Android Guide for Ol' Folks?
 

My mom's been wanting an 'iPhone' for ages but it turns out that she thought that was an all-encompassing term for smartphones.

So I got her a new Nexus S and it'll be arriving to her in a day or two. In the meantime, I want to know if anyone here can recommend a good guide exists to teach older people about Android. It can be a website, PDF or a book.

It just needs to be simple, easy to understand and with big pictures/easy to read diagrams.

Any thoughts?

Sit down and show them how it works is honestly the best way.

Android personally is far easier to use and learn than ios

I agree, Android is very simple and intuitive to use. My wife is tech-illiterate and she managed to figure out her phone and tablet after a few weeks.

It will be easier (for her) if you just show here the basic functions first. It will be immensely frustrating for you though lol. My nearly 70 year old grandmother got a galaxy S2 after only having flip phones and she managed to catch on after a few weeks. Now she's using voxer, voice recognition, apps, etc... Also, hide all of the useless stock apps/bloatware in a folder so that there are less things on the screen. Start with the basics of contacts / phone calls / texts.

I near drove a knife through my abdomen teaching my dad Windows Phone 7 lol.

But I guess nothing beats sitting down and giving a proper demo. I'll just have to re-learn Android since I haven't meaningfully used it since 2.1.

I got my mother the same phone. She's had cellphones for decades but can now finally text.

She knows how to use Windows 7 so I simply showed her the "taskbar", "system tray", "All programs menu" and any other similarities.

She picked it up pretty quick and now has a 10.2 tab to go with it.

Windows Mobile is an absolute bitch to learn compared to Android. It'll be a cakewalk.

In my opinion Windows 7.5 looks way easier than Android, maybe because of the cleaner interface.