{"id":22747,"date":"2026-04-17T08:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/how-do-i-end-a-call-the-elderly-japanese-people-determined-to-master-smartphones\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:37:19","slug":"how-do-i-end-a-call-the-elderly-japanese-people-determined-to-master-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/how-do-i-end-a-call-the-elderly-japanese-people-determined-to-master-smartphones\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018How do I end a call?\u2019: the elderly Japanese people determined to master smartphones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elderly people take advantage of courses on how to navigate mobile devices and avoid \u2018analogue isolation\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not only young people whose gaze is fixed on tiny screens. But for these users in Tokyo, clicking and scrolling is anything but second nature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t deal with all of the apps that jump out at me,\u201d says one. \u201cHow do I know if I\u2019ve definitely ended a call?\u201d asks another.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/apr\/17\/japanese-over-70s-mobile-master-smartphones\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/867a94eb317c3dfbe1151b234c2acc01aeaf51f2\/218_0_2565_2052\/master\/2565.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=61129139326548c9b82b985cc947eba5\" title=\"\u2018How do I end a call?\u2019: the elderly Japanese people determined to master smartphones\" \/>Elderly people take advantage of courses on how to navigate mobile devices and avoid \u2018analogue isolation\u2019<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not only young people whose gaze is fixed on tiny screens. But for these users in Tokyo, clicking and scrolling is anything but second nature.<br \/>\n\u201cI can\u2019t deal with all of the apps that jump out at me,\u201d says one. \u201cHow do I know if I\u2019ve definitely ended a call?\u201d asks another. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elderly people take advantage of courses on how to navigate mobile devices and avoid \u2018analogue isolation\u2019 It\u2019s not only young people whose gaze is fixed on tiny screens. But for these users in Tokyo, clicking and scrolling is anything but second nature. \u201cI can\u2019t deal with all of the apps that jump out at me,\u201d &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/how-do-i-end-a-call-the-elderly-japanese-people-determined-to-master-smartphones\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018How do I end a call?\u2019: the elderly Japanese people determined to master smartphones<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22747"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}