Smart phone or basic phone?

[TheMan419]

Couldn稚 do my job without the smart phone. Being able to communicate w clients from anywhere is a must. Also gps is needed. Having all the tools in one device is nice.

 

[Creamer]

Don't think I could go back. I use my smart phone for online searches while at work when I need something, or need to learn something. I use the GPS several times a week when going a new house. I can't remember the last time I used a map to find where I wanted to go. I watch the weather and decide what I will do that day, or how long I have to work outside when a storm is coming. I send pics to clients, sometimes several a day if they are not around and I need them to make a decision on something. The flashlight is always there when I need it, and even though I have a nice LED in my truck, it's just easier to pull out my phone and use it for quick trips into attics or looking into a dark place. The calculator is used every time I figure out a bill for a client, and the calendar is how I know what day it is. There is an alarm on my phone so I don't miss appointments. The best thing about my smart phone is that I now have it all in one place instead of a dozen different things stored away in my truck.

Agree totally! Way to convenient to have everything in one device - just verified the length of a screw the other day with a rarely used app - but i could when I needed to.

I can lose one of ten devices but when I only have one to worry about I am in hog heaven. I am over five years on my Samsung Note 2 and it is going strong. Of course I do not treat them like IndustrialToys does.

 

[dragoneggs]

Agree totally! Way to convenient to have everything in one device - just verified the length of a screw the other day with a rarely used app - but i could when I needed to.

I can lose one of ten devices but when I only have one to worry about I am in hog heaven. I am over five years on my Samsung Note 2 and it is going strong. Of course I do not treat them like IndustrialToys does.

Flashlight, compass, map, calculator, unit converter, news source, alarm clock, camera, phone book, dictionary, encyclopedia, weather/radar, banking, and oh yeah TBN!

 

[NoTrespassing]

I'm curious how a "REAL" working man with working hands is supposed to operate such a fruity device. More for ET if you ask me. Just been trying to operate the fruity remote for my apple tv. Same garbage! I would prefer something like a bridge crane pendent! BIG buttons with English labels, not icons! I thought these apple devices were supposed to be intuitive. How are unknown icons intuitive?

My wife got me a smart phone about 2 months ago. I think she was embarrassed when I whipped out my 8 year old flip phone. It took some getting used to and no, it's not easy with my extra large hands. I figured out it's easier to use the voice function than to try and type on it. The voice function on this old Samsung Galaxy 5 is very impressive to me.

Kevin

 

[/pine]

Just wait...personal technology tends to leapfrog itself...for example the PDA (basically everything a laptop or desktop was (including GPS))...that would fit in your pocket and was often smaller than a new smartphone...only PDAs could not make phone calls (other than Skype etc.) so the PDA technology was leapfrogged by smartphone tech...BTW one of the stand out PDA makers (Dell) is not in the smartphone market (by brand anyway)...

At any rate...the point is what we should expect...Virtual Reality...oh yeah...but can you picture folks projecting life sized multi-dimensional displays (often mistakenly referred to as holograms) of beings interacting with each other?? (no VR gear required)...and then there is AI...that is where some of those multi dimensional displays have a mind of their own and an attitude of it's creators program agenda...

 

[Steppenwolfe]

I'm curious how a "REAL" working man with working hands is supposed to operate such a fruity device. More for ET if you ask me. Just been trying to operate the fruity remote for my apple tv. Same garbage! I would prefer something like a bridge crane pendent! BIG buttons with English labels, not icons! I thought these apple devices were supposed to be intuitive. How are unknown icons intuitive?

I have been in construction for 40 years, hands like sledge hammers. I can't type because one of my hands covers the key board on a computer. I have taught myself to type on my smart phone with my two thumb tips, no room to use the other phalange's... I am quite good at it, too. Of course, I probably wouldn't even had made the jump, if it wasn't for my kids teaching me.

 

[hslogger]

It amuses me how people on the board can poo smart phones. The fact that you have a computer of some kind and monkey with this website should be enough to make you appreciate the better parts of modern telecommunication. If you don't need one than don't get one but for the use and potential use, going back like a previous poster said is stone age Flintstoninan. You can gripe about them for what ever reason but if you have a good provider and bought a good machine, you are keeping up with the times and that is the real issue. After all, it is nearly 2018. If the tekkie stuff messes with your mind, take a tutorial or go to your point of purchase and ask the young bloods who sold it to you for help.

To me it is like the choice between the Sear's catalog and toilet paper.

 

[oosik]

I have a computer and use it to access the internet, send emails, upload photos and print out just about anything I want. I have an old flip phone and all I expect it to do is receive/send phone calls - it does that quite well. I'm very happy.

 

[Citydude]

The only things I really want from a phone is calls and e-mail. The rest of it is, for the most part, useless.

So, what kind of phones did you guys get?

I have the Kyocera vx flip phone from Verizon. It has network capabilities for email and the Internet. The screen on the thing is so small that it's a real pain to see so I don't use it for that.

