Phone Advice ( 09/09/2011 )

Imagine you work as an assistant in a mobile phone shop. A mother comes into your shop wanting to buy a smart phone for her daughter. Her mother is not very “tech savvy” and needs some concepts and features explained. Below are some of her questions, do your best to provide meaningful answers in simple terms;

1.       “My daughter insists that her phone be Wifi capable? What does this mean? Why does she need it?”

Wifi Capable basically means that the phone will be able to conect to Wifi Networks, which once the phone is connected allows the user onto the internet to do a whole range of things from social networking to using an app device to connect with you for free.

2.       The mother says “She wants the camera in the phone to be at least 5 Meg thingys, what does this mean? Does she need it?”

5 mega pixels, it will mean a better quality on the photos she takes, although it is a very good idea to have better quality on photos, its not essential

3.       “My daughter wants a phone with a capacitive touch screen. They seem more expensive, what advantages do they offer over other types of touch screens?”

A Capacitive touch screen consists of an Insulator coated with a transparent conductor, meaning that you cant use the touch screen through something like gloves, you have to use the speacial stylist

4.       “Are all phone as smart as one another? What is the smartest phone at the moment and why?”

It really depends on the gadgets and work involved in the phone, but at the moment the best smart phone you can get would be the HTC Desire HD its slim, the larger screen makes it easy to read messages, display photos and play games and is sharp in the colour departnment 

 

5.       “She wants to take lots of video and photos. How do I know which phone can store the most videos and photos?”
The phone that can store the most video and photos would be one with a large amount of memory, but also if you find a good phone with a low amount of memory there is always the option of an SD Card which you can place into the phone like a USB into a computer, and it can be moved to any other phone with an SD Card slot so if you change phones, you dont have to reload everything, just click and go.

6.       “She says she wants to be able to buys apps. What are apps? What sort of useful apps could she access? What types of phones can buy and use apps?”
APP is an abbreviation for application, apps are basically activities, games, helpful information and links to websites that keep people up to date and allow people access to everything they need.
There is one app called SCHOOLBOOK which you can buy from the Itunes App store which lets you transfer your school timetable into your phone or ipod, so you'll never be without it again because teenagers carry there phones and ipods everywhere but dont bother much with diaries or pieces of paper
There are also apps that can connect her to her friends via facebook, skype, myspace and connect her to you lik Viber and Facetime which link to you or any member of the family who has the smart phone application