[ale] Stupid smart phone

[Pete Hardie]

We just got my mom a new flip phone - safe against the 3G wind-down
happening soon.  Some smart features, but calls are the old way

On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 8:25 AM Chuck Payne via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Yeah, I had to disable that feature, because when I walk I love to use my
> phone as an MP3 player, and it drove me up the wall, that shaking the
> phone, told music apps to skip to the next song. Ugh. I am like why in the
> hell would  you want that.
>
> I have an AT & T Flip phone in the closet, about 4 years old, never used.
>
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 7:55 AM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> Curmudgeon Alert!
>>
>> Wife complains she calls and my phone answers but I'm not actually on the
>> phone. She can hear sounds from my end. I have no idea what she's talking
>> about. Until one day I heard her yelling my name from my pocket.
>>
>> My security sense goes into high alert. Can someone call and my phone
>> will automatically answer in my pocket and without my knowledge? What
>> fresh, new level of personal privacy hell has android now sunk to?
>>
>> In settings, gestures, is a way to have the phone automatically answer a
>> call by just the motion of moving the phone from a viewing location to the
>> ear.
>>
>> Pretty much the same motion of walking with the phone in a mid-thigh
>> phone pocket on my cargo pants.
>>
>> I turned off that setting.
>>
>> So what's next? A gesture that blocks callers if the phone is turned
>> screen down?
>>
>> Maybe a bit of delay that involves the actual ringing of the phone? Maybe
>> checking if the phone is in pocket mode? Or the case cover is closed? Or
>> maybe stop writing stupid code for people too lazy to plop their cheeto
>> stained thumb on the answer button.
>>
>> Can I still buy an analog flip phone I can dial by touch with numbers I
>> actually remember?
>>
>> Get off my lawn!
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