I do have some music on my phone but never or virtually never listen to it. It takes up quite a lot of memory space and I never walk around with headphones on a phone. Its asking to be mugged. The memory is not big enough to hold what I want in the car. In the Panda I have one memory stick with 128GB of memory and 200 hours or thereabouts of music sits in one corner of it. Its permanently plugged into the car and fairly easy to use. Every now and then I add more, one day it will be full, but probably not in my life time. I tend to use the phone for communication. Once set the phone transfers automatically when in the car. You just need to remmeber the radio must be on for it work. I have switched the radio off before and promtly got lost as the sat nav has gone. On a dark wet winters night this is really annoying!!
I use:-
Whatsapp which gives photo and text messaging AND video telephone calls, free of charge at home via the internet. Its a reasonably secure way of keeping in touch with family. It does use phone data at quite a rate so rarely used except for text out of home. I do send a few photos though and get them from the third world dictatorship across the pond.
Phone app obviously for most calls
text messaging .
calculator,
calendar and alarms for appointments,
camera is in constant use.
Fiat Forum app,
NHS app.
Car parking apps for the obvious ease of paying where needed.
PANDA APP This has links to various navigation and music playing apps it also can control radio (Pointless) and use the phone as a dash cam. Its a useful way of easily using Google maps or waze for navigation. Waze provides petrol stations and costs supermarkest etc. Google is there and its usual prenicious self.
I use the phone supplier apps Three and Smarty occasionally if a top up is urgently needed
I have software for reading PDF and word files and spreadsheets.
I now have a password management software and full internet protection software
Problems are that the phone takes photos and stuffs them into Samsung gallery, they appear in whatsapp, and google photos and then upload onto my lap top. This results in them being a pain the the rear end as they seem to multiply. I have now stopped the phone and laptop communicating / synching which has mad things better. I control what is kept where. I control whats downloaded and when I delete something it is deleted and doesn't return from a random place in the ether.
I make full use of call blocking and its reduced the nuisance calls by 90%.
Google needs extensive control to prevent it running amock. Its easy enough but essential to stop it filling your equipment with stuff you don't want.
The big advantage of the smart phone is it allows you to use the 'googles' of the world when you are out if you choose to do so. If I need soemthing and find ot out of stock at my normal water holes I can choose to look elsewhere and its useful using the search engines.
Smart phones, annoying, yes, frusrating when they wont oblige yes. But wonderful for keeping in touch with family and sharing interesting and amusing photos and little ditties like singing grandchildren.
My contaract with Smarty gives 4GB of phone data and I have never run out yet. If I dont use it all by a big margin I get a credit back. Prices are stable and I can stop and change at any time. The Smarty web site is as good as these things get and easy to use.
Others have said get more internal storage for a little more money and I agree. Most phones have a choice even on the same model. If I need a new phone, I will be looking for 128GB of storage and probably a samsung of last years build and I would be looking to pay £150 max. Mrs Panda Nut got a refurbished grade A phone which came in its box and has been perfect. Its a fration better than my absolutley new one and cost£100 about a year ago. SHe spends a lot of time using it on web sites and its never come up short.
My internet AV software has locate my phone capacity. I dropped hte phone in Manchester. It was gone of course. When however I knocked the door of its recorded location and asked if they had found it, I did get it back!Im sure you are really enjoying the business of phone buying.... Just pick one that looks OK from a decent supplier and dont go spending too much. It will be fine. Bad smart phones are not a wide spread topic of converstaion.
