Category: May 2017

As the title suggests, I’ve been particularly phone challenged these last few days. Not only did I drop my phone on Wednesday and have to take it in to get it fixed, it also went missing while we were running errands last night! We retraced our steps and asked at all 4 stores we had visited, only to find it sitting on my desk when we got home!

 

Although smart phones make many things in life much easier, I find keeping track of mine to be a challenge. I can’t put it in my back pocket or it’ll fall in the toilet! It doesn’t fit in my front pocket because women’s front pockets aren’t deep enough. I can’t hear it if I leave it in my purse.

 

I find myself picking it up and setting it down in some new spot every hour or so, as I change activities and move around the house. Even when it’s not lost, it could be in any number of likely places. Kitchen counter, bathroom counter, nightstand, desk, dining room table, dresser, window sill, coffee table, laundry room, etc. It’s like “Where’s Waldo?”

 

I’ve seriously considered creating some sort of retro wall mount for it, and making myself put it there every time I put it down. It would save me a lot of wandering around looking for my phone.

Look, they make wall mounts for iPhones!

But do I really have the discipline to get up off the couch and put my phone in its designated special place many times per day, when it’s perfectly fine sitting on the end table?

I think an Apple watch would help, by decreasing the number of times I feel like I need to find and check my phone, and alert me when my phone is ringing out of earshot. But an Apple watch isn’t an actual phone.

What I really want is a wearable phone.  So I googled that, and yep, there are some concepts being developed, but not much on the market yet.

Here is a cool looking phone-watch for kids, that lets them call up to 5 preprogrammed numbers, so they can stay in contact with their parents and primary caregivers. http://www.myfilip.com/about-filip/

Now that I think about it, how many numbers do I regularly call every day?

That’s it!  I need a kid’s phone!