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Would You Give Someone A Smartphone For The Sake Of It?

August 22, 2011 by Michele Neylon 2 Comments

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Over the weekend I was down in East Cork with my mother. As usual there were a few “IT related” things that she wanted me to do .. nothing new there.

What was new, however, was that she was asking me about phones, data and smart phones in particular.

She currently has a very basic, yet functional, mobile phone. It *might* be able to check email and run a few basic apps, but I would be very surprised if it could do much beyond that.

The question asked was quite simple. Should she upgrade her phone.

I told her not to, as I couldn’t see any good reason for an upgrade. She uses email, but not that heavily. She might have a facebook account, but she’s not tied to it. She has profiles on a few other social networks, but she’s not active on any of them. All an iPhone (or similar) would give her is a larger phone bill, so I couldn’t see an upside to it.

I did, however, think that she might get use out of an iPad. I can actually see her using that and getting a kick out of it, though I’d want to get her a wifi only model.

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  1. elly parker says

    August 22, 2011 at 10:58 am

    We picked up an Android tablet from Carphone Warehouse the other week. It’s the Archos 70S, costs about €240 I think. It needs a very small tweak to get Android Marketplace working on it, took us about 30 mins to research and implement. It’s wifi only, but gives all the functionality of a droid running Froyo. Might be a cheaper alternative to an ipad?

    I’ve been using it heavily every day since purchase and have barely touched our netbook since…

  2. Michele says

    August 22, 2011 at 11:01 am

    Elly
    I’ll have a look into it – it might suit her

    Michele

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