How do you use your smartphone?

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I live in rural Australia, it’s spring and snakes are all slithering out of their winter homes and going hunting.

I get browns , red bellied blacks and copperheads here. All venomous.

Online courses, short term 3 or 5 weeks for volunteer work. We also do a lot of research in adult learning, on the iPhones.
 
I use it mainly for texting, photos, news and weather. I make actual phone calls very rarely, but it’s forever ringing from strange phone numbers that never leave messages 😠. I also check CAF when I’m away from home.

My mom doesn’t have a computer or cell phone at her place, so now that she knows I can get Wikipedia on my phone, she’s often asking me to look up some celebrity or politician.
 
Catholic apps

Rosary
Divine Mercy
Daily Mass Missal

navigation
texting
Watch
Alarm
Timer
music
movies
news
 
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Browsing forums, or the Web in general
Watching YouTube videos
Watching live sports (MLB & NHL)
Tracking my finances using the Mint app
Checking e-mail
 
No particular order…

Texting
Email
Recording homilies (side note: only with priest’s/deacon’s prior permission)
Navigation
Alarm clock
Schedule management/synchronization with The Husband
Flashlight
Grocery shopping list management/synchronization with The Husband
Remote access to land-line’s voicemail
Life tracking (pedometer, sleep monitoring, etc.)
christofirst said:
I make actual phone calls very rarely, but it’s forever ringing from strange phone numbers that never leave messages 😠.
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I have two policies that save my sanity in cases like this. First, all masked or unidentified numbers go straight to voicemail. Second, identified but unrecognized numbers that don’t leave messages get added to the special “spam” profile in my contact list. That profile is set so that all numbers associated with it go straight to voicemail, so I’m only ever irritated by them once. 😎:+1:t3:
 
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Xanthippe_Voorhees said:
That very much could be done but considered highly illegal in the US, even in a business you own or your own home.
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The reasoning here is that a lot of important businesses use cell phones or cell phone like technology to get on call workers. When we a local police chief in our congregation where I was growing up, he had first his pager and then after his cell phone available and turned on at all times. The EMS people had on-call times as well where they had to keep their devices turned on.
 
Regarding, smart phone one hour death ray for prevention of childhood brain atrophyy,… it was not actually a serious proposal. Only 75% of my posts can be taken seriously…well, maybe 80% I’d have to go back and check.

Anyways, I might have to take up some of these ideas on this thread, but here are some of the main things I do with my little smartphone.
  1. Audible- so many good audio books.
  2. Kindle- do most of my reading on my phone.
  3. Google- never ending wellspring of information
  4. Back Country Explorer- it’s an app for back country explorers, lol, people who like to hike, camp, and spend time in the mountains, excellent maps, gps navigation
  5. To Dos, Lists, and Taking Memos of various kinds.
  6. Texting, of course.
  7. Financial things, like banking, love e-dopsit of checks, etc, and credit card apps
  8. Camera, photos and video
  9. Google GPS of course, but sometimes my car’s garmin is superior.
  10. "Daily Saint- this is a great little app if you like learning about the saints. Interface is friendly, and information is substantial while not overwhelming. I need to use it more.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.symphonic.dailysaint&hl=en

** I should have said gmail, but I have some strange aversion to checking my email even if there is a big fat button staring at me on my home screen. :roll_eyes:
 
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Well, you still have to give at least one more, unless you can’t think of any others. If that is so, hmmmm.
 
I really don’t use my phone that much. I do have other apps, but they are ones that my husband tends to use if he grabs my phone when we’re traveling…like Mass Times or Geocaching.
 
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