It just occurred to me how many more may be using mostly a phone (handheld device) for internet. I'm thinking there may be more using phones these days. What do you mostly use?
Why?, might be interesting too
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It just occurred to me how many more may be using mostly a phone (handheld device) for internet. I'm thinking there may be more using phones these days. What do you mostly use?
Why?, might be interesting too
I don't think my phone can even connect to the internet!
I use a laptop for the internet and a phone when I'm away from home. But I don't like the phone because entering a message is slow--big fingers and all. And its way harder to look at pictures and the like. I'm always enlarging and scrolling around with the smaller screen.
My boy tells me I should be using my phone more for internet but I notice he doesn't send a heck of a lot of emails...
Jon.
Use a phone for Internet?
phone/ handheld device (i typed that in there somewhere)
use the computer for the longer more detailed things but phone for most everyday apps like clist ebay email text skype for seeing things before offering a price and the biggest is using it to research anything I may be breaking down or buying at a auction even got a scanner and card reader so if there buying from me they can use a card or if i am buying from them i can give options like direct load to paypal or bank account. my favorite new option is gift cards I only can do walmart target and bestbuy right now since i am a small fish but i get a 8% discount by doing so. its kinda like the going to the store but about 3-5min longer I swipe the card and it takes the money from a account I have set up which is so you don't scam them by getting now and not paying later. it loads and activates the card with the amount near the next $5inc. so I offer an extra 3% to my sellers for this option and I make the extra since it cost me nothing. credit cards cost me 2.8% flat rate per transaction with no monthly fees and such so it offsets this and still comes out with a little bit more and happy people is the best thing.
This might be an age related question
I use the Computer for 99% and the phone when I have to
I am the Fat White guy over 55 with fat fingers
All my helpers are in the 21 to 25 range and they are the opposite of me
The younger crowd seems to use the Phone for 99% and the Computer only when they have to
If my hands big enough to palm a desktop, does that make it handheld? I don't actually own a desktop that works. I've got a smartphone hence my inability to post pictures and thank people
Because of the stroke and what it did to my reading ability, I can not follow that post at all.
It is getting better for me, but for the time being, I have to skip over long not broken up posts.
my phone still plugs into the wall:cool: cells do not work very well in this area and are highly unreliable at best.
I use my Iphone when I'm out and about, My Ipad mini at the house if I'm just reading or surfing and my laptop for paper work and video editing.
In case anyone cares, I will not attempt to read for meaning any incomprehensible post. Making them will be a waste of your time. I'm not referring to spelling or minor errors.
I use anything and everything, tower in office, laptop in shop, note book in bedroom & traveling and phone on me or within reach 24/7. I hate the phone for internet, use it when I get text message "look at your e-mail!"). We have communication "stupid", when I was a kid in rural Arkansas, we had one phone. That line was shared with five other families, a "PARTY LINE", this makes me think, Really do I need this?
I use my iphone 5 only for internet. Everything else I use screws up. Lol.
Age, and country. I truly believe most developing and third world countries use (for personal/home/ even home office type stuff) handhelds almost entirelyQuote:
Originally Posted by JohnC4X4
Hoping you'll continue steadily improving parrotQuote:
Originally Posted by parrothead
A lot of people I know use their phones/tablets the majority of time for internet use. As for me, I would prefer to be at my desktop with two monitors...where productivity is optimal. My cell phone has it's uses, though. If I'm not at the warehouse, I can send/check email, etc.
On a similar note -
I ran across an app the other day for Android that lets your phone tether to your laptop or desktop (or tablet for that matter). This is even if your provider blocks that (or charges extra). Foxfi is the app. I only downloaded the test trial, and it worked on my laptop through a Samsung Galaxy S2. This could replace your internet provider, or just provide internet access while you are mobile. I've found times where I wished I had a laptop and printer in my truck with access to my office network.
They don't here either NH, but it has improved somewhat in the 6 or 7 years since I've moved back. At first I let the cell go due to that, and was stuck using phone and computer both on one(totally outdated/delapidated/shredded/plowed/bulldozed/and brush hogged) land lineQuote:
Originally Posted by NHscrapman
We moved back here in the 70s and had an 8 party line, you've got to know your own "ring", then they "upgraded" to a 4 party per line, it was in the 80s before we got single party linesQuote:
Originally Posted by bigburtchino
Nothing like needing to make a call, and some "neighbors" phone, 5 miles away, is off the hook, and all you can hear is their kids running around yelling and such
Internet - ? Oh yea, that's the thing Al Gore invented when he discovered global warming.
