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90 lines
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* Smartphone FAQ
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What is smartphone?
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A smartphone is a computer with cell phone capabilities. They are evolution of
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PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) and cell phones.
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Should I get a smartphone?
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Most people don't need it. If you still can live without smartphone, don't. If
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you need it for professional purposes, grab it. Don't try to find excuses.
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Why so much hate for smartphones?
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Almost everyone who hates on them have probably never used one for even five
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minutes. And after that you are still a hater or refuse to do it, you are
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probably ignorant or technophobe.
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SOCIAL MEDIA is a problem. SMARTPHONES are best thing since sliced bread.
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And they allow for a lot of wonderful things.
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Why are smartphone so addictive?
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They have so much features. When you bought, they already have a load of apps.
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Anything useful was always addictive. If you ever used a Palm you can get why.
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How to make a smartphone less addictive?
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Set the screen grayscale. It just renders 32-bit color to display as grayscale,
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meaning the photographs, screenshots and such things will still have color
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information saved.
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Hide notifications from apps that keep continuosly spamming you
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(Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat for example).
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If you are handing out a smartphone to teenager,at the very least:
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1. Don't activate data plan on teenager's SIM card. That way, even if teen
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manages to swap SIM card from the basic phone to smartphone, he wouldn't have
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access to the Internet.
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2. Reset the smartphone. If you can use it without SIM activation, just hand out
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both a basic phone and smartphone.
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3. FOLLOOW THIS ONLY IF YOU CAN'T USE YOUR PHONE BECAUSE OF LACK OF ACTIVATION.
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Ok, we will install a SIM temporarily. Install teenager's SIM card back into
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smartphone. Activate it and when you can use the phone, swap it back to basic
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phone.
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This way teen will have best of both worlds. It basically turns smartphone into
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a PDA.
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What can I do with smartphone?
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Most of things you can do on your PC and all of things you could do on Palm.
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If you don't know all of this, you shouldn't own a smartphone.
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Many people think that they know things you can do using smartphone. ALMOST ALL
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OF THEM ARE WRONG!!! Smartphones are a lot more powerful than you think:
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* Develop creativity - They have a camera and text editors! However, I dislike
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smartphone photo editors, they are useless in my opinion. Buy a PC and learn
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real photo editing.
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* Read books, surf the web, check weather, listen to music, watch videos,
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read news, e-mail and Usenet, IRC (!), take notes, use calendar.
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* They are actually useful in business. In reality, the original smartphones
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were business-focused.
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* Only for adults: watch porn on these huge screens.
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That's only tiny percent of what smartphones are capable of.
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Do they dimnish attention span?
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By itself, no. However, some features of smartphones do. Such as mindless
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usage of social media.
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I recommend you removing social media apps, in case you want to use
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social media just use a web browser (Chrome/Safari).
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Except Snapchat, but just get rid of it if you can.
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What are differences from iOS and Android?
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iOS is easier to use and faster than Android. It is limited, making iPhone more
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of fashion accessory than smartphone.
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Android has more features and lags sometimes. You don't need to be tech-savvy
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to use it, however, it is a little harder to use than iPhone. It has advanced
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features and customization abilities, which are here for power users.
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