, but we do have taxis that after you call them, they will be with you dreckly.]]>4 uses my husband finds extremely useful with his smartphone is having the Ancestry app on his phone it saves carrying around hoards of paper whenever we are out and about doing further family history research, another is the CCTV notifications along with the Ring doorbell App and finally the IMDB app.
Lastly the saying that "google is your friend" helps enormously over a period of time, I would like a pound for every time we have both used it.
]]>Definitely the end isn't in sight. But what concerns me is that folk have so much on their phone and should they lose their phone or it stop working.........
I had my phone stolen in Spain a couple of weeks ago that caused a bit of aggro, however I don't keep really important information on it like bank details or any documents like locator forms/ covid vaccination/boarding passes etc as we actually use old fashioned "paper copies". We travel a lot by aircraft and we have seen people having trouble with things on their phones for just about every flight we take, two weeks ago several people failed to get on the flight that we came back on because they had deleted things or couldn't find them.
Yes it is possible to use a phone for just about anything these days and that's fine until things go wrong.
Unfortunately our local COVID Tracer App doesn't work on my old Android so I have to manually sign in when required and my Vaccine Pass I have printed out. For security concerns I never use my phone for internet banking.
Definitely the end isn't in sight. But what concerns me is that folk have so much on their phone and should they lose their phone or it stop working.........
]]>No need to wait for it to boot up, start the operating system, start an app or wait for an update, etc..
William
]]> , but we do have taxis that after you call them, they will be with you dreckly.]]>I appreciate you cannot get a neat display of the location or ETA of the taxi using my 20th century method, but it works reasonably well.
A few years ago we went to see a recording of "Pointless" at Boreham Wood. We had to print out our email invitation and show it at the door to the studio. I think we were the only members of the audience to do this as most people had their invitations on their smartphones.
It's the same as ordering a takeaway from the local restaurant, most people appear to use an app on their smartphones for this, I pick up my mobile and order it as normal. No hassle and perfectly fine.
I think it's a question of what you have never had you do not miss.
]]>the point I was making is that one receives real time information on the drivers location and ETA
Yes, that’s a huge improvement on the old days (and although you can get that via a landline at home, you obviously couldn’t get it without your mobile phone at the theatre).
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I beg to differ, Albert! It’s not at all obvious from your topic title. 
That minor quibble aside, what the article describes is a curious phenomenon. Thanks for the link. 