Phone Advice 14/8/2011

Phone Advice

Imagine you work as an assistant in a mobile phone shop. A mother comes into your shop wanting to buy a smart phone for her daughter. Her mother is not very “tech savvy” and needs some concepts and features explained. Below are some of her questions, do your best to provide meaningful answers in simple terms;

1. “My daughter insists that her phone be Wifi capable? What does this mean? Why does she need it?”
Wifi capable is the phones ability to connect to the inernet throught wireless networks through wireless hotspots - where the internet coverage is strong. She may need the wifi so she can connect to the internet wherever she is in the house, if you have wireless at your home. She can easily walk around the house while browsing the internet, its basically like her having a pocketsize laptop.

2.The mother says “She wants the camera in the phone to be at least 5 Meg thingys, what does this mean? Does she need it?”
5 Megapixels. 5 Megapixels is the amount of little images it takes to create the bigger image on her phone screen. If she wants to take decent clear photos, with standard quality and she's big on taking photos and capturing videos, then yes she would need it.


3. “My daughter wants a phone with a capacitive touch screen. They seem more expensive, what advantages do they offer over other types of touch screens?”
Well theres two types of touchscreen phones. The one your daughter wants the capacitive touch screen, it only allows her to use the phone with her fingers, because its designed to responds to an electrical charge that ALL humans have. The advantages of this is that you don't neet a stylus or pen to navigate through a phone and it saves you from buying more stylus' or pens in the future if you know, she loses them. The capacitive touch screen is usally more responsive, so she'd be able to navigae quicker and answer phone calls from you for example much quicker.

4. “Are all phone as smart as one another? What is the smartest phone at the moment and why?”
No they are not. Different companies create phones for different purposese, some for business others for just the average phone user. With business phones more computing things are put towards it rather than normal phones and the capabilities of each phone vary. The smartest phone at the moment would have to be the iPhone4. The iPhone 4 Although it really just depends on which brand you prefer to use. There are soooo many reasons to why it is considered the smartest phone, I could go on all day, but mainly because of the way the phone operates and its ability to run applications. Your daughter could edit microsoft documents on the go for example or simply view them on her phone. It is also capable with Mac laptops or computers.
It just really depends on what she's looking for.

5. “She wants to take lots of video and photos. How do I know which phone can store the most videos and photos?”
Well phones have internal memory and external memory. Internal memory is the memory that is installed on your phone when you buy it. Its a default componenet of a phone. And depending on what phone she wants she can store up to 4000 or so photos on a phone with 8gigs of memory like the Nokia E6 for example. And if she needs more memory phones have the capability for external memory, so she would put an SD card, which is a small memory card that goes into her phone and holds the information there. Phones have specifications which have the details on a phone and its ability to hold memory and the amound of external memory it can hold.

6. “She says she wants to be able to buys apps. What are apps? What sort of useful apps cold(COULD, sorry sir, there was a typo i just had to.) she access? What types of phones can buy and use apps?”

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