Thanks for the video!

On your iPad or iPhone, go into your settings, under keyboard, and install the Emoji keyboard. That will give you all kinds of emoticons on your iPad and iPhone.

On our old mobile phones at the office (I'm the lucky person responsible for buying and preparing all mobiles and mobile phone cards at our office - only about 35 of them right now), I found that most of them lost the use of the Nr. 5... Never figured out why it's the five. after having all types of mobiles, dumb mobiles, 'smart' phones and iPhones, we've now finally managed to get it into most people's head that in future we will have one type of mobile only, and at the moment that's the iPhone... Mainly because of ease of integration into our office phone and email system, and if backups are done regularly, or the iCloud is used, when a phone gets stolen, lost, broken, it is a matter of minutes to install everything on a replacement., and if everyone uses the same, we can also have a spare or two available all the time.

My dumb phone died several days ago and I didn't even realize it! I think it's the sim-card - but maybe it is somebody telling me it's time for a new one. I think this answers the iPhone versus iPad question that has been going on in my head for some time now. At least I am not as bad as my DH who had a phone which no longer had a zero button - he had a very small pencil (probably one from Ikea ) which he used to poke the zero any time he needed it. Needless to say sending a text took as long as a pony express!

Way too cool! I love the hidden keyboard features video! I knew there had to be a short cut for the apostrophe, and I am so glad to see there IS a degree symbol! Let's try it! It is 60° out now! Love it! I even did the swipe in let's. So, you CAN teach an old dog new tricks! (Do we have access to any emoticons?) Thank you so much Margo for sharing!

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

Thanks for the video Margo! I still have an old dumb phone that does everything I need (especially when I am quite often with my kids with their smart phones). For some reason Mike decided to give me an ipad for Christmas. Now that I have it I am loving it and so I'm glad to see the 16 tips. Some I never heard of.

If I ever get the blog written that's been in my head I'll tell you all about my interesting experience with my ipad. We were NOT friends that day!

My problem is that my eyes don't focus very well on the small screen of my iPhone, so I love the fact that my iPad can show me the same stuff in a bigger version that I can see better, and that all of the info is transferred between the two devices automatically. Cool beans!

fiquilts wrote:
I just attended the smart phone group because my old phone very often would not show what people text me. I chose Android and bought a Nexus tablet to go with it. The difference is that these are Google related instead of Apple related.
It has been a learning curve but now I have my calender on all my devices and that works well and I'm learning new things each day.
I wanted the smaller tablet because I want to use it beside the sewing machine and it was a problem to get my labtop place there. When I go shopping I have the shopping list on the phone. Really nice.
I got a big surprise the first time I took a photo with the phone and got a message, that it was now uploaded, so you can see here is a truly beginner . I had no idea that it would just do it.
A real benefit is that I can make videos of my grandchild and show it to whoever wants to to watch! Isn't that an inviting thought?

Right there with you Loise! Love my iPhone and iPad. Have them since the first day they came out in the market, currently have the newest version of each. Wouldn't know how to live without them anymore.

Actually, I got an iPhone a year over a year ago in early Nov. I turned the pages in my day planner to schedule cilient appointments for December and there were no December pages in my notebook. :shock: :shock: Now where are you going to get an appointment book for one month. The iPhone would be my new calendar and it would talk to my Macbook and the calendar would be done in both places. Besides that my small camera was broken and I needed a new one. The iPhone camera was better than the one I had broken and it would wirelessly transfer my pictures to my computer. I now have an iPad and they all talk to each other. I download knitting and quilting patterns and project info to my iPad and take all my directions with me when I shop for yarn and fabric. I use some great apps on my iPad to use parts of photos for quilts. I am learning so much and I am having so much fun.

I've had a smart phone for two years. At first it tried to prove it was smarter than I was. With a lot of determination I managed to prove it was wrong about that. Now I don't know how I would do without it. Since it is android phone, when I bought a tablet I got an Asus android tablet rather than an iPad. Now I use it more than the pc! Fi

I'm just in the" old" phone club.....It is a" walk around" we use most, no cell ...however I have a push button :shock:
in the bedroom and a rotary dial-er in the garage !! :shock: I suspose I
will have to give in some day

Thanks Margo, can't wait to view the link!

I, too, still have a "dumb phone" and I struggle with it even! But we have the original ipad and the latest ipad - only because DH won them at work related conferences. We mostly use them to play solitaire! LOL!

I'm a member of the dumb phone club, too! In fact, I was too cheap to even get a cell phone until a friend offered to add me to her family plan for $10/month. But I have to admit that I broke down and bought a Kindle Fire after Christmas. Of course I got the biggest and the best because if you're going to go, you might as well go all the way. You can't beat it as an entertainment center! There are probably useful things you can do, too, but I'm still into the entertainment. I do enough useful computer stuff at work!

Nancy