Getting off my corporate policy soapbox, my husband now has use of a computer. He never uses mine, because mine is the mainstay of my work-life. His using a computer is akin to my tackling of the Android phone. He's managing pretty well, and is finding lots of interesting 'stuff' for his interests--most particularly the rehab of a Honda Trail 90 restoration that he is working on.
While I don't care if I have the newest electronic gadgets, I do care if my technological interface impedes the way that I communicate. The Blackberry's interface with the digital world was poor. Even handling e-mails was clumsy. I will say that in the few minutes that I was handling my e-mail on the Android, I found it to be much easier to read and dispense with e-mail.
I will commit to looking through (most of) the user manual. I could not help but be amused at the necessity of prescribing "Finger Gestures".
One glaring deficiency in my life that the phone has discovered: "You don't appear to be signed in to any social networks." For the life of me I am resisting this. Yes, I have a blog, but it is not a social network. Yes, I participate in a few forums on line, but my participation is very narrow. I generally resist the "Linked-in" requests; I'm not on Facebook; and I'm not on Twitter. I cannot imagine anything that I could possibly Tweet that would be interesting or worthwhile. Many of the Tweets that I see on public sites are banal vocalizations of some emotion (happy, sad, mad etc) punctuated liberally with WTF and OMG.
I am resistant to the viral "friending" and the electronic dissing of "unfriending" someone. This type of social exchange just does not sit well with me. It is not a functional way to exchange ideas or outline concepts (who has an attention span for that in this tweeting world?), but rather an away to digitally emote. Granted, I do a little of that emoting here....
Outside of learning to use the basic things that I need on this phone well--and to be able to internalize the sequences so I don't have to think about them--I need to de-clutter some of these apps (as well as other aspects of my life). I will never play the golf app (needles in eyes!). I do not listen to music while I have to do thinking working (v. physical working such as think/work, but I do enjoy listening to music when I'm !#%~$%^ painting). (Mark went to the house yesterday, but I had my fill of getting wet and looking at all of the things that still need to be done, so I passed). I just needed some space. Nevertheless, I did find an old Collective Soul CD over the weekend and I enjoyed listening to that while I painted and cussed.
At least I can answer a call. I figured out the tethering (which I suppose is NOT what most young people are doing with their phones which is why it seems to be a Deep Space 10 application in which to find information about)--a process that should have been much, much easier.
Perhaps the power will stay on all day today ,and I can get something accomplished. I will try to tap, press, swipe, slide, drag, flick, rotate and pinch my way through this technology. There will likely be a few slaps to the forehead.
UPDATE: I am having no luck with the HTC SYNC nor the Verizon Access Manager (Update...you have to connect via Wi-Fi. Customer support gave me some tether info, but technical support (who reminded me that customer service IS NOT technical support) said use Wi-fi. Why both don't work is a mystery). I may be reduced to calling. (I did call) I tried out the tether using PDA-Net...that works. I also learned that while at home (or other places), I can use the wi-fi on the phone to access network to reduce my Verizon data usage. I'm getting slammed with additional charges due to internet outage and having to use my phone so much. However, I thought that I had unlimited data. See, I do, on my PHONE, but not through the Mobile Broadband. I didn't know until today that there was a difference. Silly me. On top of all this, Blogger has a new interface. I thought this post was published this a.m.
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