Comments on: A tale of two grannies http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/a_tale_of_two_grannies.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:31:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kev http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/a_tale_of_two_grannies.html/comment-page-1#comment-222357 Kev Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:57:22 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6219#comment-222357 Ooops just noticed i posted twice already. Was on my mobile at work the first time and my battery died, so when i didnt see the post, reposted from my laptop. Maybe 1 post can be deleted Thank you Ooops just noticed i posted twice already. Was on my mobile at work the first time and my battery died, so when i didnt see the post, reposted from my laptop. Maybe 1 post can be deleted

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]]> By: Kev http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/a_tale_of_two_grannies.html/comment-page-1#comment-222355 Kev Mon, 21 Apr 2008 08:57:52 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6219#comment-222355 Oh mum is like the texting queen. Uses her mobile for everything, rarely uses landline anymore. The only thing she wont commit to is a contract. . PAYG @ Stuart. . just curious, what business did your Nan run from her mobile phone (thats so cool- me finks) Oh mum is like the texting queen. Uses her mobile for everything, rarely uses landline anymore. The only thing she wont commit to is a contract. . PAYG

@ Stuart. . just curious, what business did your Nan run from her mobile phone (thats so cool- me finks)

]]> By: Kev http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/a_tale_of_two_grannies.html/comment-page-1#comment-222349 Kev Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:08:05 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6219#comment-222349 My mum, is the texting, picture messaging and phoning queen, but still on PAYG. Hardly uses her landline anymore. .@ Stuart just wondering what business yo Nan ran from her mobile phone My mum, is the texting, picture messaging and phoning queen, but still on PAYG. Hardly uses her landline anymore. .@ Stuart just wondering what business yo Nan ran from her mobile phone

]]> By: Krystal http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/a_tale_of_two_grannies.html/comment-page-1#comment-222341 Krystal Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:48:30 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6219#comment-222341 Ahh but my Mom is only 56 and doesn't even know how to turn a computer on :) <em>Krystal's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmsTextNews/~3/272999732/a_tale_of_two_grannies.html' rel="nofollow">A tale of two grannies</a></em> Ahh but my Mom is only 56 and doesn’t even know how to turn a computer on :)

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]]> By: Ian F. Hood http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/a_tale_of_two_grannies.html/comment-page-1#comment-222340 Ian F. Hood Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:18:34 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6219#comment-222340 Hi All, Well my Mom (now mid 70's) was in her 50's when she got her first driver's license and she went travel happy - driving all over BC visitng friends and relatives. As soon as reliable in-car cell phones came out we got her one for emergency use. The charger got plugged into the cig lighter (they don't call it that anymore) and the phone is always in her purse. Turned off I might add. Now as far as I know nothing has changed since then. She only turns on the phone to make a call, and she's so quick at turning it off that there's no hope of getting back to her. Except for overhearing the term 'texting' from her youngers I doubt she knows what it is. But then, I just got her onto email and IM a year or two ago and she's much happier to phone her friends, which she/they do often. I'm not sure that qualifies her as a Normob or not, but to her it's a tool for when she's 'on the road'. Ian Hi All,

Well my Mom (now mid 70′s) was in her 50′s when she got her first driver’s license and she went travel happy – driving all over BC visitng friends and relatives.

As soon as reliable in-car cell phones came out we got her one for emergency use. The charger got plugged into the cig lighter (they don’t call it that anymore) and the phone is always in her purse. Turned off I might add.

Now as far as I know nothing has changed since then. She only turns on the phone to make a call, and she’s so quick at turning it off that there’s no hope of getting back to her.

Except for overhearing the term ‘texting’ from her youngers I doubt she knows what it is.

But then, I just got her onto email and IM a year or two ago and she’s much happier to phone her friends, which she/they do often.

I’m not sure that qualifies her as a Normob or not, but to her it’s a tool for when she’s ‘on the road’.
Ian

]]> By: Stuart http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/a_tale_of_two_grannies.html/comment-page-1#comment-222337 Stuart Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:33:08 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6219#comment-222337 The grandmother sitting next to me at the moment ran a very successful business from her mobile phone for 5 or 6 years - these days she runs it over the Net. She hard ever sends text messages and even today prefers to use her mobile for voice calls. She's now on to her 6th mobile phone. On the other hand this grandfather prefers to text rather than call and I'm only on to my 4th mobile phone. :) Stuart <em>Stuart's last blog post..<a href='http://www.home-office-guide.com/2008/04/12/small-business-its-the-challenge/' rel="nofollow">Small Business ? It's the Challenge</a></em> The grandmother sitting next to me at the moment ran a very successful business from her mobile phone for 5 or 6 years – these days she runs it over the Net. She hard ever sends text messages and even today prefers to use her mobile for voice calls. She’s now on to her 6th mobile phone.

