Cell Phone

[Willie B]

It took me years to get to a hate only, (not loathe) level with my I Phone 10. I do believe you need a five minute tutorial from either of my sons, or any of 100 million young people in this English speaking nation. Not to say if you happen to speak Spanish, your available tutors might be even greater.

 

[aighead]

I'm an Android user with a Samsung Note 20, one of the big ones. I could never really grasp iPhone or Mac stuff. I agree that if you are in the Mac ecosystem things seem much easier with their stuff. I stayed away from having a cell phone for a while so I was kind of behind the curve and when I caught up Android phones were more open to do things with, so I went that route. I've attempted messing around with my daughter's iProducts and I just don't understand what it's doing.

I agree with the concerns of tracking and listening, but obviously not enough to not use a spy phone. There are, supposedly, things you can do to make them significantly less spooky, but I haven't gone that route yet.

 

[CM1995]

 

[Welder Dave]

somebody's watching me - Google Search

 

[cuttin edge]

I'd still run my old bag phone if it worked. I have a 16 year old samsung rugby flip phone. It has been dropped, run over, dropped in a pail of water. The buttons are worn off, and I can't hear the ringer most of the time. That could just be me though. I refuse to become a phone zombie. My wife and daughter live on theirs. My daughters I phone has a better camera than any Nikon or Cannon. I came out of the local convenience store, to the base beat of some kids car, only to find out it was a very well put together 20 year old walking by listening to her I phone. She had a bikini top, and short shorts, so no place to hide a stereo. Amazing how they pack the tech into these little phones.

 

[Pony]

Photos or it didn't happen

 

[Vetech63]

I have a S9 that is 2 years old............The last one before it got chopped into small bits when it fell out of my cup holder on my riding mower and I didn't see it. The one before that got left on top of my tool bed when I left a job and was 30 miles away before I realized it wasn't in the cab with me........long gone. Many other met demise in some way.......so I SUCK with phones.

I use mine for pics, calls, email and texts, and thats about it. Its pretty sad when I have to ask my 12 year old grand daughter how to do anything else with it.

 

[kshansen]

I use mine for pics, calls, email and texts, and thats about it. Its pretty sad when I have to ask my 12 year old grand daughter how to do anything else with it.

It like watching my 7 year old grandson playing with his mom's or grandmom's tablet. Swiping right and left to move from place to place and clicking on things to open them. Not sure how he learned how to do that.

Me I plain hate those touch screens! Feel like a crazy person flailing arms around to move from one place to the next. And heave forbid if you move finger a quarter inch the wrong way when trying to "click" on something. Almost as bad as the touch pads on laptops!

 

[suladas]

Photos or it didn't happen

Yea this is why everyone needs a camera phone....

 

[crane operator]

Well I did some playing around with my new iphone and downloading. With my android I could just select all photos since last import, and download them all in one shot to my photos storage on PC. With my iphone usb to lightning cord, I can download without going to icloud, direct to my PC, but only about 6-8 photos at a time. If I try to download say 20 or 30 at a time, it will give me the "may not have imported" b.s.

Thanks for the help guys.

I'm learning. I ain't happy yet, but I'm learning.

 

[Raildudes dad]

Wall phone or does it sit on the desk? Push button or still rotary dial?

 

[Randy88]

I've always had flip phones, still do, we keep it pretty low tech around here, all I care to do is talk on the phone and most days would love to go back about 35 years when nobody had a phone, we still survived then too.

 

[CM1995]

I've always had flip phones, still do, we keep it pretty low tech around here, all I care to do is talk on the phone and most days would love to go back about 35 years when nobody had a phone, we still survived then too.

No doubt. The "instant contact" society via the cell phone, text messages and email people actually had to plan their day, week and month in order to get a project done. Now some expect to call at 4:30 PM and expect you to have a 50K trackhoe on the site the next morning.

My father was a framing carpenter when I was young and I remember the roll of dimes, yes dimes on the dash of the van where he would make calls at the phone booth during lunch break. The roll of dimes turned into quarters and then a pager showed up. The rest is downhill after that..

