Smart Watch

 I have still not come to grips with my Samsung phone and now I have the Samsung watch. On the previous snorkel effort at Magnetic Island my watch drowned. It was pointed out by the watchman that when the battery is replaced the seals are never the same. In our recent order for the Good Guys, the list was as long as your arm, so I said what about throwing in one of these watches. The salesman was under pressure, it wasn't a freebie but it was cheap.  Now I have to deal with this all singing all dancing wrist mobile.  It seems it will act like a phone as long as you have a phone.   It does tell me the time. That is a literal statement. I had to turn off that function as I did not want it to tell me the time.  Otherwise after three hours of use it is down to 88% of power and I have walked 756 steps and it is 10 to 12 noon.

More phone wrangling

 A few years back we setup the commonwealth bank mobile phone payment method mainly as another way to pay when we were overseas.  So we haven't given much attention to the newer Google Pay and Samsung Pay systems.  I went to the supermarket today but left my wallet at home. So I had to do the whole thing twice including getting stuff out of the fridge area, as when I went to retrieve the wallet from home they had put those things back into their fridge.  This afternoon I have been wrestling with Samsung Pay. As a rule, I use a debit card at the supermarket and the very first card I try to add is not recognised by their system. It seems I have to convert it to a specific mastercard type of debit card, which will take 10 days to be delivered.  So I then added the credit card with no trouble, so if I have left the money at home in future, I can still pay using the phone.

Phone Taming

 I had another go at Android phone taming today with good success.  I can play music now despite all the copied tunes being .wma (windows media audio) from the old windows phone. I had to install a different music player which worked like a treat. As for the emails, I set up a POP3 (Post Office Protocol) type of account in G Mail,  as the Outlook method wanted to be more secure therefore more finicky.  So in the end I can now use Google to go to my Optus mail server and get my email and instead of displaying it via Outlook, I can access via Google Mail. Phew!  Not that I will be paying it too much attention, away from my desk.

Mail Phone

The pressure is on to have the latest and greatest phone which will allow displaying of the linked double zap certificate in the contact tracing app.  My old phone was being phased out so this new one will get me on aeroplanes and thru doorways.  But do you think I can get my emails to work on it. I can logon to the optus web page to see the emails that way no problem, but the password to directly fetch them from the optus server is most likely different. The last time I used it was setting up the old phone 6 yar ago. I must have it written down here somewhere. I have made a phone call though.