Phone/iPad for internet. Laptop only for documents and to upload pictures from my DSLR. Used the laptop today and it actually had a layer of dust on it.
internet- the hole you swim through to avoid those hooks ; ) haha sorry Patriot, I had to come up with something so I made a vain attempt at a "definitions" post : )Quote:
Originally Posted by Patriot76
I actually believe my el-cheapo dumbphone has some connection capabilities, I've never looked into using it for that though
I refuse to upgrade to iPhone because of price. Wife said if I buy her new iPhone, I can have her old 4s. Gee whiz, really! I bought her an iPad about three years ago. Which I mainly use for my business. So, her next birthday I going to get her a mini iPad than I can used the old iPad without constant ridicule.
Now I know what you are all thinking. Just buy an iPad for yourself and be done with it. If you are thinking that, than you are not married. If you are thinking that just buy her an iPad and one for self, you haven't been married long enough. Therefore I am sticking to my old flip phone.
I HATE PHONES! Hate typing bout as much! Having said that for you edification, have had an iphone for years. On the plus side, when printing customers send jobs, I can review them while I am fishing and send the order in-between baiting. When the shop asks where I am... I just say that I am out...doing a little banking :cool:
I'm about as old school as you can get. I do have a cell phone though, but only use it for phone calls. For the internet, I use an old HP desktop complete with dial-up!
I'm surprised at all this actually. It seems the computers or mostly computers, are far ahead of the phones or mostly phones.
I really didn't expect such an outstanding difference
but then, a lot of us get our computers for free hahaha ; )
Bear....I use a desktop for internet mostly because I can type just fine but I'm textologically disadvantaged. I have farmer fingers that just don't do well with those tiny buttons (or touch keypads). I've told friends that I wanted a rotary cell phone and that they can text me anything they want as long as it ends in a yes or no question. I did get a Galaxy S4 recently when I lost my flip phone, so I now can use "swipe" for texting and it's better.
I go online on the phone only when I'm not at home, but given the choice, it's desktop by leaps and bounds. I find it hard to read that tiny screen and can NEVER find reading glasses when I need 'em.
BTW, we have the same phone line you've got with most of the bulldozing, bushhogging, etc done by yours truly. :(
I'm on dial up too Ohio, with a delapidated old phone line. Haha Peanut, has yours got electric fence on it? : D (pop....pop....pop...)
The computer/mostly computer now stands at exactly 84% (not counting the = phone/computer users)
I get really grumpy without an actual keyboard... and I'm only 33
maybe they should make phones with a keyboard connector ; )Quote:
Originally Posted by ScrappinRed
Bear....I forgot about that electric fence pop. We don't currently have that feature, but it's only because my brother moved his cows to a wheat field another 1/2 mile away. When they come back, so will that wonderful popping noise.
I found out last summer that some houses in our town are still on party line. I was working on a clean out of a house that had been vacant for about 8 years. A buddy and I were bagging some clothes out of the bedroom closet and the phone rang!! That just about scared us silly and we both jumped, then laughed about it. It was a rotary phone with a loud bell. We found out that it was on party line and rang once any time someone else used the line.
I hope you grabbed that phone! I had one for years in Tennessee. Put a little phone shelf by the door on the front porch and wired that old phone out to it. I could hear that thing ringing if working down at the barn, or all the way down to the mailbox. Went and left it there when I moved
My buddy got that one, but I do have an old rotary hooked up at home. My wife was happy I had it when our power went out week before last in the freezing rain storm. Lots of people don't know that the wired phones will work when the power is out and cordless are shut down. Yes, cell phones work too, but wait long enough and the battery will die.
Call your old number and ask whoever answers to mail your phone to you. They might want to get rid of it.
unfortunately the three towers around us cannot reach into all the valleys around here and national forests/timber land owners prevent any new ones from being built. If you want to use your cell at my house you must go a 1/4 mile down the road to the big steel bridge. Thinking of this one day when i was in a dead zone and needed to make a call i found a large iron based rock and stood on top of it and had one bar stepped off had zero. walked all around zero bars everywhere except on the rock.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bear
I use my Desktop, laptop, and now a Kindle Fire. I use my cell sometimes, mainly to check how gold, etc is doing in prices, some online things. Hard for me to reply with my cell tho, cause of the small keyboard, an I Have fat fingers. I think my fire will be replacing my cell for most on the go things. Keyboard is much bigger, more viewing screen, etc.
Sirscrapalot - Waiting on some snow.
desktop when im upstairs laptop when im downstairs and i try to have a laptop, charger, inverter and extra batteries with me if im gonna be working all day
I use an ipad 90% of the time! I've got one for home and one for work. I do break out the laptop when I'm in the same hotel for a week. Occasionally will use my phone.
I'm digging my kindle, which is basically a ipad. lol.
I hate Iphones personally an will never own one. I get those in quite often, an it's usually cause of a broken screen. Fix said screen, resell, profit.
You'd think for a $300 phone, the thing could hit the ground a couple times an not break the screen.
Sirscrapalot - Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen. - Morgan Freeman