 

[Mike L]

I’m an iPhone guy and have been for about 8 years. My wife is a diehard Samsung girl. I’ll admit hers has a way better camera but I’m so used to the apple stuff I don’t think there’s any going back. The majority of my phone failures has been dirt and metal filings getting into the speaker and forces me to use speaker phone or my Bluetooth headset. I do remember a time when we weren’t all attached to our mobile devices. Things were much simpler but I’m not sure I want to go back. The ability to order parts and get diagrams on my phone while I’m standing at a machine is pretty hard to beat. Along with that I can schedule work throughout the week, get pictures of broken stuff from customers so I can come prepared, take pictures of wires and hoses so they get put back correctly, and many many other conveniences.

 

[Obe]

I'm going to have to work on that. I've got a usb cable, and have tried to download that way, but I haven't figured out how to make it work like the android one does with "photos". It didn't want to transfer direct. The way I've been doing it is icloud to a zip file in a folder, to my photo albums, that I separate by month and year. I'm great from phone to cloud, that's automatic. Where I have issues is from my created zip file to folder storing, with how I organize/ label them on my PC.

I store photos by month and year, if I can find a bill from a customer from a job 7 years ago in quickbooks, I can then find the pictures of the job much easier if I have a month and year range to go looking for it. I'm going to have to cipher a little harder on this mess. It just seems like they make it more difficult than it needs to be to integrate back and forth.

I'm more of a visual kind of guy, so like someone else said earlier in the thread, plug your iPhone into the USB on your PC and then use Microsoft Explorers (the file system explorer) to access your images and videos. I think my iOS is something like 13.x.

Getting "into" the iPhone file system from the PC will look something like that represented in these photos...


There is one issue that you will run into with photo transfers this way, and that is orientation - I'll post an example in another reply since we can only do 4 images per post.
PS: I have a Samsung Note 8 that I am seriously thinking about migrating to - I just haven't sat down to do it yet.

 

[Obe]

I have had iphones for quite a few years.
I simply plug the iphone usb cable into my pc and open the iphone folders and copy and paste all or individual photos to a folder on my desktop.

I don't know if this is a problem with Androids, but I always have (at least some) photos that are rotated at 90 or 180 degrees from what they should be, and I try to carefully position the phone either vertical with the "photo button" down or horizontal with the "photo button" on the right and the photo orientations are still inconsistent. (I have also tried reversing that and still get unexpected orientations - so I use the "preview" feature from windows to rotate the images once they have been copied onto my laptop.)

clicking PREVIEW launches Microsoft Photo Viewer (I'm using Windows 7 Professional SP1)
clicking the "rotate" button changes that orientation, but you must also either click the right/left arrow (frame) button to move to the next photo for the change to be saved...

Hope this helps!

 

[Randy88]

I gotta ask, no offense intended to anyone, but where do some of you older folks learn all this tech stuff from, some of you know as much or more than my kids do and they live with it every day. Do you take classes somewhere to figure it all out, or just buy it and play with it till you understand it?

 

[funwithfuel]

No doubt. The "instant contact" society via the cell phone, text messages and email people actually had to plan their day, week and month in order to get a project done. Now some expect to call at 4:30 PM and expect you to have a 50K trackhoe on the site the next morning.

My father was a framing carpenter when I was young and I remember the roll of dimes, yes dimes on the dash of the van where he would make calls at the phone booth during lunch break. The roll of dimes turned into quarters and then a pager showed up. The rest is downhill after that..

We'll get an order for a brand new PC 490 or 238 and they'll want it equipped with a quick coupler and bi-directional option with slope and rotate. We won't even have the base machine off the trailer and they're calling asking, "is it done yet?"

 

[Obe]

I gotta ask, no offense intended to anyone, but where do some of you older folks learn all this tech stuff from, some of you know as much or more than my kids do and they live with it every day. Do you take classes somewhere to figure it all out, or just buy it and play with it till you understand it?

I don't know if I qualify to answer this (58yo), but I took classes many, many years ago (with the old teletype machines) and have owned a personal computer of some kind ever since. So I guess a bit of both.
I actually resisted purchasing a cell phone until about 8 or 9 years ago until the kids guilted me into doing so. (ie: My daughter said that if she got stranded somewhere, it would be nice to know she could call dad to come and get her.)
Now I use the darned thing waaay more than I would like to admit! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

PS: I started out with voice calls, texting, then notes, then playing music on BlueTooth, then GPS... But I draw the line at making my morning cup of coffee!

 

[Welder Dave]

I don't know 1/2 the stuff you can do with a cell phone and it's probably even more than that. I'd take a course but I don't know if such a thing exists.