MY very basic mobile doesn't know apps from naps .... Much like me !!

That's the best one I've heard in a long time, Mad! Must tell my friend who just got a phone and is equally as clueless as you say you are!

Purposely clueless, Draclvr, because I choose not to have my life patterned by endless texts or calls I don't want or need.
That's why my mobile will remain basic

And she intends to remain equally as purposely clueless! She's not interested in texts or spammy calls. She wants it for emergencies if she is down feeding at her barn. She lives alone and cares for about 75 rescued animals by herself at nearly 70 years old.

How wonderful !!

When I first had a smart phone, the scanning/rolling aspect drove me nuts to the point I switched to a flip phone. Made finding a phone number easier, but had little room and not easily adaptable to downloading or playing games. When the battery died, couldn't find a replacement. Got another similar model whose battery died within 6 months and learned no replacement for that one either. Got fed up and went back to smart phone but chose to get one with a small monthly payment plan. I don't use half the icons on it cause I don't understand them, just complicates things for me. I'm sure I don't use my phone for half the things that could be done but I'm okay with that. Long as I can call, text, games and a few photos, I'm happy.

The next time you have trouble getting a battery for your phone, check Amazon, that is what I did because I swear not to God but to somebody that these Phone Companies purposely change the Models slightly and tell you they No longer have batteries for it, ALL this to get you to Upgrade your phone where the $$$$ making scheme is. I would not be surprised that when you try and get a battery for your Smart Phone... Whoops, they no longer have it, Not to worry Sir or Mam, you can do an upgrade.... Arrgh!....

Oh, it's worse than that, Starcom. Most of the new high end phones are sealed and you CAN'T put in a new battery if needed!

Are you kidding me Draclvr, I would definitely Stay Away from those types of phones unless they could Guaranty at Least 5 years minimum battery life.
Wow, thanks for the info Draclvr.

Starcom, that's good to know. Though at the time, I hardly ever purchased anything from Amazon, figured it was faster to go to the store. That all changed with covid. Haven't in much of any store since then.

Well how very BAD is that ????

Actually, i have a very high end Iphone and they will switch out the battery if needed. Samsung (Android) does the same. Fortunately, the batteries last for years and it is rarely needed.

Key word is "they!" To get to my Samsung battery, I have to melt the adhesive along the edges, unplug the fingerprint scanner and remove 6 or 7 screws inside to get to the battery! I don't have a service through Verizon or ATT or T-Mobile. Someone who used to work at an ATT store told me they have to do the same things and hardly anyone will do it. He said iPhones are even worse. But like you say, the batteries last for years and they rarely need to be changed, unlike the old ones.

thanks for the info BrownEyedTiger, the next time I have to get a new phone, err I mean an Upgrade I will look into the Battery life of a phone.

Draclvr: You sure have a Lot of Patience and Skills to be able to Dig out the Old battery the way you describe it, I admire you.

i have a iphone, but the ringtone does not work, i can only use it to call people.

I gave up trying to figure my phone out. It stopped being something funny and just got annoying!

We are probably going to be forced into getting one by the end of the year. Our cell phone will not work with the 5 G network that the provider is switching to next February. I really resent it all, but in all likelihood we won't have a choice, even though we will only use it for emergencies.

I'm sure you won't have any problem with it Marian.

I don't like them, but I think I've finally mastered mine - as long as it's an Android and not an iphone.

finally got my iphone figure out, went to apple at cumberland mall, a lady show me and then my husband show me the flap to lift up to unmute it, my voice mail works, have my wallpaper, all set.

That is good family!

So, a year later and I still don't know how to really use this phone, though to be fair, I gave up bothering with it. However, my landline phone has not worked properly for about three months now and I have not felt energetic enough to deal with it so I had to give the cell phone number out to my one friend who calls me every day. I still have trouble answering it, having to swipe it multiple times for some reason, and also, the phone hangs up on us a lot. I am very careful not to touch anything while talking so I'm not sure why it always hangs up while we are talking. But, I am excited to report the following.

One time when the phone camera came on by accident and I realized it was on, I took a couple of pictures of my cat (really, basically one picture but three times. I think in one of them she opened her eye to ask me why I was bothering her while she was sleeping, so that one is slightly different. I haven't had a working camera for a long time so the only pictures I had of these last cats of mine are from when they were still kittens or no more than 1-1/2 years old anyway, I'd say. Last night I tried for at least an hour to get those pictures into my computer without success. Today, I tried again (another hour or so) and I GOT THEM! So happy, but so wishing I had more of them.

Good for you, oldbroad! My hubby STILL has problems with getting just the right touch to swipe things on his smartphone. But he has been able to get used to it quite well. I absolutely HAD to get rid of the old land line. It rang constantly with nothing but telemarketers and spam and I just got sick of it. It sounds like your connection is blipping out. I have a couple of places in my house where mine will do that too.

The way I get pictures from my phone to the computer is to open up my email on the phone, attach the photos and send them to the email account I use on my computer. Voila! There they are!

Since the earlier posts on this topic, we upgraded our cell phone to a 5G cell phone. We still do not have a smartphone.

We did, however, purchase an Amazon Fire tablet and were pleasantly surprised by how useful it is, including the pictures we are able to take with it, which are quite nice and of very good quality.

Congrats on getting the photos onto your computer, ob!

Thanks.

My phone is a 4G Android. I've often wondered what to do with a tablet and how to use it. I don't have anything to take pictures of anymore really.