How do you use your smartphone?

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What are your 5 main things you use your smart phone for? Well, you can list 7 if you want. Or 3 if that’s all you got.

(But making phone calls does not count as a “thing”.)
 
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Whelp, 1/5 of my uses are out per your requirement.

Otherwise, I use it for
  1. GPS
  2. Texting
  3. Friend tracker (so I don’t have to call hubby to see if he’s on his way home)
  4. pictures/video recording
 
In no particular order:

Checking email
GPS
Texting
Web browsing (for when my laptop is not an option)
Taking pictures
Appointment scheduling
Calculator

Oh! I totally forgot alarm clock!
 
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I wonder if I should have went with 10 as max. 🤔

It would be cool if it could substitute as a Swiss Army knife. Haven’t seen that as yet.

(OK, ten if you want…I can see that some of you would use it for child care if you could. )👩‍👧‍👦
 
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(OK, ten if you want…I can see that some of you would use it for child care if you could. )👩‍👧‍👦
Ummm no.

Some of us with children would rather, you know, parent. I’ve been very careful to teach my child that screens are a (productive) toy with a purpose and not a fall back activity for being board.
 
Yeah, I’ll need 10 🤣

In no particular order:
Banking - mobile deposit is awesome
Fitness - tracking calories and activity
Entertainment - Pandora, Audible, Hoopla, Overdrive and Kindle
GPS
Camera
Web browsing (like right now!)
Email
Shopping - Sam’s mobile check out, Ebay, Target Cartwheel
Texting
Scheduling and To Do Lists

As a bonus, I do use mine for childcare. Our daycare uses an app that they post messages and pictures to throughout the day. It’s really nice to have these check ins and see what’s happening throught the day.
 
Online banking transfers, texting, calling (hey now THERE’S an idea 🙃 ) and looking up addresses.
 
I was just being silly. I meant more along the lines of a “Rosey the Robot” scenario actually. It is sad, though, that such a levity could be considered from a real life point of view which you interpreted my post to contain.
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Interesting. If I ever have some of those small little hominids of my own, that child care app is pretty cool .

I had never heard of over drive. Can I get books and audio for free?
 
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Yes! Overdrive is awesome. Lot’s of ebooks and audiobooks for free. You just have to get a library card and you use it to sign in.

Hoopla is like Netflix for libraries but also includes audiobooks and music. Again, you use your library card credentials for access.

This is for US libraries; other than as a tourist I have no exposure to how other library systems work.
 
I was just being silly. I meant more along the lines of a “Rosey the Robot” scenario actually. It is sad, though, that such a levity could be considered from a real life point of view which you interpreted my post to contain.
Sorry, way too many parents in my neck of the woods that literally sit their children in front of their phone and let the kid be a zombie–in church, in the car, in the grocery store, etc. Often with obnoxiously loud volume
 
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I was just being silly. I meant more along the lines of a “Rosey the Robot” scenario actually. It is sad, though, that such a levity could be considered from a real life point of view which you interpreted my post to contain.
Sorry, way too many parents in my neck of the woods that literally sit their children in front of their phone and let the kid be a zombie–in church, in the car, in the grocery store, etc. Often with obnoxiously loud volume
It may be possible to develop an app that delivers a pulsed high frequency microwave which delivers a kill code to all cellular phones within a 5 m radius. Any phones within that radius would be rendederrd inoperable for approximately 60 minutes before normal phone operation would resume. I’ll check with my engineering team to see when this technology would be ready for beta testing.
 
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It may be possible to develop an app that delivers a pulsed high frequency microwave which delivers a kill code to all cellular phones within a 5 m radius. Any phones within that radius would be rendederrd inoperable for approximately 60 minutes before normal phone operation would resume. I’ll check with my engineering team to see when this technology would be ready for beta testing.
That very much could be done but considered highly illegal in the US, even in a business you own or your own home.

The only thing that is allowed is “passive” blockers like having metal a metal roof.
 
It would only be available to CAF members with the appropriate trust level credentials and it’s existence would only be on a “your eyes only” basis.

(It would be a free app, of course.)

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In no particular order…
  1. Texting
  2. Navigation 🗺️
  3. Shared family calendar :spiral_calendar:
  4. Listening to daily mass readings ⛪
  5. Alarm clock ⏰
  6. Flashlight 🔦
  7. Pedometer for walks🚶
  8. Get parish announcements
  9. Manage volunteer schedule via VSP
  10. Email
 
  1. Weather. BOM radar, is there rain on the way today, and severe weather alerts/ bushfire warnings.
  2. Texting
  3. Brievery and Laudate
  4. The Bible
  5. Photos sending and receiving ( esp check this snake out I almost stepped on, very popular ATM here)
  6. Internet and home security. Also online courses.
  7. Phone calls - mainly emergency use , ie person, vet,
  8. Alarm phone .
    There are some great farming type apps now.
Forgot the flashlight.
 
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@Roseeurekacross

What snake? What course?

🤔
 
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Blame (or applaud) my tablet keyboard… it suggest spelling as well as emojis while I type. It would be rude to not include it’s suggestions. 😁
 
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