Posted on 08/31/2015 6:49:05 PM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country
I'm thinking of upgrading my cell phone. My car has Bluetooth but my phone can't even take pictures. So I see these phones with Bluetooth and along with that most say WiFi.
I have one of Sprints original contracts at $15 a month. Of course there is no internet. texting or whatever. So when a phone says WiFi what does that mean? Does the phone have some type of browser that can access a free WiFi independent of the phones phone software? Pardon my ignorance and thanks.
And I'm looking at used phones, new phones require me to drop my current account.
And you can accidently add words easily with fumbling with the little on screen keyboard like I did above adding the word call. LOL.
You need a 4K 65 inch TV hooked to your laptop . that’s What I’m on . Much less eye strain.
only $999.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00FJPO5O8/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new
Lessay u go into Starbucks:
They have a WiFi router, right?
Well your phone will connect to that:
Your photos, songs, or email will flow from and to the Starbucks free router.
You won’t have to use packets from your plan, for which u pay.
You could sit there all WEEK, mooching data from their router, and they wouldn’t mind.
True
What he really means is, barring public WiFi, you should steal your neighbors signal and his bandwidth. Assuming your neighbor is clueless enough to to leave his network open and vulnerable.
If you like the guy, you might want to let him know he should lock down his syste.
Now your talking.
I travel a lot and I have Boost Netgear; it’s the same size as a smart phone and ten devices can hook in to it. Runs $50/for 10Gig’s a month.
You probably know this but a smartphone that is not signed up for cellular service can still always call 911.
It’s US law that it be able to.
Primary thing to remember is that when using the WiFi capability you are no longer using your phone providers carrier line, thus no charge for the WiFi data link.
Take a look at various phone providers specials and refurbs. Boost is offering very good discounts on phone purchase prices as well as free month for first time subscribers.
I had picked up a refurb Blackberry Classic from Virgin Mobile for $18, worked perfectly until it dived into a mug of coffee. Slapstick bites once again.
WiFi is used with smart phones to access you home WiFi or public free WiFi. Smart phones will use cellular data for Internet access when no WiFi is available unless you turn the cellular data off.
Sorry anyone that partners with AARP is a non starter for me.
Good to know. Thank you.
Best phone you could get for a smart phone is the ASUS ZenFone.
For $300, you get a fully updated, unlocked (meaning you can use it with any provider) smart phone
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I have an unlimited data (no bandwidth cap) satellite internet access that is blazing fast (the tower is visible across a farm field behind my house). This internet access is distributed throughout our largish house with a quality wireless router.
My wife and I have smart phones that while we are at home (which is a lot of the time for us old geezers) are connected to the phone system through the home wifi created by the wireless router. This means that any and all data in/out of our phones drinks from that limitless internet-access pool.
We have the smallest data package that ATT offers. Our phones use it ONLY when we're away from the home place. We have never gone over the limits of that piddlin' little data package.
Oh, yes! I've had Ooma since March! Cut the land line and kept the phone number I've had for the past 25 years. Ooma's internet phone service is fantastic and cut my "ordinary" phone bill from $45/month down to $15/month, with tons more calling features.
And what happens when the internet goes down? Well, Ooma automatically forwards all calls to my cell phone, and the cell phone is now connected via ATT's network (the phone's smart enough to know when my wifi is down for some reason, and automatically switches to ATT's network).
“Consumer Cellular”
What is their service like .. and monthly cost, and do you have to buy another phone ..??
Sorry you’ll have to google them. Here is one review I found.
http://articles.courant.com/2013-05-18/business/hc-bottom-line-consumer-cellular-20130518_1_att-user-subscribers
Sorry, I thought you were a user.
And .. thanks, but I don’t “google”
The 802.11 family consists of a series of half-duplex over-the-air modulation techniques that use the same basic protocol. 802.11-1997 was the first wireless networking standard in the family, but 802.11b was the first widely accepted one, followed by 802.11a, 802.11g, 802.11n, and 802.ac. 802.11b and 802.11g use the 2.4 GHz ISM band, operating in the United States under Part 15 of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission Rules and Regulations. 802.11b and 802.11g control their interference and susceptibility to interference by using direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) and orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signaling methods, respectively. 802.11a uses the 5 GHz U-NII band, which, for much of the world, offers at least 23 non-overlapping channels rather than the 2.4 GHz ISM frequency band, where adjacent channels overlap. The segment of the radio frequency spectrum used by 802.11 varies between countries. In the US, 802.11a and 802.11g devices may be operated without a license, as allowed in Part 15 of the FCC Rules and Regulations. Frequencies used by channels one through six of 802.11b and 802.11g fall within the 2.4 GHz amateur radio band. Licensed amateur radio operators may operate 802.11b/g devices under Part 97 of the FCC Rules and Regulations.
I hope that answers your question.
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