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[Apparelyzed]

Spinal Injuries Association (SIA) launches its new iPhone/iPad app

SIA is pleased to announce the launch of its free information App for iPad and iPhone. The App is a quick-reference guide to SIA’s wide range of services and activities, and contains a number of links back to our website where additional information can be found. This is the first in what we hope will be a series of useful Apps for spinal cord injured people, their family and friends, and anyone with an interest in the work of SIA so if you have an iPad or iPhone we would encourage you to visit your App store and download your copy today.

Here's a link to get you started http://itunes.apple....61707?ls=1&mt=8

Our thanks to Method & Class (SIA’s web developers) for helping us to deliver this latest development and we hope that our members and others will take the opportunity to have SIA information at their fingertips by virtue of this modern-day method of communication. Unfortunately for reasons of cost, the app is only available for the Ipad/Iphone platform at this time.

[greybeard]

Is that any more useful than just opening the SIA web site on any smart phone?

[Apparelyzed]

Err... not really, but I guess it's more of a marketing tool than anything.

I guess it saves you trawling through the website for the most frequently accessed pages.

Simon

[biggdoggpa]

Greybeard do you have an iphone or ipad? the experience is second to nothing!! (in the smart phone computer world anyway lol)

[greybeard]

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Greybeard do you have an iphone or ipad? the experience is second to nothing!! (in the smart phone computer world anyway lol)

Nope. Don't have the shekels to spare. Having said that, I use my phone for outgoing calls only, so see no justification for spending five or six times the price I paid, just to make four or five calls a year. For internet access I quite happily use my desktop.

Edited by greybeard, 17 November 2011 - 11:27 AM.

[biggdoggpa]

greybeard, on 17 November 2011 - 11:26 AM, said:

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Greybeard do you have an iphone or ipad? the experience is second to nothing!! (in the smart phone computer world anyway lol)

Nope. Don't have the shekels to spare. Having said that, I use my phone for outgoing calls only, so see no justification for spending five or six times the price I paid, just to make four or five calls a year. For internet access I quite happily use my desktop.

lol great point!! i remember how simple life was without a cell phone and i miss it at times i have become so dependant on my cell phone it's scary lol

[wheelie182]

greybeard, on 17 November 2011 - 11:26 AM, said:

Nope. Don't have the shekels to spare. Having said that, I use my phone for outgoing calls only, so see no justification for spending five or six times the price I paid, just to make four or five calls a year. For internet access I quite happily use my desktop.

But what if you want to go on-line in the toilet?

I thought the same before picking up a "smart phone". Didn't think I'd ever use the internet on it that much, but its extremely handy, and with so many websites now having a mobile device interface, its so much better.

[greybeard]

wheelie182, on 17 November 2011 - 11:33 AM, said:

greybeard, on 17 November 2011 - 11:26 AM, said:

Nope. Don't have the shekels to spare. Having said that, I use my phone for outgoing calls only, so see no justification for spending five or six times the price I paid, just to make four or five calls a year. For internet access I quite happily use my desktop.

But what if you want to go on-line in the toilet?

I thought the same before picking up a "smart phone". Didn't think I'd ever use the internet on it that much, but its extremely handy, and with so many websites now having a mobile device interface, its so much better.

I confess I never have that problem. I need to concentrate too much while on the toilet!

Mine is a pay-as-you-go smart phone, and initially I used it as it came out of the box. But when I started running out of credit every few days, I realised I really didn't need to have a Google Map showing me how far I'd got round the block while walking the dogs, and all the other things it was doing behind the scenes, so I turned them all off.

Now it's just a plain old phone again. I can't give out the number to anyone, even if I wanted to. I've no idea what it is. And that is just the way I like it.

[wheelie182]

Don't you have wifi? Come grey beard, get with the times! Next you'll be telling me you still own a pager.