Touch Screen Phones

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Does anyone face scrolling with your thumb in FB accidently, the cursor freezes on someone status and then goes on to stiffen on somone and then you poke them or add as a friend unintentional? How can this be prevented?
 
Umm... be more careful next time?

We all make mistakes one way or another when it comes to technological devices. :)
 
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VamPyroX said:
Umm... be more careful next time?

We all make mistakes one way or another when it comes to technological devices. :)
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Yes, that's true about mistakes. For example, in Twitter a friend said why did I retweet? I said, I did? The thumb scrolling must have hit the retweet without me knowing it.
 
In just 24 hours with my new phone, I accidently dialed 2 different people when I was merely trying to add them to my contact list. I'm trying to figure out how to turn off the ability to do that because I don't want to get charged. (I don't have a voice plan at all, so I get charged .25 cents a minute. I did stop the call immediately, but I might already have .50 cents on my next bill.) I may need to stop in at Verizon and ask if there's a way to turn it off because I can't see any way for the life of me how on my phone, and I went to Verizon's website to look too - no luck there.

So I totally get what you mean by accidentally doing stuff! :)
 
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I don't feel so bad thought it was just me doing this kind of stuff lol I had similiar thing happen to me as well. Touch screen is nice but at times its not.
 
What phone are you using?

Don't most phones take you to the dial-out screen before you actually proceed with the dialing? For instance, you "accidentally" click on a phone number to dial it and it takes you to the dial-out screen... then all you have to do is press the CALL key.
 
Yep happened to me too, I entered the security codes to unlock, and I hit the wrong button for "Emergency Call", quickly hit the X or <- and then turn power off that to prevent a 911 center detecting my phone GPS.
 
AlleyCat said:
In just 24 hours with my new phone, I accidently dialed 2 different people when I was merely trying to add them to my contact list. I'm trying to figure out how to turn off the ability to do that because I don't want to get charged. (I don't have a voice plan at all, so I get charged .25 cents a minute. I did stop the call immediately, but I might already have .50 cents on my next bill.) I may need to stop in at Verizon and ask if there's a way to turn it off because I can't see any way for the life of me how on my phone, and I went to Verizon's website to look too - no luck there.

So I totally get what you mean by accidentally doing stuff! :)
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Can you ask your provider to block calls? I was able to with mine. It will refuse incoming and outgoing calls so cannot accidentally call out.
 
Depending on your platform there are ways to block outgoing calls, apps exist for android which require a confirmation pin before dialing. As I can't hear I have all calls blocked. It is too easy to press a contact the wrong way and dial instead of view, or SMS or whatever.
 
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VamPyroX said:
What phone are you using?

Don't most phones take you to the dial-out screen before you actually proceed with the dialing? For instance, you "accidentally" click on a phone number to dial it and it takes you to the dial-out screen... then all you have to do is press the CALL key.
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I have the Motorola Cliq. Its a touch screen for just about everything. It's possessed! It makes phantom calls when it wants to.
 
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