Advice Wanted...Please?
Nov. 11th, 2012 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatYou helped a great deal on the humidifier problem...so wondering if you can help with the smartphones?
I need to upgrade to a smartphone. Feel like the last person on the planet with an old cell phone. Which can't text. Been trying to do this for about a month now. But each time I walk into T-Mobile or any store for that matter, I'm overwhelmed with options.
No idea which one to pick.
My needs are very simple:
1.texting, (probably will do this more than make actual phone calls - people text don't call now.)
2.phone calls,
3. apps for airlines
4. Personal GPS - navigational aid (tells where closest subways are and how to get around)
5. internet access. Don't need it for music (have ipod touch for that). Won't use it to read - already struggling with small print as it is. Probably will use for Facebook. Not for livejournal. And do not envision watching tv or movies on a tiny screen.
I currently have a T-Mobile Nokia Classic flip-phone that is over three years old. Last one I got was in 2008. So no longer on contract. But changing services could be dicey or difficult. Might be easier to stick with T-Mobile even if their in-store service is horrible.
Can you help? Please see poll below of all the types of phones that I know of:
[Poll #1878263]
I need to upgrade to a smartphone. Feel like the last person on the planet with an old cell phone. Which can't text. Been trying to do this for about a month now. But each time I walk into T-Mobile or any store for that matter, I'm overwhelmed with options.
No idea which one to pick.
My needs are very simple:
1.texting, (probably will do this more than make actual phone calls - people text don't call now.)
2.phone calls,
3. apps for airlines
4. Personal GPS - navigational aid (tells where closest subways are and how to get around)
5. internet access. Don't need it for music (have ipod touch for that). Won't use it to read - already struggling with small print as it is. Probably will use for Facebook. Not for livejournal. And do not envision watching tv or movies on a tiny screen.
I currently have a T-Mobile Nokia Classic flip-phone that is over three years old. Last one I got was in 2008. So no longer on contract. But changing services could be dicey or difficult. Might be easier to stick with T-Mobile even if their in-store service is horrible.
Can you help? Please see poll below of all the types of phones that I know of:
[Poll #1878263]
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Date: 2012-11-12 03:17 am (UTC)I always thought that the choice for a smart phone was between an iPhone and a Blackberry, but you don't even list the latter... are they no longer a thing? Stephen Fry wrote quite a bit on the topic a few years ago (this is one article, but really he wrote a whole series of articles): http://www.stephenfry.com/2009/06/19/iphone-therefore-i-am-stephen-reviews-apples-iphone-3gs/
personally I find it difficult to even read these articles without glazing over (it is funny: I adore computers, and I want an iPad, but just the thought of a cellphone weirds me out).