In today’s life, we can say Smartphone is the part of our life. However, for those who don’t have a lot of knowledge about the gadgets, faces many problems. A huge question arises in their mind when they decide to buy a Smartphone; it may be your mom, dad or any older person. The question is that “How to Use a Smartphone?”. However, don’t worry WhatTechSays is always with you and answering your question, and we also have to answer of this question.
How a Smartphone Help Us?
In the starting of this post, I said that, a Smartphone is a part of our life, but how? So, First of all, we have to discuss about some useful features of a Smartphone in our daily life. These are:
Internet Access
One of the most important features of the Smartphone is that it is not only used for receiving a call or calling to a person and messaging, but also it can access the Internet. A Smartphone has built-in browsers that make it a portable internet access device. This can help you to make in touch with your social life.
Accessing Digital Media
Second important feature is that a Smartphone is as design as to assess digital media. This means that user capable to load music, video, pitcher, game, etc. in the phone and be able to enjoy while on the go. Digital media was in the market for past several years, but Smartphone makes it portable and less expensive.
Ability to Capture
A Smartphone has a digital camera built-in that make you able to click photos, shoots video and even records ides and makes a note themselves while on the go.
Accessing Apps
One of the most important features is their ability to run a small computer program called apps. This application can perform a wide variety of function for us. For example, by the help of this kind of application, we can be able to see live scores of any game, weather report, editing photos, etc.
Teach Someone, that How to Use a Smartphone
Now I am come back to my topic. Follow the below points to learn, how to teach your parents to use a Smartphone.
Make the Phone Looking Simple
First, you need to make the phone looking simple. I know a question rise in your mind that how it is helpful. Nothing, just increases the confidence level of the user and decreasing the unnecessary confusedness. To implement this
1) Set a simple looking screensaver that did not hide anything on the phone.
2) Set a simple launcher. Which have not been enough design or unnecessary things?
3) Set a simple font style for text.
Setup the Basic Setting
A Smartphone needs a basic setting like logging into Gmail or iTunes account. You have to create a separate account for them and login into it. Turn on the screen lock and install the basic apps that are necessary.
Setup there Won Information
Like the basic setting, every person needs the basic information on the phone like login information and password. After the login into Gmail or iTune account, you need to put their login information into your password manager for future retrieval purpose. LastPass or iPassword will help you to generate long password and make it easy for them to remember.
Setup the Lock Screen
Remove all the password and pattern system from the lock screen. For security purpose, every Smartphone provides you a secure procedure to lock the phone by help of password or pattern, which is sometime difficult to understand or remember for a new user. Therefore, it may be better to remove the pattern or password system and set the slide or touch system to unlock the screen.
Set Important Shortcuts
Probably you all know that the apps that we use regularly, is the most important, and if we create the shortcuts for these apps. It makes easy to use the Smartphone and not need to open menu every time. For example, you can put important contacts, message, browser, camera, etc. to the main screen as a shortcut.
Freeing Unnecessary Apps
You can also delete unnecessary apps, which you things aren’t needing to the person or can make the person conducing. Then you can uninstall those apps. Sometime those apps may be built-in. So, you have to disable it or hide it from the menu screen.
Teach to Use Apps
You have to teach them how to use apps that necessary. For example, using the camera, shooting video, clicking photos, viewing gallery, playing music, using net and also most important how to call a person and receive the call and as well sending text message.
Teach about the Button on the Phone
You also have to teach the person about the button of the phone. The use of the button and function of the button you have to describe and if possible then teach using a simple demo.
Back to Safe
The most important thing that you have to teach, how can he or she can back to safe when he or she can’t understand anything or beyond of his or her range. Simply back to safe mean when we use any apps or try to do something with the built-in setting and something that is not understood by us, we simply back to the main menu which is the safest place.
My Opinion
Everyone has rights to use a Smartphone. However, some person scares to use it because they things that they do not have enough knowledge. However, I think the knowledge is the cheapest things that anyone can gain from everywhere. Moreover, to get the knowledge you need two things one is the Internet and an Internet enabled device and you all know a Smartphone can access the Internet. Now my point of view is for a question for you “Can everyone easily learn how to use a Smartphone?”