As a smart phone user do you consider yourself as:

1. having no or very little abilities
2. having basic abilities
3. having sufficient abilities
4. having average abilities
5. having above average abilities
6. have advanced abilities

If you select 1 then ther is no need to read any further, unless you want to.

If you select 2 or above, read the rest of this page and make a note of each item you can not do or don't have knowledge of.

If you selected 4 or 5 continue to read the rest of this page as you may not be aware of what you dont no.

written specifically for Android phones but some may be applicable to iPhones.

Do you no how to learn how to use a smart phone?

Do you know:

1. what a smartphone is
2. what a computer is
3. what a desktop computer is
4. what a laptop computer is
5. what an iPhone is
6. what an Android phone is
7. the difference between a tablet and a phone
8. the difference between a landline phone and a mobile phone
9. the difference between non smartphone and a smartphone
10. what gestures are
11. what a SIM card is
12. what are micro SD card is
13. what an app is
14. what a widget is
15. the names given to each of the appropriate screens
16. what effects settings have
17. what a web browser is
18. What Bluetooth is
19. What Wifi is
20. What GPS is

Do you know how to:

1. switch on your smartphone
2. switch off your smartphone
3. switch the screen on an off
4. turn the volume up and down
5. charge your smartphone
6. lock and unlock your smartphone
7. install and change SIM cards
8. install and change a micro SD card
9. use your phone's fingerprint recognition

Do you know how to:

1. hold your phone without touching the screen
2. touch the screen
3. long touch the screen
4. swipe the screen
5. swipe a specific part of the screen
6. slide on the screen
7. pinch the screen in and out
8. multi finger gestures
9. shake the phone
10. rotate the phone
11. place the phone face down
12. use the phone's camera to perform functions
13. use the phone's finger sensor to perform functions
14. tap the phone on other devices
15. use the back, home and recently used buttons

do you know what the result of using the above gestures will be?

do you know how to

1. answer an incoming call
2. not answer an incoming call
3. dial a phone number
4. make a phone call using contacts
5. make a phone call from within an app using the displayed number
6. answer a call while within another call
7. make a call while within another call
8. combined Calls
9. disconnect individuals from a conference call
10. use other apps whilst in a call

do you know how to

1. unlock your phone
2. lock your phone
3. use functions from the lock screen
4. set lock screen security functions
5. display contact information on lock screen in case phone is lost

do you know how to

1. move through home screens
2. start apps from the home screen
3. return to the home screen
4. move items on a home screen
5. move items to other home screens
6. remove items from home screens
7. add items to a home screen
8. the difference between apps and widgets
9. uninstall apps from the home screen
10. determine which home screen you are viewing

do you know how to

1. open the notification screen
2. close the notification screen
3. go from the notification screen to the app that provided the notification
4. remove individual items from the notification screen
5. remove all items from the notification screen
6. stop app notifications appearing

do you know how to

1. switch to the recently used app screen
2. exit the recently used app screen
3. switch to recently used app
4. quickly jump to the last used app
5. close an item on the recently used app screen
6. close all items on the recently used app screen

do you know how to

1. get to the settings screen
2. exit the setting screen
3. move through settings screens
4. find particular settings

do you know how to

1. open the quick settings screen
2. close a quick setting screen
3. use a quick setting
4. add an item to a quick setting screen
5. rearrange items on the quick setting screen
6. remove an item from list quick setting screen

do you know how to

1. access your phone's built-in file system
2. access your phone's file system app
3. find files
4. create files
5. create folders
6. copy and move files and folders
7. delete files and folders
8. move and copy files and folders to other devices and the cloud

do you know how to

1. activate the keyboard
2. close the keyboard
3. correct typing mistakes
4. type capital letters
5. type numbers and symbols
6. type emoticons
7. switch to a different language
8. select text
9. copy and move text
10. past text.
11. use glide typing
12. switch to voice typing
13. use a different keyboard
14. use computer keyboard functions like Ctrl,Alt, Home,End page up page down and arrow keys

do you know how to

1. activate voice control
2. deactivate voice control
3. use your voice to perform certain functions
4. determine which functions can be used with voice control

do you know how to

1. activate voice typing
2. deactivate voice typing
3. start using voice typing
4. stop using voice typing
5. use voice typing to put in punctuation
6. edit using voice typing
7. find out the functions of voice typing

do you know how to

1. start a web browser
2. stop a web browser
3. key in a web address
4. search for something
5. scroll through a webpage
6. go from links in a webpage
7. go back to the previous webpage
8. go forward to where you came back from
9. go to a recently used web page
10. call up a list of browsing history
11. go to a page in the history listing
12. bookmark a webpage
13. go to a bookmarked webpage
14. create bookmark folders
15. go to another web page without closing existing one (tabs)
16. see a list of opened tabs
17. go to a open tab
18. close an existing tab
19. close all tabs
20. download files
21. upload files
22. use incognito mode
23. reload the current web page
24. show the settings for the current web page
25. change the way your browser currently operates
26. sync to other services or devices
27. open pages in non mobile mode
28. search within a page
29. share the current page via another app
30. copy the current pages web address (URL)
31. edit the current page address
32. add the current page to the homescreen as an icon
33. select text on a page
34. copy text from a page
35. search on selected text within a page
36. search based on an image
37. download an image within a page

do you know how to

1. start the camera app
2. stop using the camera app
3. take a photo
4. review the lasts taken photo or video
5. delete the last taken photo or video
6. start recording a video
7. stop recording a video
8. use the various flash modes
9. use the various picture taking modes
10. install different camera apps
11. set the size and quality of videos and images
12. switch between the front and rear camera
13. share photos and videos via other apps

do you know how to

1. install apps
2. uninstall apps
3. find apps to install
4. disable an app
5. enable an app
6. force stop an app
7. find information about an app

do you know what

1. to do if what you are trying to do does not work
2. data is
3. how your phone works
4. how your phone use its battery
5. developer options are and how to use them
6. what apps can possibly do
7. how to develop and distribute apps

Again as a smart phone user do you consider yourself as:

1. having no or very little abilities
2. having basic abilities
3. having sufficient abilities
4. having average abilities
5. having above average abilities
6. have advanced abilities

Is your answer different from what it was when the question was first asked? If do why?

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