT - Refurbished computers - now phones

[Mike M]

It is funny, it's all what you get used to I guess. I can figure it out, 
I'm just more comfortable with the phone I've been using for a few years 
now. I remember a time where I could go to anyone's house and know how 
to use their phone; pick up the receiver and punch in or dial the 
numbers on a rotary. Seems we used to pay about $5.00 per month for a 
private line. Now my wife and I spend $110 a month for a 2 phones that I 
don't even know how to take full advantage of.  An old farmer friend 
just down the road refuses to change from his land line. He has a rotary 
phone that is probably 40+ years old, and no answering machine. He says 
if you need to get a hold of him try the phone, if no answer, find his 
truck.

Mike M


On 12/30/2016 4:26 PM, Mogrits wrote:

> That';s pretty funny. I've used a Samsung for years (now an S7), and I
> couldn't figure out how to place a phone call on my friends iPhone.
>
> Warren
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 9:39 PM, Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> We just switched from the iPhone 5c to the Samsung Galaxy S7, it took me
>> a couple of weeks and I switched back, I hate it. It almost gives you
>> too much control, and I was used to how my iPhone worked despite my
>> distaste for Apple.
>>
>> Mike M
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/29/2016 7:50 PM, Spencer Yost wrote:
>>> Not to mention voice-to-text.  Makes creating  email messages to our
>> list easy.   Just make sure you edit. (-;
>>> Being a software engineer and having to create software that runs on
>> smaller and smaller devices I don't have a choice but love them or retire.
>> But it came natural.   I find them handy, well designed and saves me from
>> being tethered to a hunk of metal and mini tv screens.  However, i don't
>> need reading glasses and I have noticed in similar aged peers that how much
>> you like smart phones seems to depend on how much you need reading glasses.
>>>
>>> Spencer Yost
>>>
>>>> On Dec 29, 2016, at 7:35 PM, John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Not a smartphone junkie--BUT--it comes in handy when at the farm shop
>>>> (no internet) and I need to pull up a parts breakdown, check parts
>>>> prices or availability, look up phone numbers to retailers, etc.  And
>>>> the camera is great to document whatever, like how something bolts
>>>> together that I may be a while before reassembling.
>>>>
>>>> John Hall
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 12/29/2016 7:08 PM, toma at risingnet.net wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I do everything on this Asus laptop that is just 6 years old. I don't
>>>>>> have a smart phone yet but am going to
>>>>>> be forced into it by July as Sasktel drops support for the old flip
>>>>>> phone I have been using for 9 years. I never
>>>>>> cared for the idea of viewing everything on those little I phone
>> screens
>>>>>> but people seem to to do it.
>>>>>> I did recently buy a Samsung tablet with a pretty big screen, about
>> half
>>>>>> the size of the laptop. I think I could
>>>>>> live with that but so far I have no internet connection for it. I
>> mainly
>>>>>> bought the tablet to use with the drone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ralph in Sask.
>>>>>>
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