Grandmother's Guide to Video Chat

Watch this brief video for an introduction of how to use Google video chat.

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[sonicmonkey123]

Do you have a guide for grandfathers?

[rednalbad]

Linux - PLEASE!

[Jung5659]

wait so you dont need computer?

[LeahNewYorkCity]

This is one of the only uninsulting disparagements of "grandma" that I've come across (check its google blog post). But most everywhere else, it's a different story. E.g., on google+, a circles how-to vid ends with keeping Aunt Ruth from seeing college pics. Fine. But how come not Uncle Hector? HOW COME IT'S ALWAYS THE OLDER WOMEN who need to be sidelined, or gently derided for their lack of online know-how? How come it's always "so easy your grandma could do it," rather than your dumb grandpa?

[VundaF]

Grandma is great.

[Filischi]

Great point megamanxu! I work on dfferent medias, and everything you said is correct about usability and smartphones. In the meantime I've seen what terrible disaster should generate a lovely granny without any knowledge of basic tecnology interactions. As said, i work with media, but I can't program them, i'm looking forward for interested developers. The original idea remains, if a great comporation (Google) could produce a dedicated device (Motorola?), I think the market should be giant!

[megamanxu]

and i think your idea of having a phone just to do that is correct, but you can now program, with a bit of knowledge, a smartphone to do just that, no need to wait for google to make a different android or phone to do it. you dont even have to lock the other apps, there are phones with custom android versions that will let you have basically only one app, and only one homescreen, and really there's nothing much to click when you have something like that, and nothing to mess up on.

[megamanxu]

@Filischi smartphones have much simpler os layout than a computer, and you cant really mess up too much by clicking the wrong thing, and even if you do, you can always just click home and everything will be back to normal, unlike windows where u have to wait for the program to open then you will have to exit it to go out into the main os. also you can program the phone to only have one app, like skype, gtalk, or yahoo messenger. and all grandma have to do is click on the ONLY icon and she's done

[Filischi]

@megamanxu Hi megamanxu, thank you for your answer!

The question is: a Granma really has the skills to interact with a smartphone? I got two grandmothers, and both can just use their simple mobile phone to do calls, and for them is impossibile to learn to send an sms or save a contact in the address book.

What I'd like to have is a smartphone that simply allows to do videochat with the contacts online. All other apps should be looked, to avoid acidental mistakes. What do you think about?

[megamanxu]

@Filischi it's called the nexus s... lmao jk, but gtalk is auto enabled and set up in android already so need for a dedicated phone lol. or just buy her a chrome book

[megamanxu]

@FpsDude619 this doesn't slow down your comp by being a stand by application