Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

LydiaJ

lemonjelly wrote: »

How easy is it to use NDG? I'm not a luddite, but I'm not great with technology.

Is itunes unavoidable?
Do you have to copy your own cd's via itunes?

My ipod is the only Apple thing I have too. I didn't get on with the iphone at all and now have an android (although not entirely happy with that either) but I love my ipod and wouldn't change it.

Yes, itunes is unavoidable, but I wouldn't want to avoid it. It makes managing the ipod effortless, and it syncs buglessly. How would you copy your cds to your mp3 player without going through your computer? Why not use itunes?

Now all I want to do is find a phone that will do the following (in addition to making calls and sending texts, natch):
* Sync buglessly and effortlessly with outlook calendar, contacts, tasks and notes, retaining the category information [problem with android (buggy) and with iphone (omits categories)]
* Support timed profiles, so I can put it on silent at the beginning of the school day and it will go back to normal at 5.30 without my having to remember to switch it [problem with iphone (silent is a hard switch)]
* Camera with flash
* Google maps (or similar) with thingy to tell me where I am

Anyone tried any of the windows phones? I'm thinking something microsoft-related might do a better job of talking to outlook.

sss555s

Have you checked out the Nokia Lumia 800?

http://www.nokia.co.uk/gb-en/products/phone/lumia800/use/

neverdespairgirl

lemonjelly wrote: »

How easy is it to use NDG? I'm not a luddite, but I'm not great with technology.

Is itunes unavoidable?
Do you have to copy your own cd's via itunes?

It's very easy indeed to use.

I use itunes, because I find it works well, so I can't answer that, sorry.

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

Dave, I hope you weren't too badly hurt?

I wasn't hurt, but it was terminal for the car, and I used up a decade's quota of luck. :A

It was a misunderstanding. My DW was yelling down the phone that she was wet & freezing in an empty market, so would I hurry up & get her out of there, "Now!" She thought I was half a mile away at home with the van, but Dad had had a crisis with the TV, washing machine, or whatever, so I was ten miles distant for the second time that day.

Anyway, I did as I was told. I hurried.......:o

lemonjelly

sss555s wrote: »

Have you checked out the Nokia Lumia 800?

http://www.nokia.co.uk/gb-en/products/phone/lumia800/use/

I've heard a fair bit of happiness expressed by owners of HTC phones too.

That mp3 player you posted up is quite tastey ssss's:T

Davesnave

silvercar wrote: »

The sad thing is that the elderly take a while to adjust to being in a home, the more capable they are when they make the move the happier they are when they are there. This does mean pushing them to agree to go in the first place.

The thing to realise is that there are many kinds of care homes, and finding the right one isn't just about money.

Where Dad ended up was more luxurious than most places I saw, but it was a private home run by a Christian family who were motivated by faith, not profit. It cost the same as the local authority one, where individual rooms were about 9' square, you couldn't have your own furniture and the corridors stank of wee.

It was one of two homes I found which broke the mould. The other was a little more spartan, but again, the owners did the job because they enjoyed it. They believed passionately in keeping the elderly folk active, so it was more or less compulsory for everyone to go on an outing in the minibus each week. I asked what happened if a person felt a bit frail. "Oh, we still take them. Even if they just sit in the bus, it's better than lolling in front of the telly all afternoon!"

I felt the latter place was just a bit too energetic for Dad, but if he'd gone there three years earlier....

The more I looked, the easier it was to weigh places up. Some were superficially 'nice,' but they had no soul. Others you could tell were a waste of time inside three minutes.

I made one silly mistake, restricting the search to locations Dad knew, so I probably missed good homes. Of course, once he was in there, he could have been anywhere, although he was just 5 miles from 'home.'

LydiaJ

sss555s wrote: »

Have you checked out the Nokia Lumia 800?

http://www.nokia.co.uk/gb-en/products/phone/lumia800/use/

Thanks for the suggestion. Just had a look at it. The promotional info is useless - doesn't give me the specifics I'm looking for at all. I've tracked down its user guide, and it's not looking promising, I'm afraid. It doesn't seem to sync with Outlook at all, which would be worse than what I've got.

michaels

I'm not sure you should still be using outlook with Android - surely the point is that you work with gmail and have everything online?

DD1 is going to learn email at school, I'm thinking I am going to have to set up an email client like outlook on a PC so she can see how that quaint old technology works as I suspect that is what she will be shown at school. My email has been in the cloud for the last 7 years.

sss555s

LydiaJ wrote: »

Thanks for the suggestion. Just had a look at it. The promotional info is useless - doesn't give me the specifics I'm looking for at all. I've tracked down its user guide, and it's not looking promising, I'm afraid. It doesn't seem to sync with Outlook at all, which would be worse than what I've got.

This may help Lydia ...


http://www.nokia.co.uk/gb-en/support/product/lumia800/faq/?qt=outlook&action=productFAQSearch

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

I'm not sure you should still be using outlook with Android - surely the point is that you work with gmail and have everything online?

DD1 is going to learn email at school, I'm thinking I am going to have to set up an email client like outlook on a PC so she can see how that quaint old technology works as I suspect that is what she will be shown at school. My email has been in the cloud for the last 7 years.

If gmail supported categories I might consider switching. As it is, no way. If I can't flag things according to whether they need babysitters booking or not, the calendar's useless to me. I have enough trouble managing my life as things are, without removing one of the tools that gives me a fighting chance of keeping on top of things.