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   Steve Hayes to Big Al   
   Re: The World Still Loves Windows XP 15    
   13 Apr 17 05:00:26   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:31:11 -0400, Big Al  wrote:   
      
   >On 04/11/2017 11:59 PM, tlvp wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 22:18:22 -0400, nospam wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> In article , Steve Hayes   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> With my current Android phone, which is one of those keypadless   
   >>>> wonders, it took me two weeks to discover how to answer it when it   
   >>>> rang.   
   >>>   
   >>> the answer button on the screen was not obvious enough??   
   >>   
   >> What part of the OP's description (yeah, you snipped it, but still ...)   
   >>   
   >> : ... when I pick it up or take it out of   
   >> : my pocket when it's ringing, I often touch something that makes the   
   >> : "ringing" screen disappear ...   
   >>   
   >> didn't convey to you that there was no "answer button on the screen" to be   
   >> seen by the time OP's phone was out and ready to be used?   
   >>   
   >> Cheers, -- tlvp   
   >>   
   >+1   
   >I always make sure the phone is out of my pocket on a table or in the   
   >cup holder in the car so I don't slide it out.   A touch screen in a   
   >pocket is the wrong place.   
      
   Thus making it easy for a smash 'n grab thief to nick it.   
      
   But even picking it up off the table is often enough to make the   
   answer screen disappear.   
      
      
   --   
   Steve Hayes   
   http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm   
   http://khanya.wordpress.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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