Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

Interesting program on BBC2. James May's Things You Need To....

Just did a bit about brains and how they found out that different bits did different things.

I missed most of it though, it just finished.

A side effectof CABG is that you have mini strokes during the Surgery. It is not uncommon to lose some navigational skills thereafter. I had this and in the days before sat nav would get lost on my way home from familiar places. Used to end up miles away, ringing Mr S and describing my surroundings hoping he might recognise where I was and direct me. I would lose the recall of reference points so that familiar landmarks and place names had no context. At junctions I would not know which way to turn and sign posts meant nothing.

It still happens occassionally and is not retricted to car journeys. One xmas eve a couple of years ago we had friends coming over and I popped out to walk in the woods for a few minutes in the afternoon to gather holly & ivy. I was gone for 2.5 hours as I entered the trees and immediately my navigation shut down. Few cars on our road so nothing to help me.

I was livid.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I will finally be getting a posh phone.... within 2 weeks. So ... should I get the same one Zag's got, or can the supershopper find something better?

As of today I'd be wanting to: surf t'Internet/here(?), read emails (maybe), GPS (find out if that's any good) .... and take d4mned good photos with a good optical zoom.

Oh - and barcode scanning .... not sure why I'd want it, but it sounds useful.

I am also a HEAVY user of Evernote.... it's running on my laptop every minute the laptop's on and it now contains my whole life.

I read up on it quite a bit before buying it. It's covered in many threads on the MSE forum. It's got a 5Mb camera which is better than the 2.something my old phone had. To be fair it's £100 and you can get cheaper (but I think it's a bit more future-proof than a cheaper one might be)

I think it can do GPS (that link in my earlier post should cover some of that) but I pay 25p per day i use the internet unless it's on wifi so I've been deactivating all sorts of things.

The screen's a nice size and apparently sturdy which is important when you're a careless sod like me.

Have to get my kids to show me round it.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

A side effectof CABG is that you have mini strokes during the Surgery. It is not uncommon to lose some navigational skills thereafter. I had this and in the days before sat nav would get lost on my way home from familiar places. Used to end up miles away, ringing Mr S and describing my surroundings hoping he might recognise where I was and direct me. I would lose the recall of reference points so that familiar landmarks and place names had no context. At junctions I would not know which way to turn and sign posts meant nothing.

It still happens occassionally and is not retricted to car journeys. One xmas eve a couple of years ago we had friends coming over and I popped out to walk in the woods for a few minutes in the afternoon to gather holly & ivy. I was gone for 2.5 hours as I entered the trees and immediately my navigation shut down. Few cars on our road so nothing to help me.

I was livid.

No idea what CABG means.

LOL/livid

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

I pay 25p per day i use the internet

And an amount for it being a phone? So, you buy it ... and pay a monthly phone fee .... and Internet could be a max of £7.50/month extra?

silvercar

Any suggestions for anything you've found useful?

WhatsApp

Angry birds.

Tesco clubcard

facebook

O2 priority moments/ Orange wednesday

Flixster

The weather channel

quidco

scanlife (QR code reader)

Screen muncher (takes pic of your screen)

Tubemap

PayByPhone (street parking)

Whichever train line you need

silvercar

Huawei are meant to be very good value phones at the moment, discounted to get into the market.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Huawei

Sounds like the line right before a fight sequence in a 1970s karate film.... I've absolutely no idea how you'd even pronounce that, unless I put on a daft "Monkeh" accent

chewmylegoff

zagubov wrote: »

Spirit wrote: »

We're all thinking that!;)


Anyway,finally fed up with being the thread's Fred Flintstone and splashed out on a budget, very-SME smartphone.
Uses android, it does.

Looking for advice on what are the most useful apps if anyone here uses anything similar. I've downloaded
Evernote
Dropbox
iPlayer
Librivox (audiobooks)
Grooveshark


Any suggestions for anything you've found useful? Is it worth getting kindle/ or is there any free/cheap software that lets you check MS Office documents in dropbox for example?

I'm on a dirt-cheap talkmobile PAYG and using the internet mainly via wifi.

Whatsapp - lets you send messages to other people with whatsapp for free (through wifi, uses data so costs if through 3G). Most use for sending picture messages which would normally cost 25p or whatever for free.

And...loads of pointless games!

chewmylegoff

Plus you can get apps which do VOIP calls using wifi, but you may be enough of a caveman to have a home phone still!!

michaels

You really should get a cashback sim only deal - easy to get a few hundred minutes, 500 texts and 500mb of data (enough if you don't let the kids watch tv on the go to keep them amused) can be had for effectively free per month from the likes of mobiles.co.uk (part of carphone warehouse)

PN not sur ewhich phones have a camera with an optical zoom. If this is a dealbreaker for you then a bit of rsearch will be needed.