Smart Phone
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Introduce someone to a smartphone (or tablet, for that matter) for the first time, and you'll quickly realize how much you've taken for granted. From swiping to unlock and tapping to answer calls, here are the basics you'll have to show your smartphone newbie.
I recently gave my 70-year-old mother-in-law a smartphone for her birthday. It's the first smartphone she's ever had, and her first experience with any kind of computer. While it felt wonderful to bring someone into the modern, mobile computing world, I also feared having to field "How do I…?" questions every day for the rest of my life.
Questions like: How do I make a phone call? Where did that call go? And what do all these beeping noises mean?If you find yourself in a situation like this, don't worry. You can teach your smartphone student the basics he or she will use probably 90% of the time and offer the tools to learn more advanced tricks at their own pace.
Today’s smartphones are powerful tools that go far beyond simply placing phone calls. It’s like carrying an entire PC and entertainment system in your pocket. But, in order to take advantage of the features and capabilities, you have to know they exist, and how to navigate to them, and make them work.
Many things are intuitively self-explanatory. However, many are not -- especially for technology-challenged people like your parents who still have a VCR flashing “12:00” because they can’t figure out how to set the clock, or your cousin that still thinks his flat-panel display is the “computer” and the big box it’s connected to is the “hard drive”, or the elderly couple who didn’t realize they were recording themselves with their webcam.
If you bought a smartphone for someone like this, expect to get some calls with questions like, “What’s an app?”, or “Why does my battery run out before lunch?”, or “How do I upload this video clip to the Facebook?”Verizon is offering help this holiday season with free Wireless Workshops for Android and the Apple iOS platform. The classes are available to everyone -- Verizon customer or not.
Trained experts lead the Verizon Wireless Workshops, and demonstrate common tasks like sending a text message, watching a video clip on YouTube, or surfing the Web.
The Wireless Workshops also cover fundamentals like configuring the security options, adjusting the brightness of the display, and setting the device up to work with a wireless network.Contact your local Verizon store to learn more, and to find out what the schedule is so you can arrange to attend one of the free workshops. You can probably learn a thing or two to find your way around an iPad or Android tablet, too.
Android-Update:
Many users ignore the message that a system update has
become available. But the updates do not just serve your security. They also
resolve critical errors, increasing battery life, allowing apps to run stably,
and improve management of memory.
The updates come automatically without your intervention.
Regularly, your smart-phone asks the manufacturer or provider if there is
something new. And then you will be notified. You can then choose the update
immediately or later. The procedure is safe and runs without data loss. Your
battery should be 80% full.
If there are no updates for your device, take a look in
the Custom-ROM section.
