Author Topic: Well, I've gone and bought a smart phone.. (Read 10670 times)

Conrad · « **Reply #20 on:** August 20, 2014, 05:37:25 AM »

Everyone washes your phone?

VirginiaJim · « **Reply #21 on:** August 20, 2014, 05:40:33 AM »

Slowly, ever so slowly....I turn.

Conrad · « **Reply #22 on:** August 20, 2014, 05:42:39 AM »

While I run away...

VirginiaJim · « **Reply #23 on:** August 20, 2014, 05:45:57 AM »

As you hear the swoosh of a sword slicing through the air...

gPink · « **Reply #24 on:** August 20, 2014, 06:17:36 AM »

They have an app for that....

http://youtu.be/PNx9kl6svHk

Rhino · « **Reply #25 on:** August 20, 2014, 06:41:56 AM »

New business opportunity, drive thru phone wash.

VirginiaJim · « **Reply #26 on:** August 20, 2014, 06:54:11 AM »

And if I drive thru with the bike I kill three birds (no birds were actually harmed in this sentence) with one stone.

jimmymac · « **Reply #27 on:** August 20, 2014, 07:04:56 AM »

You accually use the birds to kill the pigs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiHfGAstx5g

Awaz · « **Reply #28 on:** August 20, 2014, 07:07:27 AM »

My wife was not warm to the idea of using smartphones at first. Thought it was too cumbersome. But when she started using her S1 (this was like 4 years ago), she became a convert. She said it was the easiest phone to use! She now uses a Nokia Lumia. Give it a shot, I am sure you will never miss that dumb phone of yours.

Rhino · « **Reply #29 on:** August 20, 2014, 07:38:25 AM »

Ok, I am going to try to be helpful instead of a twit this time.

Apps I use the most besides email, text and camera:

Google maps (obvious)
Brightest Flashlight (amazing how handy that is, I always have a flashlight in my pocket now)
UPM (stores all my account and password info in an encrypted vault, only have to remember one password)
ColorNote (when you don't have a pen and paper, use keyboard or voice to make a note)
OI Shopping (shopping list, again voice or keyboard when I find I need something. Week later I am in Home Depot and check it)
Chromcast (Along with $35 dongle, displays youtube, Netflix, HBO Go on your big screen)
Youtube (obvious)
Netflix (I don't watch live TV at all anymore, no commercials)
HBO GO (my daughter lets me use her HBO login)
MyFlightbook (log book for pilots)
United Airlines (check flight status etc.)
Google Sky (find or identify any object in the night sky, Conrad should like this, must have if you use a dobson telescope)

Don't discount the use of texting. I'm currently working and living in TX but my entire extended family is still in Colorado. I get pictures of the grand kids and messages everyday. I'll get a text and or a picture from my regular Saturday morning riding buddies. Makes me feel like I'm still part of the group. I'll send simple message like "miss you" or picture of something funny or interesting to my wife, kids and grand kids several times a day. The kind of stuff you wouldn't want to make a call about but it keeps me connected at a very close and personal level. Just saying.

jettawreck · « **Reply #30 on:** August 20, 2014, 07:58:52 AM »

I use my weather/radar apps the most, other than checking/deleting emails. The weather changes so much up here, especially in the winter, that it's a great thing to have.
Google map is great. You can always figure out where you are and/or where you need to get to. Works really good for hunting, etc.
I Need to add the flash lite app. The old phone came with it installed, the current one didn't. I miss it, but then forget....

Why doesn't my post count ever change??

Rhino · « **Reply #31 on:** August 20, 2014, 08:29:00 AM »

Oh yea, I forgot about Weather Bug. Use that all the time. The real time weather radar is a must for us motorcyclists.

Post count doesn't change for posting in "Mish mash" like this thread.

jettawreck · « **Reply #32 on:** August 20, 2014, 11:15:53 AM »

Accuweather has really good quality maps you can zoom out/in on. I use it more than Google map just because I usually have it on the homepage header.

VirginiaJim · « **Reply #33 on:** August 20, 2014, 11:37:36 AM »

Posting in the Open Forum doesn't count for post counts..

First crisis with the phone...couldn't answer a telephone call. Kept pressing the green phone button and nothin.... Had to read up on how to answer a call. You swipe the

icon, not press it. Have done a few texts so far but I really don't like it completing what I want to say as it invariably isn't. I don't see how anyone could do this in a vehicle and not kill themselves and others.