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USING A MOBILE PHONE

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• How they work
• Suppliers and their technology
• Mobile Plan basics
• Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth

• Taking a call
• Contact list
• Recent calls
• Adding a caller to a contact list
• Blocking a Call

• Making a Call
• Voice
• Video
• Messages or Texting

• Sending Photos
 How do they work

There are three main components

Tower Phone Sim Card

The Tower Transmits and receives from your phone.
It knows it is you because your SIM card is unique with your phone number and
supplier.
When you get a new phone and STAY with the SAME supplier just SWAP the SIM CARD
If you change suppliers, they will issue you a new SIM card but
YOUR NUMBER STAYS THE SAME
( You can ask for a new number if need be)
Mobile Plan Basics

1. There is the owner of the Network

a. Telstra
b. Optus
c. Vodafone which is now TPG Telcom Limited

2. Then there are the retailers

a. Aldi, Amaysim, Woolworths, Telstra, Optus,
TPG, Kogan etc etc

3. The Components of a plan usually are:

a. Phone included?
b. Network used - Telstra, Optus or TPG
c. Price per month
d. Calls to land lines
e. Calls to Mobile numbers
g. Overseas Calls
h. Monthly data allowance
i. Cost if monthly data allowance is exceeded
k. Texting limitations
Before trying to move to another supplier :
. If you bought the phone through a plan, then make sure that it is all paid off
as per the contract
. One needs to check if your phone is locked
It is very rare but does occur if you have purchased your phone through an
odd plan.
Iphone: Settings/General/About and the info is at the bottom under IED.
Android: Not that easy. Recommended way is to borrow a SIM that uses
another network and see if it works

Choosing a Telco (Telstra, Optus, TPG)

. Find one with the coverage that suits your requirements
. It is pointless having to stand on a chair in the middle of the living room to
make a call
. Unless you have a lock in contract, it is very easy to change and you keep your
number
. The retailers all state the network they use ( personally I use one that uses
Telstra and my wife uses one that uses Optus). Coverage does vary.
A nice no nonsense description of the plans
However after scrolling to the bottom one finds this:
In summary:
You can talk to the cows come home but if you use too much data it is going
to cost big time

So what uses your data allocation?

E-mails with large attachments

UTube
Watching TV
Video calls
Tik-Tok
Hot spotting ( using your phone to allow a laptop to access the NET)

Pretty well everything that is not Voice or Text.

So what is the answer?

If you want to sit on a bus watching your favourite TV show,

buy a plan with a lot of data.

For others (including me) the answer is WI-FI

Most if not all heavy data using Apps on mobile phones

will first check that it is connected to Wi-FI and use
that.
WI-FI uses the NBN to transmit data.
With the NBN, each user has a unique NETWORK
NAME and PASSWORD. (Usually comes with a fridge
magnet)

On an IPhone go to Settings/WI-FI , enable WI-FI and

the choose your own network and enter the password.
It is similar on an Android.

Be careful about using public Wi-Fi networks as there are

substantial security implications
Bluetooth?

This is used to communicate with short range stuff like

hearing aids, speakers and specialty types of equipment.
 The Contact List
Used by Phone, Face time, E-mail, WhatsApp

To find it on an Iphone

Tap the Phone Icon and then Contacts at the bottom of the next screen

OR tap the Contacts Icon

 USE of RECENT in iPhone App

Gives a history of your calls, make returning calls easier, makes adding to Contacts
easier

To add to
Contacts tap

To Return Call Tap

Name or Area

Tap
 iPhone
Adding a new contact from “Recent” in Contacts
Phone number has been preserved

Tap Done
when
finished

Type in
Name etc

Tap Create New Contact

To block a number
Tap Recents/Tap /Tap Block this caller/ Tap Done
 iPhone
Recent can get a bit large
Clear it regularly

Tap Edit

Tap Clear

And then Tap Clear All Recent

and then Done

Individual lines can be deleted via

Edit, , and then Delete
iPhone
To MAKE A VOICE CALL

Tap on the Phone Icon

Tap on Contacts

Search for the Number

Just start typing until you see the name of the person
(It is smart enough to search by Given Name or Surname)

Tap on the on the Person and then the Number

iPhone
Messaging

Click on the Messaging Icon

To send a new message Tap the write message Icon

. Search for the person ( Start typing the name)

. Select the Phone number ( make sure it is a mobile number)
(If the phone number is not a mobile number, tap the “>” and
select a mobile number)
. If sending to more than one person, Tap the ”+” and repeat.
. Compose the Message
. Tap the Icon to send the message

If you do not feel like typing you can send a Voice message by tapping the
Icon on the New Message Screen – Has to be to another iPhone.
 Or you could use “The Assistant”
For the iPhone users to start it “Hey Siri”
For the Android users to start it “Hey Google”

