As with everything, there are always
pros and cons to having a cell phone, internet service, cloud storage,
etc. I must be old fashioned in my way
of thinking. I would like my phone to
act as a phone and my watch to tell time . . . although the watch has nearly become
a thing of the past for me as I refer to my cell phone for the time and since I
don't wear my cell phone around my wrist, it hasn't bothered me the way a watch
often does. It's a nice feature - though
not necessary. It is convenient.
My first cell phone was through Voice
Stream. My mom and I had both purchased
a phone plan that came with this Nokita - a phone my mom refused to give up
until after she got dementia.
I had mine for over ten years and
may have had it longer but it seemed to have vanished during a day trip that I
had taken with Roland and the boys. The weird
thing is, I don't remember having even left the car - so I don't know how my
phone would have. But whatever. I had to get a replacement.
I liked the size of my new phone and
had asked mom if she would like a new phone also. She didn't wish to give it up
because it had good reception. She didn't trust that the new technology would
offer a very long. I think she was onto something. Seems
like many electronics that are offered today are meant to break down. They become relics in less than two years
anyway - so what's the point of making them to last? I like Adrian Covert's
description here.
When Roland upgraded his phone, he
decided he would need the internet and thus got a touch screen phone. That's all well and good for him, but I
cannot use touch screens for the life of me.
Either it will not recognize that I am touching the screen or it will be
hyper-sensitive and disappear altogether.
The touch screen for me, personally, is way more frustrating than it is
worth. Besides, if I am going to write
something, I would rather have an actual raised keyboard and not a postage
stamp-sized keyboard that is even more challenging to my actually small fingers
that have somehow grown to the size of the entire keyboard. Not to mention
having to read in such a limited space.
Give me a full blown monitor, please.
Roland's last phone came with the
option of a built in speaker to use rather than typing it out. It didn't punctuate - not for me anyway. Plus it is frustrating to have your words
misspelled or butchered at "Google" thought you were saying something
else. And so I'd have to proof-read and
make corrections - which actually seemed to amount to more work than if I had
just typed it all in myself.
Phones do not think - or do they?
I hadn't charged my camera for quite
some time, but Roland has a camera built into his phone. The quality of picture is actually pretty
good. I took only four pictures at Jaime's birthday party before the battery
gave out. We used Roland's phone to get
more. I was devastated when we took his
phone home to charge it and it wouldn't charge.
It has been persnickety about its connecting devise.
Roland took it to the big city of
Roseburg to see if it just needed a new battery - or what the deal was. It was beyond repair. Oh, no!
The pictures! I hadn't even
looked at them.
Roland not only purchased a new
phone, but is now on a different plan. Now
I am impressed by the technology of the cloud.
Restored all the pictures not only to his phone, but I had him photo/Google
the internet on his work computer - and there they were. Wow.
I was able to pull up some pictures
from my computer of ones we had taken in 2012 - which were also from his
phone. I don't know why. I could obtain pics through his phone on my
computer until Dec 2015. Everything more
current had to be obtained through his computer. Not sure how that works.
And, okay, I get that the GPS thingamabob
(gadget) that is located in the phone would know where we were when each
picture was taken, but what impressed me was how it labeled the photos. They were sorted into places and things. So the folders were labeled
"Christmas", "Sky", "Rainbow", "Cars" -
how did it know that? Okay, the folder labeled
"cars" was more of houses though I suppose there were cars in the
photos - but it certainly wasn't the main focus. Actually, I don't know what was. Roland said I had wanted the clouds. How pathetic.
I have been told that I am "trigger happy" when I am taking
pictures with the touch screen.
So here are some pics that we discovered
in the cloud:
Her pose reminds me of her brother, Randy |