On the other hand this grandfather prefers to text rather than call and I’m only on to my 4th mobile phone. :)

Stuart

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]]> By: word http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/a_tale_of_two_grannies.html/comment-page-1#comment-222336 word Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:16:40 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6219#comment-222336 My mother is almost 80, she lives in a small city in Finland. She happily texts to all her friends and relatives. One of her best friends (she's 80+) lives in Spain nowadays. They stopped writing letters to each other a long time ago. They send SMS. When my mother gets an SMS telling about an interesting book her friend just read, she Googles the title and author to know more. If she likes the book, she reserves it at the local library, via internet, of course. No, my mother doesn't send MMS, but she likes to receive them! My mother is almost 80, she lives in a small city in Finland. She happily texts to all her friends and relatives. One of her best friends (she’s 80+) lives in Spain nowadays. They stopped writing letters to each other a long time ago. They send SMS. When my mother gets an SMS telling about an interesting book her friend just read, she Googles the title and author to know more. If she likes the book, she reserves it at the local library, via internet, of course.
No, my mother doesn’t send MMS, but she likes to receive them!

]]> By: Jeanette http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/a_tale_of_two_grannies.html/comment-page-1#comment-222284 Jeanette Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:04:23 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6219#comment-222284 Hi Jonathan, As a California Grannie who doesn't think of herself as a grannie, I keep my mobile phone on and even take it on my walks. I rarely text. I had my first mobile phone years ago when the separate battery was larger than the phone. I don't like carrying the Internet with me because I want to turn it off when I go out, so I don't have a BlackBerry or an iPhone. I did buy a special international phone for traveling and it worked well in Turkey and Greece. It got stolen at knife point in Argentina. How old are your two grannies? My mother also has a mobile phone (no land line) and she uses it all the time to talk to family. She doesn't text. Joy~ Jeanette Hi Jonathan,

As a California Grannie who doesn’t think of herself as a grannie, I keep my mobile phone on and even take it on my walks. I rarely text. I had my first mobile phone years ago when the separate battery was larger than the phone. I don’t like carrying the Internet with me because I want to turn it off when I go out, so I don’t have a BlackBerry or an iPhone. I did buy a special international phone for traveling and it worked well in Turkey and Greece. It got stolen at knife point in Argentina.

How old are your two grannies? My mother also has a mobile phone (no land line) and she uses it all the time to talk to family. She doesn’t text.

Joy~

Jeanette

]]> By: Krystal http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/04/a_tale_of_two_grannies.html/comment-page-1#comment-222281 Krystal Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:50:59 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=6219#comment-222281 My Mom falls victim to this. She has a phone (recently updated a couple years ago to a top of the line Nokia 6061!) but it's not always on unless she happens to be out somewhere and knows I'm going to call her for some reason. She's still on PAYG, constantly having to put another $10 on it at the end of the month so that her old ones don't expire, (she must have 72 days of talk time by now) and can't send a text message for the life of her. Which drives me crazy, because for me to send her one would be simple and free (as she's also on Fido, and I have a Fido to Fido plan) She's not a Grannie (although she will be June 1st as my sister is expecting) but she fits quite easily into the unconnected generation. I wouldn't even call them normobs, as I would hope a normob would at least send a text message here or there. They're like, cavemennormobs :) <em>Krystal's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SmsTextNews/~3/272999732/a_tale_of_two_grannies.html' rel="nofollow">A tale of two grannies</a></em> My Mom falls victim to this. She has a phone (recently updated a couple years ago to a top of the line Nokia 6061!) but it’s not always on unless she happens to be out somewhere and knows I’m going to call her for some reason. She’s still on PAYG, constantly having to put another $10 on it at the end of the month so that her old ones don’t expire, (she must have 72 days of talk time by now) and can’t send a text message for the life of her. Which drives me crazy, because for me to send her one would be simple and free (as she’s also on Fido, and I have a Fido to Fido plan) She’s not a Grannie (although she will be June 1st as my sister is expecting) but she fits quite easily into the unconnected generation. I wouldn’t even call them normobs, as I would hope a normob would at least send a text message here or there. They’re like, cavemennormobs :)

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