Then you start a conversation

You: “Send a message to Fred Bloggs”

( It goes off to the Contact List and finds Fred Bloggs’s

mobile number)

It: “What is your message”

You: “Hi Fred, I am running late.”
It: Displays the message
You: “ Can I add to it?”
It: “ What do you want to add?”
As so forth until you say Send it.
iPhone

To Reply to a message

. Tap on the message

. Compose the Message
. Tap the Icon to send the message
 Deleting Old Messages

Tap Edit

Tap Select
Messages

Tap the Circle beside the messages you want to delete

( They go Blue with a tick)

Tap Delete at the bottom of the screen when finished

Video Calls

iPhone to iPhone – FaceTime

Android to Android – WhatsApp

Android to iPhone is coming
VIDEO CALLS - FaceTime

Contact Search
Tap Icon allows for more than Click on Invite
one person to be called
What about Android Users?

Same facilities but different ways of getting there

Add a Contact
Android

Adding a Contact

Device:
This give you a choice of:
1. Your Google Account
2. Your phone

Both work but it is probably best

to save to your google Account
ANDROID

Make a Call or send a text

Find the person in Contacts

Tap the Contact Icon
Then in the TO: box start to type
persons name
When it finally appears,
Tap the name
ANDROID

Make a Call or send a text

And then tap what you

want to do
ANDROID

Make a Call or send a text

Alternatively
Tap the phone or message icon
Search for the person’s name
Tap it
Android

Blocking a Call

•Open your Phone app .

•Tap More. Call history .
•Tap a call from the number you want to
block.
•Tap Block / report spa

What happens when you block a number on Android?

After you block a number, that caller can no longer reach you.
Phone calls do not ring through to your phone, and text messages are
not received or stored.
WhatsApp Messenger

It is FREE
It works on Apple and Android
One can set up permanent groups (Broadcast Lists) that makes
communication easy to family and groups.
Can get it to work with Siri and Google with Voice input.
Apple: Only messages at the moment – Video calls are on the way
Android: Can make Video Calls

Apple: Download it from Apple Store

(Just use Siri: “Hey Siri, Download WhatsApp from the Istore”
Android: Download it from Google Play
(“Hey Google, Download WhatsApp from Google Play”)

To get it working:
Apple: Google “ WhatsApp setup IOS”
Android: Google “ WhatsApp setup Android”
There is a whole bunch of stuff on the Web which is very good.
What is the “CLOUD”

Firstly:
What is a gb?
It is a Gigabyte - billion characters
The term is used everywhere:
- NBN often has a limit of download in gb
- cloud storage is in gb
- When you buy a phone the price varies according to how many gb they store
(eg my phone is 128 gb – I currently use 27 gb – Why 128 gb? – no idea –
just means it costs more and uses more battery)
- A 32gb phone is probably quite adequate for most people
So what is the CLOUD?

In its simplest form it is a method to backup up your Phone,

tablet , PC

Apple - iCloud
5gb free; 50gb $1.49/mth
Google – Google Drive
15gb free; 100gb $2.49/mth
Microsoft – OneDrive
5gb free; 1000gb $6.90/mth

Just make sure that you are connected to the Web with
WI-Fi if you use it

Google “Back up iPhone ( or Android) to cloud” for instructions

OR
Ask Siri or Google “how do I back up my phone to the Cloud”
Sending & Receiving Photos

E-mail - imbedded
E-mail - attachment
Send them via a message
iPhone

Sending & Receiving Photos

Saving a Received photo via e-mail

iPhone – e-mail
Apple treats imbedded and attached the same
In the e-mail touch and HOLD
(if you tap you just get an enlarged photo)
Older versions of Iphones do it slightly differently

Tap save image to put into Photos

 iPhone

Sending & Receiving Photos

Saving a Received photo via Message

Touch and Hold on the photo

Tap Save to save to Photos

iPhone

Sending a photo via e-mail or messages

From Photos Tap on the photos Tap Mail if wanting to e-mail

Tap select to be sent and Tap message to send one
then at bottom with the photos
Android

Sending a Photo by e-mail

Go into Mail Tap on Attach File

Tap Compose Select the Photos to be sent
Tap on And send off the e-mail
Android

Sending a Photo by Text

Go into Message

Tap on and select photos

Dictation

Those with an iPhone and want to dictate instead of type

Settings/General/keyboard and turn on Dictation.

Not so easy for Android users but wherever you see a microphone
such as in creating a message in Gmail, tap it and then voice input is enabled
Some universal symbols

- strength of phone signal

- strength of Wi-Fi signal

- Menu in a drop down box

- Settings