Blog > Cell phone > Almost no one uses these useful cell phone functions: Pretty sloppily written

  • For me, the blog post “Blog > Cell Phone > Almost no one uses these useful cell phone functions” is an example of how not to do it.

    I would like to give it a thumbs down, but that’s not the plan.

    These tips for “useful cell phone functions” are so short and so general and sloppily described that you don’t need them. I expect such tips to always present the procedure precisely and step by step.

    Just do a little searching on your cell phone, I’m good at that now, I don’t need any tips.

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    • Hello @Chaziosse19

      Given the variety of devices, operating systems and apps, precise instructions are not possible in this context. Someone would have to write a whole book about it (which is already available on the market). Let’s be honest; Would you read (and understand) this?

      The people at Swisscom just want to give suggestions to discover further functions of a smartphone. Understanding a function helps much more than just following instructions. A portion of curiosity, a little courage and the will to do it, that’s all you need to use your smartphone in a variety of ways.

      What’s so difficult about sliding an app onto another app on your smartphone or a suitable widget onto another suitable widget with your finger? And now you have an app group or a widget stack. A suitable smartphone is of course a prerequisite.

    I’m not an all-knowing professor, on the contrary.

    Take the Widget Stacks section, for example. I really can’t get out of this. You could make your own blog post out of this. Then you have to show examples and demonstrate the steps one by one.

    And certainly not like this: "Android: Google “Discover” or Samsung “Smart Widgets” offer similar functions that can be accessed via the widget menu. The principle is the same: you can combine widgets with each other."

    If you don’t want to collect users, then you have to do it exactly like that.

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    Hello @Chaziosse19

    Given the variety of devices, operating systems and apps, precise instructions are not possible in this context. Someone would have to write a whole book about it (which is already available on the market). Let’s be honest; Would you read (and understand) this?

    The people at Swisscom just want to give suggestions to discover further functions of a smartphone. Understanding a function helps much more than just following instructions. A portion of curiosity, a little courage and the will to do it, that’s all you need to use your smartphone in a variety of ways.

    What’s so difficult about sliding an app onto another app on your smartphone or a suitable widget onto another suitable widget with your finger? And now you have an app group or a widget stack. A suitable smartphone is of course a prerequisite.

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    Lesen, was auf dem Bildschirm steht.

    @Chaziosse19

    Well, I really can’t quite follow… If you made a huge blog post about every little function everywhere? For what too? Everyone uses their device differently and has different requirements and needs.

    Little tip… If you are interested in a certain area and there hasn’t been enough written about it in detail in this blog, there is a little trick. It’s called Google. You can search for just about anything there and I’m sure there are much more detailed instructions and soooo many YouTube videos etc. about specific settings, procedures and tips and tricks depending on the device. It’s basically that simple 😉

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    Yes, of course, there is Google, there are books for dummies, and sometimes there are computer games for seniors.

    But if you want to address hundreds of blog readers, you might as well do the right thing when explaining. Just throwing out a few Gutzelis isn’t enough for me.

    When I was still working as a programmer, we had a word for creating short, incomprehensible and undocumented program code: machocoding. Here we could call the situation macho blogging.

    Actually, I just wanted to give a quick thumbs down.

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    @Chaziosse19

    I just looked at the article, especially the topic you mentioned, widgets. The most important things are written briefly and concisely. I didn’t see an error.

    If you’re not well-versed in the subject, it’s possible that you don’t understand the whole thing properly, I can completely understand that, but… Even then again… you can search for the cell phone you’re using on Google or YouTube to find out how to do that. Samsung or Apple in particular have tons of instructions or videos, including about widgets. Last but not least, you can also ask the community here. Of course we’re happy to help, that’s what we’re here for. This topic is now turning a mosquito into an elephant.

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