 

[4570Man]

I'm curious how a "REAL" working man with working hands is supposed to operate such a fruity device. More for ET if you ask me. Just been trying to operate the fruity remote for my apple tv. Same garbage! I would prefer something like a bridge crane pendent! BIG buttons with English labels, not icons! I thought these apple devices were supposed to be intuitive. How are unknown icons intuitive?

Nobody can work without a job. That task is a lot easier with a smart phone at least for me.

 

[sseelhoff]

Smart phones are like any other tool. I need mine for work. I am sure everyone here has tools they use everyday that would be unnecessary to me.

 

[Industrial Toys]

SURE! Great! Waste time on a tutorial. In a year that information will be a waste of time.

I have this stupid interface that connects my retarded apple phone to my old GMC on star system.

Getting tired of screaming profanities at it, I finally gave in to its retardedness. When I ask for a party it asks for "Foam" or mobile. Only asking for "foam" will prevent a call to mobile. GREAT #$#%# technology!

 

[/pine]

Smart phones are like any other tool. I need mine for work. I am sure everyone here has tools they use everyday that would be unnecessary to me.

Need or make the job easier?...
Other than making smart phones, selling or repairing smart phones what jobs didn't exist before there were smart phones?...

 

[4570Man]

SURE! Great! Waste time on a tutorial. In a year that information will be a waste of time.

I have this stupid interface that connects my retarded apple phone to my old GMC on star system.

Getting tired of screaming profanities at it, I finally gave in to its retardedness. When I ask for a party it asks for "Foam" or mobile. Only asking for "foam" will prevent a call to mobile. GREAT #$#%# technology!

That feature does leave room for improvement. But you have the option to disable Siri and I leave mine on so...

 

[4570Man]

Need or make the job easier?...
Other than making smart phones, selling or repairing smart phones what jobs didn't exist before there were smart phones?...

Easier, but it's possible to deliver firewood without a dump truck and dig a footer without a backhoe. I'll keep all 3 tools.

 

[dragoneggs]

I'm curious how a "REAL" working man with working hands is supposed to operate such a fruity device. More for ET if you ask me. Just been trying to operate the fruity remote for my apple tv. Same garbage! I would prefer something like a bridge crane pendent! BIG buttons with English labels, not icons! I thought these apple devices were supposed to be intuitive. How are unknown icons intuitive?

SURE! Great! Waste time on a tutorial. In a year that information will be a waste of time.

I have this stupid interface that connects my retarded apple phone to my old GMC on star system.

Getting tired of screaming profanities at it, I finally gave in to its retardedness. When I ask for a party it asks for "Foam" or mobile. Only asking for "foam" will prevent a call to mobile. GREAT #$#%# technology!

IT... you are making me chuckle. First of all, I hope you aren't implying that REAL men have to have big fat fingers. Second, I am wondering if you feel operator error is in the mix? . Just got done watching a compilation of video here on TBN on how not to tow. I am sure you would agree it wasn't the machine at fault in any case. :laughing:

How Not To Tow Compilation - YouTube

Lastly, got to love the irony of your online initials, I.T. There are huge departments named that to deal with what you don't want to. :drink:

 

[sseelhoff]

Need or make the job easier?...
Other than making smart phones, selling or repairing smart phones what jobs didn't exist before there were smart phones?...

Need. I could not function in my job without it in this day and age. We are paperless. I have access to files via phone and tablet. And email and text when I am out of office, which is frequently.

 

[Citydude]

SURE! Great! Waste time on a tutorial. In a year that information will be a waste of time.

I have this stupid interface that connects my retarded apple phone to my old GMC on star system.

Getting tired of screaming profanities at it, I finally gave in to its retardedness. When I ask for a party it asks for "Foam" or mobile. Only asking for "foam" will prevent a call to mobile. GREAT #$#%# technology!

I've read this post 12 times and I can't stop laughing.

 

[smstonypoint]

Need or make the job easier?...
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Other than making smart phones, selling or repairing smart phones what jobs didn't exist before there were smart phones?...

People are needed to create the applications for smartphones, so "smartphone application designers/programmers"?

In March 2017, "Android users were able to choose between 2.8 million apps. Apple's App Store remained the second-largest app store with 2.2 million available apps."

• App stores: number of apps in leading app stores 217 | Statista


Steve

 

[k0ua]

Flashlight, compass, map, calculator, unit converter, news source, alarm clock, camera, phone book, dictionary, encyclopedia, weather/radar, banking, and oh yeah TBN!

Plus a hundred more... I can't imagine going back to a flip phone. I may be an old curmudgeon, but when it comes to technology, I try to stay pretty close to the cutting if not the bleeding edge. I have had my Motorola now for nearly 4 years. It is still working strong. Couldn't get along without it. The ability to have hundreds of PDF documents at your fingertips is worth the price of admission. And if it died tomorrow, I would go get its successor. No flip phones for me, thank you.