"Chris Green" wrote in message
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Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Pamela
wrote:

On 18:50 24 Dec 2019, Tim Streater wrote:

In article , Pamela
wrote:

Shame to see mobile phones designed to be almost as disposable as Bic
Biros.

Personally I think Biros are more useful.

Holding out against mobile phones is getting rare. I was a late adopter
but eventually sold my privacy in exchange for utility, in the usual
Faustian pact with Google.

Oldies have been rapidly catching up with youngsters:
http://www.statista.com/statistics/3...-the-uk-by-age

I struggle to find things to do with my iPhone. I removed mail and
twitter from it, and while I use WhatsApp, I just just as well not.

The clamshell I used before was perfectly adequate.

I've mved nack to a 'feature phone' after having a series of Android
smartphones, I find it *much* handier in many ways:-

It runs for several days on one charge

So do plenty of iphones when used like you use that phone.

It has real buttons to press, in particular for answering a call

Even easier to answer an incoming call with a voice command.

It's very robust, no big screen to break (and I did
break the glass on one of my Moto phones)

Plenty of life proof cases.

It's not worth much and not attractive so is unlikely to be stolen

... and it *does* have 4G and WiFi calling.

But useless when you need to check on whether a particular
store has what you need in stock when out and about or to
check the hours they open, or whats open on xmas day etc.
Or check the road conditions during flooding, or navigate
to somewhere you arent familiar with etc etc etc.