How MOM adapts to smartphones

For smartphones, mothers always want to use . The main task of my coming home this spring festival is to teach my mother how to use a smartphone.

Working in Beijing for more than 10 years , go home one or two times a year, resulting in little time spent with mothers. Usually also on the new year to Zhejiang that small city, with the mother for one weeks. Every time to drive home happily, not a few days and hurried back to Beijing. In your spare time, call your home one or two times a week. Sometimes on weekends or overtime or when you forget to call your mother, around 10 o'clock in Sunday , mother calls with a hint of blame. To have a smartphone, I can easily contact my mother, I think so.

The first problem is persuading her to learn to use a smartphone. Perhaps it is an old age, the mother of the past is a little hard to learn something, is afraid of trouble. Before she had seen me use the iphone iphone, also briefly used my Google Nexus 3 mobile phone, always feel that the icon on the screen too much, do not know how to use, a confused sense of confusion. Before I eliminated a Sony VAIO notebook computer, the mother is rarely used, accurately said not familiar with the operation.

I was told to bring her a smartphone home, the mother was very repulsive. "That's what you young people play, I can't learn." Besides, smart phones are worth thousands of bucks, and mobile phones have to collect money on the Internet. "I have to follow the guidance," in fact, smart phones are not difficult to learn, I promise to teach you two days. Besides, you don't need to call me anymore, we can save a lot of cross-border phone bills. Besides, you can always see my photos, even video calls! " Thought can save the telephone fee, especially can see my appearance at any time, the mother finally echocardiography.

The next step is to choose the right smartphone for her. The Apple phone was the mother's first rule. She has been a lifelong primary school teacher, retired and still at home restless, with a few left-behind children. The parents of these children are working abroad and often call her cell phone and child. The child's hands are restless, occasionally slipping his cell phone accidentally. My mother has seen my "shattered screen" iphone iphone, a lingering fear of the fragility of this double-sided glass phone. "A little fall will be more than 1000 yuan, look more distressed ah, I do not," she said.

After the iphone was ruled out, then I turned my eyes to the many domestic Andro. Hardware parameters are not important, and most smart-phone chip screens are sufficient to meet the mild needs of mothers. I gave up cheap, big-screen phones like Big Cola, given that the big-screen phones weren't good for kids to hold. The last choice was Motorola's "new-Feng" series MT788, a 4.3-inch screen that looked more comfortable than an apple phone and more gripping than a big-screen handset. Although the smart machine does not fall, but the black matte material body, a little bit of security. The brand is also considered one of the factors, the mother only used Nokia and Motorola two brands of mobile phones, she believes that the old brand.

My mother was very satisfied with my choice of the phone, said several times in a row like. In fact, even if I choose another mobile phone, I believe she will also be happy, because of my return to any gift, the mother will be a happy smile. She used a small cloth pocket, carefully wrapped her first smartphone, for fear of any damage to the phone.

The task then is to teach her how to use a smartphone. Used to use the mobile phone mother, accustomed to the physical keyboard, always use the fingertips to point to the Smart Screen icon and virtual button, the result is always counterproductive, only to unlock many times failed. After many awkward tries, the mother finally learns to use her finger to touch the icon and go to the Pull-down menu. When I press the wrong button, she always timidly look at me, there seems to be a child to make mistakes, as I remember 30 years ago.

Although the mobile phone interface and Android native system is not big, but Android is too complicated for the mother, I decided to teach her to use micro-letters, music, news, weather, search and other basic application functions. For her, this is a very small learning task.

Micro-letter is the first application of her learning, for her to apply for micro-letter, mother and I can't wait to add friends. Send information, send photos, voice, "press the lower left-hand corner of the microphone button, and then press the ' hold the words ' button." Every step of the mother will listen to me in detail, and then recorded in a small book. The book is packed with details of how she learned how to learn computer and surf the Internet. Interestingly, my mother, who used to communicate with me in dialect, was always trying to use standard Mandarin. Unfortunately, she kept her cell phone in her pocket, and when she came to micro-mail, she could not hear or feel vibrations. In fact, the micro-letter became the mother of my one-way transmission tool, think of what will be sent a word.

Taking pictures is the mother's favorite function. Always feel the trouble of the digital camera mother, but the mobile phone to take a strong interest, perhaps because the mobile phone can carry it. Open the photo icon, click the shutter button, the Chinese New Year, the mother took a mobile phone around, the house placed the flowers, fish tanks around the goldfish, river bank embankment on the wasteland, like children as full of curiosity, found that the world is beautiful everywhere. "Buy you another digital camera?" I was tempted to ask. "Do not, the handset carries with, sees likes on the photograph, also may send to you." The camera is too troublesome to be handcuffed to the computer. "It sounds like mother is very satisfied with the camera function of the phone.

Music is also her favorite application, I installed on the phone more than a meter and QQ music two applications, input her interest in the singer or song, you can watch the lyrics to enjoy music. One afternoon, the mother spent several hours listening to Teresa Teng, Fei, Li, and many other singers of the classics, and then very seriously said to me: "Fei is really a good voice, the song clear and mountain spring." "Hear the happy place, she also will along with the handset to hum, even if the desolate cavity walks the board, is also filled with joy."

My mother used to turn on TV on time to watch the weather forecast every day, and now the smartphone has changed her habit of watching the weather forecast for more than 10 years. I put the weather through the application of plug-ins on the main screen, the mother only need a little bit can enter the specific weather forecast, not only can see the weather changes in the next few days, but also see the specific indicators of life, and even broadcast the weather with voice. "It's so convenient!" Mother heartily appreciates Tao.

Weibo is another story. To tell you the truth, I don't want her to see my microblog. But I also know that this kind of concern is meaningless, because the mother has been accustomed to search my name, and jumped out of my Sina Weibo connection. At the urging of my mother, I was somewhat reluctant to open a microblog for her, changed my nickname and Avatar, and paid more reluctantly attention to myself. "You're all right. Don't talk about the government, it's a fire (dialect, punishment)!" Mother began to see my micro-blog, from time to a few words, put forward a variety of opinions. When I decided to go home and teach my mother a smartphone, this scene was not in my imagination. But this is the case, and can only accept the reality. It seems that you should be more careful in your microblog, because every one of my tweets has a most loyal reader.

A few days passed, the mother soon mastered several commonly used applications, in her more irritable typing, also learned to find a voice input such a sharp weapon. Every day in my spare time, my mother always plays with her mobile phone, and she is obviously very happy with my New Year's gift. "Now technology is really advanced ah, before we think of such products, mobile phones can do so many things online." Our generation is old, did not expect to learn it is not so difficult ah!

Writing this article, the mobile phone rang, the mother in the micro-letter sent a photo, "The hometown of Flowers opened, really good-looking."