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Mobile Phones
By Sheila Kennedy-robinson of Sounds from Source
As I am in the latter part of the 50 to 60 years age group, I have owned a number of mobile phones. Not necessarily by choice, more from a convenience point of view.
My first mobile phone was a gift from my eldest son when I moved house to live alone at the family farm, admittedly some hours from family members and I had been unwell for a long time. Seriously, that phone was the bane of my life, my son rang me constantly to 'check' on me, my health, what I was doing, what the weather was like at the farm and so on. If I did not answer it than I had the third degree of WHY I had not answered, and he could not understand why I refused point blank to take the phone to the bathroom with me. That first phone was just that 'A PHONE'. It did not have fancy gadgets and it worked just fine. Then the phone company decided to upgrade to the 3G network here in Australia and the simple, convenient phone had to go. It has been followed by a Samsung and two Nokia's which I managed to work with, as well as a few ??? frustrating 'this gadget and I can not communicate with one another, and one of the children took it home varieties'. I am not good at texting, and it is a laborious task for me, I have absolutely no idea how the camera works other than I have found the off button if I switched it on by accident. Why I would want to use its tiny screen to read emails I have no idea, and a recent overseas trip and my husband loading all of my phone numbers with an international roaming prefix means that half of them do not work now that I have returned home. The Nokia I have now is in a metal case which becomes very hot in just a few minutes and is almost impossible to use for any longer than that without a hands free cord and earpiece as it gives me a headache. Perhaps the manufacturers can take pity on my generation and produce a simple phone only version, without the gadgetry, although my children are making noises about my having a 'Blackberry' which is some thing we used to pick to make pies and jams in my day. |
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Thank you for sharing this intel, Sheila.
You voice the struggles of many of us senior citizens.
Keep up the good work.
Frederick
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