Laptop, Ipad, smart phone, or just fly blind for a day

[Clipper]

I am taking my PC to the shop today to have them clean up the hard drive and replace one of the CPU fans. He says he can probably do it while I wait, but if he doesn't have the fan I might have to leave it overnight. If I want to use the laptop I will have to wait for hours while it installs all the updates seeing as how I haven't used it in months.

Take advantage of the time without me. Enjoy the sound of silence from the South, haha.


UPDATE Not today. Called the shop and they can't get me in until the end of the week. So much for the quick and cheap service they told me that they could provide.

[clarencebunsen]

My wife uses her phone for most of the stuff she does on the internet. I find the screen to small and hate trying to type even a text message on one.

[Deleted]

I can't do that texting on a cell phone I think my fingers are to big. I watch people younger than me fly through texting at warp speed and cannot figure out how they do it. I tried texting Joe Tahan's to my sister this afternoon and it kept correcting it to Joe Thanks. I give up!!!

[clarencebunsen]

Exactly. Small screen, bad eyes, arthritic hands, autocorrect, all make for a bad experience.

[Clipper]

I have the larger iPhone with the larger screen, but I still have a hard time texting with my large fingers. I have tried texting with a stylus but that is slow and awkward. Thankfully my iPhone allows me to do talk-to-text because I dislike texting and avoid it whenever possible. Do most phones have that ability now? I know very little about such technology. I would still be using my cheap LG phone from Verizon with the little minuscule slide-out keyboard if not for having a son that runs an AT&T store and gifted me with the phone as well as my iPad tablet.

[clarencebunsen]

I have that feature on my phone. For phones which don't have it there are free apps at the Google Play store.

[Clipper]

I bowl with a guy that has a cheaper model smart phone from a vendor that sets up on the roadside near Walmart. They are there daily even in bad weather. They have one of those pop up shelters and a folding table. I think it is one of the subsidized phone plans. It is like a mini version of other smart phones. The entire phone is only about 3 inches wide and 5 inches long. Small enough that he carries it in his shirt pocket. He texts away on that thing like crazy and he has bigger hands than I do. I am surprised that he can even read text on that thing without magnification of some sort. It is rather nice that they make such a phone though as the guy is quite poor.