Only just, and with great reluctance, got my first mobile phone in December. Forced to when lightening fried 36 metres of copper landline to our rural home. First mistake, let the charge run out. Second mistake, forgot to take the car recharger kit with me. I dare say I will make umpteen more errors before it becomes familiar and easy. This happens whenever I have to adjust to anything new, like when I first got my dentures and kept losing them. The Daily Hunt for a missing set of teeth was... they turned up buried down the crevices of the couch, on the shower shelf, in my handbag... Back to topic. Had a lesson with IT professional, a young digital native. It took an hour for him to show me the basics and me to write them down in language I can understand. That was a month ago. So far no one has rung me, and I have rung no one. Nor have I needed to use it for navigation, photos or any of the other myriad functions that others seem to find so essential to their lived. I guess it might end up being for emergencies only.
I know how to charge a mobile phone. There really is no such thing as a cell phone. The network is cellular but the phones are mobile phones. I know.....picky. But I was in the room when cellular was born. :)
I hope so... It's not charging (in the electrical sense) but using the wretched things that's the hard part!
"Topping up" (in the financial sense) is another matter.
People in the UK call 'em "mobile" because they were more or less forced into it by the typically-illiterate advertisers having no clue what "mobile" means - the instruments are not mobile but portable.
At least mine is portable. Maybe yours has a motor and wheels so you don't need to pick it up and carry it.
Actually re-charging the battery is my least problem:
Sore point time. Ever been 'ad? Take this as a warning tale, if you buy electronic gadgets to suit your purposes rather merely keeping up with the Joneses....
An Orange tele-sales caller had wanted to sell me a contract but admitted my use was insufficient to justify it. I said the only drawback was the poor coverage in the very areas I would normally use it, so he advised me to switch it to EE for potentially better coverage, but still on PAYG.
Instead, the EE shop bounced me into buying an LG-made, bulky, physically-awkward, fragile, over-complex umpteen-G, video-and-WWW thing with telephone-call feature, on an odd mix of contract and PAYG. It will rip me off by about £250 over two years even if I don't use the b++++y thing and don't top it up.
The shop had persuaded me to buy a complete [portable + land-line + broadband] package by its being far cheaper than my existing [LL + BB] contract with BT; but when BT responded with a new tariff much the same as EE (which anyway BT bought from Orange), I stayed loyal and cancelled all but the portable-phone part of the EE contract.
Cancelling the LG would have cost me £250 anyway, and left me with a brand-new but useless 'phone. This is because contracts signed-for in a shop are not subject to the compulsory "cooling-off" period covering telephone, Internet and mail-order sales, under UK law.
All I'd wanted was a new card and registration for an existing, serviceable, simple, less-equine and easily-portable telephone. I don't know if I can transfer the LG's card to that older instrument - which, yes, I do know thank-you, lacks camera, Internet facility or pictorial-keyboard.
By the way... That new LG telephone regularly offers both so-called "apps" (urrrgh!) AND "new software ready to download". Not ruddy likely, because I have no idea what it is, as it is not identified prior to being installed!
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