Smartphone for elder

jayme1

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Why don't you just admit that you were wrong, instead of posting erroneous information without checking beforehand and now insist on banging on about your hurt feelings.
I'll tell you if you are not man enough to admit it. You were wrong.

oh look more condescending twaddle, you really need to get over yourself.

No matter how cheap you can make a Blackberry I would still never recommend the OP get one over any another phone, but whatever, you can think whatever you want, I'm not your keeper.

NiftyDigits

jayme1 wrote: »

oh look more condescending twaddle, you really need to get over yourself.

No matter how cheap you can make a Blackberry I would still never recommend the OP get one over any another phone, but whatever, you can think whatever you want, I'm not your keeper.

Not a problem. Nothing wrong with the suggesting of alternatives. But suggesting that your option was cheaper than the Blackberry option was just completely ridiculous.
Your attempt to obfuscate when this was pointed out to you is not at all helpful to the OP.

By all means, make a suggestion, but if it is completely ridiculous, don't be surprised if someone points it out to you.

Anyway, thank you for making it clear that it was your irrational aversion to Blackberry that lead to your suggestion that the OP should make his Grandmother pay 300% more per month for the service that she requires.
Do you work for a high street retailer?

jayme1

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Not a problem. Nothing wrong with the suggesting of alternatives. But suggesting that your option was cheaper than the Blackberry option was just completely ridiculous.
Your attempt to obfuscate when this was pointed out to you is not at all helpful to the OP.

By all means, make a suggestion, but if it is completely ridiculous, don't be surprised if someone points it out to you.

Anyway, thank you for making it clear that it was your irrational aversion to Blackberry that lead to your suggestion that the OP should make his Grandmother pay 300% more per month for the service that she requires.
Do you work for a high street retailer?

I have no problem with being corrected but I expect to be corrected in a courteous adult manner without the attitude.

No-one insulted you but you still felt it necessary to insult others in the thread with "you can't read" jibes, if you think that is acceptable behaviour then, well...

I see now you are trying to spin it that I somehow have an "irrational aversion" to Blackberrys and that's why I wouldn't recommend it to the OP. :rotfl:

oh and trying to insult me personally, how very big and manly of you.

Idiophreak

http://xkcd.com/386/

jayme1

OK I'll be the bigger person,
we have both made mistakes but this petty argument is not helpful to the OP at all

Yes I was wrong about the per month cost of running a Blackberry which is surprisingly cheap, but it doesn't include the cost of buying the handset.

I still feel the 'tap what you want' approach of a Windows Phone may suit her better than a Blackberry, and if Blackberry was to go belly up sometime in the future you wouldn't be left without the email.

Here is one option for the OP to consider:
You can buy the Lumia 610 on Virgin Mobile for £99 (from CPW) it comes with 1GB of data a month for 12 months for free,
after which you can replace the sim with a T-Mobile sim (usually without unlocking the handset as VM is an MVNO on T-Mobile/EE) and pay £20 for 6 months of data (with the Internet Booster) therefore £40 a year thereafter.
1GB a month just for email is a lot I doubt very much she would come near to that limit, if she does then she is sending enough email to fill a Gmail account every 10 months.

Perhaps if the OP tells us what email service his grandmother uses that may dictate what phone to buy, as some email services you may only be able to get push on a Blackberry because Blackberrys servers collect the email for you.

NiftyDigits

jayme1 wrote: »

OK I'll be the bigger person,
we have both made mistakes but this petty argument is not helpful to the OP at all

Yes I was wrong about the per month cost of running a Blackberry which is surprisingly cheap, but it doesn't include the cost of buying the handset.

I still feel the 'tap what you want' approach of a Windows Phone may suit her better than a Blackberry, and if Blackberry was to go belly up sometime in the future you wouldn't be left without the email.

Here is one option for the OP to consider:
You can buy the Lumia 610 on Virgin Mobile for £99 (from CPW) it comes with 1GB of data a month for 12 months for free,
after which you can replace the sim with a T-Mobile sim (usually without unlocking the handset as VM is an MVNO on T-Mobile/EE) and pay £20 for 6 months of data (with the Internet Booster) therefore £40 a year thereafter.
1GB a month just for email is a lot I doubt very much she would come near to that limit, if she does then she is sending enough email to fill a Gmail account every 10 months.

Perhaps if the OP tells us what email service his grandmother uses that may dictate what phone to buy, as some email services you may only be able to get push on a Blackberry because Blackberrys servers collect the email for you.

There is no email that would be a problem with Blackberry and Blackberry is not going to go 'belly up' within the lifetime of any current phone.

For balance, I have provided a link to the Nokia that you described, though it doesn't appear to excite the members of HotUkDeals.

Though at that price it is certainly worth investigating. Personally I hate trying to type on a small touchscreen, but I wouldn't try to discourage someone from trying it out for themselves.

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Because Blackberry will never go bust...



It'd be nice if the OP came back to this thread

I still try to imagine my granny in her 80s trying to use the tiny buttons on a Blackberry keypad and laugh

NiftyDigits

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Because Blackberry will never go bust...



It'd be nice if the OP came back to this thread

I still try to imagine my granny in her 80s trying to use the tiny buttons on a Blackberry keypad and laugh

That's your Granny. Not all grannies are the same.
Nevertheless, I did mention in my very first post that the small buttons may be a problem.

Looking at your graph, it looks as if Microsoft on the way out too.

Again, it really helps if one can read and comprehend.

Silk

My Mother is 88 and on her 2nd smartphone.

She prefers a touch pad to a button keypad and prefers to use a stylus (or pokey stick as she calls it) due to her nails.

Mainly uses it for calls and text although has used email but it was a bit of a 5 minute wonder.

Her eyesight is no problem, better than mine in fact, and prefers a small phone that fit's in a clutch bag that she usualy carries unless out shopping.

[Deleted User]

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Looking at your graph, it looks as if Microsoft on the way out too.

Again, it really helps if one can read and comprehend.

That might be the case if Microsoft made something other than phones, which they obviously do.

RIM is doomed. Everyone knows it. They'll end up just like Nokia - down the pan due to a lack of innovation. There really is only a niche requirement for physical keys on smartphones now

At least Nokia make quality hardware so they're floating due to their partnership with Microsoft