Useful things to learn about your mobile phone (Lesson two).
18 May 2018
Dear LPG,
I would like to ask your readers a simple question. “Are you one of those pensioners who has recently discovered the value of owning a mobile phone?”
My mother has been able to email for quite a while now, and she has recently got a smart mobile phone that makes her life easier, and mine too. I have to admit that she has read, and now understands, the sentiments expressed in your news post which was dated September 5th and entitled ‘A child’s plea’, and I continue to thank the writer, TB of Plumstead, for what I call ‘useful things to learn about your mobile phone (Lesson one)’.
The problem with a phone call is that they have a habit of making the phone ring at just the wrong time; because mobile phones have a nasty habit of ringing when you are doing some gardening, at the checkout paying for your groceries, playing a game of bowls, walking down the street on a rainy day while you battle with your bag and umbrella, under the hair drier, chatting with someone on a noisy street corner or down stairs while your mobile phone is upstairs…
So it is vital to check your phone from time to time to see if you have missed any calls.
Here comes lesson two…
On many mobile phones all you have to do is press the button that gets the phone display working to see if you have missed anything. The secret is to press once and take a look at the display screen before you do anything else. You will find if you press a second time that message will disappear. So even if you are preparing to make another phone call or use the phone for something else like taking a picture, get into the habit of pressing once and reading the screen. If you only do this once a day, you will realise who has been trying to call, at which point, you will be able to call back.
Different phones show the messages in different ways, and perhaps finding out exactly how yours does this may be something that you will have to ask a younger family member to help you with.
There are lots more lessons that I could describe here but perhaps just learning this one thing could make a difference; if not to you, to your long-suffering friends and family members who often try to phone you without success.
JB, Lewisham.
LPG looked for a simple video to illustrate this without success so we have made one for you
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