Entering the 20th century...

...now that it's over.

I'm posting this from my brand new, first-ever smart phone.

The Trac phone is in the garbage.

This screen is tiny.

Now you can check Wordforge every time you get stuck in standstill traffic.

What's your Snapchat handle? Tinder?

Time for tapatalk to properly annoy folks with the extra sig line.

Also, what did you get? iPhones are popular with teens and teh gheys.

A BlackBerry would be appropriately obsolete for him.

FTFY

I still haven't taken the plunge. I have a cheap flip phone just so I can make basic calls as if it were a rotary phone, although portable of course. I get too frustrated with pressing tiny buttons and trying to remember all the steps to using new technology. Would I be a "technophobe" then? Every single thing I use or buy is the most simple, basic version I can get and still function.

I just bought a smartphone last year. I got stationed overseas and due to a stolen wallet plus the fucked upness of Japanese cell phone billing, I couldn't get a contract for most of the time I was there. I didn't know what the bid thing was with smartphones.

A year later and my Note II acts as computer, GPS (A godsend with all the traveling 'round the country for commissioning), calculator, Kindle and video player...the latter of which is equally a godsend when I live onboard my ship and there is no wifi for Hulu viewing.

And also one or two phone calls a month to family. If it were cheaper to cut out phone minutes, I'd happily do it.

Stone knives and bearskins.

Samsung Galaxy 5. Can't see using it for internet much, though. Even the "new larger screen!!" is awfully small for my eyesight.
And I'd rather die than use Tapatalk.

Isn't snapchat for 12-year-olds? And Fox News commentators?

Oh yeah - cheapest Verizon plan for two phones: $120 a month.
Tracphone, 400 minutes for 1 year: $99. I've been doing that for maybe 5 years, and I still have 1,360 minutes remaining.

Just by way of saying why we've been hesitant to move up. We'll be paying 7 times as much per phone for the same occasional usage.

"Gotta move with the fashion
Or be outcast."

Oh, hey, any good app recommendations? Especially free ones?

Waze. Definitely Waze.

you should check out undresscode

Google Keep
CamScanner
Feedly
Google Translate
Waygo
Google Goggles

... all do what they do very well.

Don't have my phone in front of me but NASA has an app that lets you see Mars imagery and information, for free, from both the rovers and the orbiters. Some of the imagery is stereoscopic, too. Pretty cool.

You're ahead of me on that one, Forbin. I still have a Net10 (division of Tracfone) LG900G, which is considered a "semi-smart" phone. It looks a bit like an older Blackberry. Its apps are limited to an Opera Browser, and a few old games like snake, and sudoku. I just use it for calling, and listening to MP3s (it has a slot for a 4GB micro sd-card). I'd love to step up to a smart phone, but they're a bit pricey, and you have to have a higher speed phone service. While Net10 offers that, and for a reasonable price, my income is very unpredictable. Right now I pay $30 every 60 days, which comes out to $15 a month, and of those 300 minutes every two months, I may use 30 minutes total. So I have no need, even though I would love to have one, if only so I could get that NASA app Lanz is talking about.

Here's a pic of the phone model:

I like my iPhone

I have an iPhone 4s but my contract is up this December, so I'll be upgrading to an iPhone 6.

PalmOS.

There's gotta be something out there that will read Wordforge posts out loud to you while you drive.

Come on, you KNOW you want to.

I don't know how people live without smart phones.

With the addition of my Chromecast, my phone acts as:

-Communication Device
-Portable Computer
-GPS
-TV Remote (thank you built in IR blaster)
-Chromecast Remote
-Camera
-Pedometer
-Thermometer/Hygrometer
-Mobile Hotspot

I don't do all those things, but just today I've used it to read Wordforge, check my email, manage my business Facebook page, take and share a couple of pictures, find my way to an appointment on the other side of town, and watch a couple of episodes of DS9. I've also occasionally used it as a radio.

Oh, and sometimes I make phone calls. But at work, I actually use the landline as much as I can. Funny how that works...

Mr. Castle's posts would be a real trip.

The wife and I are in the same boat. If memory serves, our contract is up on the 17th. My 4s still a perfectly fine and capable device, but I've noticed that the battery's life is starting to fade.

Suit yourself. It really is a nice piece of software.

I find Wordforge's mobile skin to work quite well on my phone, but I do like tapatalk for some other forums. It is often a much better experience than trying to deal with the native site in the browser.

After an evening app orgy, my phone now has more photo effects filters than the Corel PhotoPaint program on my PC.

Yeah, I'm getting the same thing. A charge doesn't last as long as it used to.

How much is a new battery?

That's a meaningless question to an iFan -- you can't access the battery. For the rest of us, yeah, just buy a new battery and bam, there's another 2 years of good use.