and I imagine I use my cell phone for more than you do.

about it! Loved my iPhone. Before.

A classic example of fixing things that weren't broken. For example, I have yet to figure out how all those new icon & button styles are making my life better, or how the extra steps with the security code in order to make an outgoing call or look at my calendar are an improvement.

because the direction needed to swipe is designed for right-handed people.

Amen

people die younger - every time the hospital calls to tell us they found a donor, we hang up on them.

I forced myself to be right handed. I feel it has saved my life on many occasion. It has also given me several advantages.

Baseball - Nothing pisses a pitcher off more than me switching up half way through my at bat.
Guitar - I have a wider selection of guitars available to me.
Scissors - Nuff said.

Here is what the phone manufacturers should do... Make it an option to be able to swipe the other way. I'm guessing it would be a 2 second software fix.

largely ambidextrous. I think most left-handed people are - what choice do we have? Most kitchen knives are single-edged - for righties. Scissor, ditto - except for those horrible green-handled safety scissors in elementary school that shredded rather than cut. Pre-drilled bowling balls (I didn't know this for years). DOORS (argh).

The world is designed for the majority. We adjust or die. The upside, as you say, is that in the end we have greater choice because of that adjustment.

What both of you said. I've had to do the same thing.

They should at least let us set it up to swipe it in the opposite direction.

On my Samsung android phone, I was able to set a press on the home button to also answer calls.

I found it under Phone (app) -> Call Settings -> Answering/ending calls -> 'The home key answers calls'. There is also an option to have the power button hang up calls.

Android phone. Thanks!

I've already made the change!

running up the hall to the kitchen to answer the one phone in the house before there was voicemail or caller ID in order to catch a call that you were waiting for it does seem like a minor inconvenience.

I never even try to answer the phone if I'm in the shower or doing other things in the bathroom. Let the caller leave a message.

Before voicemail, there was this miraculous device called an answering machine. Oh, wait...I still have one of those on my landline. It screens my calls for me.

Couple of apps....

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.digia.easyanswer

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hardrock.smartanswercall&hl=en

I like the shaky idea to answer.

... as in Costanza.

It must have been interesting to you, as well, since you took the time to read the post and reply to it. Thanks for the kick!

It won't be "way more complex than you need," will be answerable with the push of a physical button, and will save you money because you won't be paying for a required data plan you don't use. Seems like a no-brainer.

so she could review apps for it for one of her clients. I had a nifty Samsung flip phone on a by-the-minute plan. But, we dropped that and added the Android to her contract and swapped numbers so she'd have her old number, which is her business number. I got the new number, which is fine, because almost nobody knows my number except her. My business is done over my landline number.

But, a good suggestion, even though it doesn't really apply to my situation.

Incidentaly, my new number was a re-issue of one that had been assigned to someone else, so when the phone is on, it gets lots of calls looking for whoever had that number before. Most have been from people wanting money from the deadbeat. I'm answering them and explaining that I'm not Eric and that they should stop calling me. It's working. I'm very persuasive, I guess. Eventually, they'll stop calling, I'm sure.

DU gets all kinds of discussions, each of which can be read or skipped as DUers browse through the website. It's a wonderful forum, I think, that way.

Thanks for kicking my first world problem thread!

It was just a joke.
Happy Holidays!

LEMEE AT YOU

sometime when I hang up, I want to properly hang up.

If you find a solution to avoid having to do that, please let me know. Better yet, I'll just Bookmark this thread and come back to see if there is a solution later. I miss my flip open phone. I had it set to if I opened it while it was ringing, it would just answer automatically. I pretended I was Scully or Mulder from X-Files. All those years, I wanted a flip phone so I could enjoy taking a phone call. The minute I got it, my mother bought this Android Crossover thingy that takes great pictures, but is too complicated to for no more than I use the cell phone.