@shaggygirl wrote:
@gardenman wrote:
Just a note for you flip phone owners. When you finally get a smart phone, it'll blow your mind all you can do with it. My cheap little LG Premiere Pro ($89.99 with a years service when I bought it) is a mini-computer for accessing the net from nearly anywhere, phone, camcorder, digital still camera, radio, digital assistant, calendar, timer, clock, flashlight, WiFi hotspot, FM radio, portable gaming unit, and more, all in one tiny little package.
You'll be amazed at how you ever got along without one once you get your hands on a smartphone. And they're really inexpensive these days. (Or they can be anyway.) You'll find yourself using it more and more and wonder why you waited so long to join the revolution. I never have to look for a timer, camera, clock, or flashlight these days. It's there with me hiding in my phone. If I'm out someplace where there's no WiFi and I need to use my tablet for something a quick flick, a couple of taps, and my phone turns into a hotspot using its data to feed the tablet. I made the switch from a flip phone about four years ago, and boy am I glad I did. I was always one of those "I don't need all of that" people, but it turns out I did and I just didn't realize it.
@gardenman I hear ya loud and clear. My kids have told me a hundred times but they've given up. The only thing I would like in a phone is a garmin. However, I've decided if I don't know how to get somewhere then I'm just not going. lol
The GPS is very handy. I use Google Maps and it's a real time saver. It takes me on some pretty scenic routes that I'd never try otherwise, but it gets me where I need to be in a timely fashion, so I can't complain. I had a recent doctor visit up in Blackwood NJ and I'd likely still be looking for the place without the GPS. There were three largely unlabeled traffic circles you had to traverse and Google Maps led me to the right place. (Well, it was off by a couple of hundred yards, but close enough.) There are times you have to get someplace new and having a GPS can be very handy. I've now given up my home phone due to the nonstop telemarketers and even if one calls my smartphone, it's right with me, so I don't have to run to it to find out its Rachel from cardholder services.
I'll even use Google maps when I know where I'm going. Sometimes it wants me to take a different route and it's kind of fun to see it replotting the route as I go. I have a doctor in Glassboro I see and the easiest way for me to get there is to take 295 to the 322 exit and follow 322 to Glassboro. Google Maps really wants me to take the Turnpike instead. I wonder sometimes if the app designers don't get a kickback from the Turnpike authority as even when I take the 322 exit, it'll want me to u-turn and go back to the Turnpike. It'll finally accept my decision once I get on 322 and adjusts the timing accordingly from 44 minutes to u-turn back to the Turnpike to the 26 minutes it takes on 322.
I'd changed the setting one day to avoid toll routes and it decided a trip across the bridge to New Castle, Delaware (which is about a twenty minute trip for me) would take well over two hours as they had me go way, way up north to avoid the toll bridges. Yeah, it's not the smartest GPS in the world, but it works.
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