Posted on 12/22/2017 7:09:07 AM PST by A Cyrenian
Wanted the Note7 but their battery issues made it impossible. I settled on the S7 Edge as its screen was a little bigger than the standard S7.
Very happy with Samsung and Android in general.
LG tribute 49 bucks.prepaid virgin. Unlimited data(first 6 gb is 4g)..inlimited text...unlimited minutes...35 bucks a month....5 inch screen..drawbacks...Virgin...owned by sprint and is migrating to iphone only...and sprint towers arent everywhere yet...i live in lousy area for phone coverage so even verizon aint that great..i phones r very good...but apple is tooooooo controlling...some company gonna come up with game changer and apple might become the next Dumont.
Yes, you do appear to be new. And likely not long for this place either, I’d wager.
An old flip phone here with big keys, and only because my invalid wife uses a walker. My daughter thinks I’m a troglodyte.
Remember paying $0.10 for a phone call and reading maps and books? A new smart phone and data plan costs as much as a mortgage used to.
A straight telephone that happens to work on the cell network, It makes calls only. Does not “do” Facef*ck or Twit. No games, no nothing. It is a damn PHONE!
Droid Turbo II that I just paid off. So now Verizon is bugging me to ‘upgrade’. I don’t have any reason to, I’m quite happy with this one. Seems the selling point for the ‘upgrades’ they offer is faster gaming speed. Well, I don’t play games, and I don’t spend all day with my face buried in my phone.
I’ve never been crazy about talking on the telephone, so except for emergencies/traveling on public trans. and calling cabs, etc, there’s no reason for me to use it.
It drives me nuts to be in the grocery store or on the street and hear people on their phones - sometimes talking about pretty personal stuff; and seeing people drive poorly because they’re wrapped up in a phone conversation that could surely wait.
I think we’re all going nuts.
I have a older LG G3 phone with a 5.5” screen that came out in 2014. My co-worker has a new Samsung S8
We installed the app called CPU-Z and it showed the same screen 534ppi with mine slightly higher, and cpu’s (4) running at the about the same speed.
I bought mine at $200 at Ebay 2 years ago and he bought his at $800+ this year.
I have been with Tracfone forever. Just bought my 3rd phone fro them a 4G LTE LG Premier. 50 bucks. Reconditioned. Looks brand new. They have a decent selection of new and used phones. If you buy a phone from them you get triple minutes for life. So I spend 19.99 every 3 months and have more minutes, texts and data than I can ever use. They pile up too. Got a really nice hard case online for about 7 bucks.
I just use mine for immediate contact as in ‘yes, no, later, bye’ I don’t get into a gabfest.
Me too, tracfone and LG. Which app do you use for the radio??
TuneIn. It’s free for a lot of talk radio. If you want lots of sports and music, there’s a premium plan.
Had a Moto E basic smartphone for 2 years. It was okay, except that changing the battery required a technician.
I recently got an LG Rebel 2. It has a replaceable battery, is rather light in weight, and seems to have long life on recharges.
I don’t use a lot of the built-in apps.
The one difference: Moto E has a little light that would blink on missed calls, messages and voicemails. LG doesn’t have such a signalling capability.
I am also on TracFone and make few calls. I do occasionally use features that access my wifi, rather than 4G.
I’ll check it out thanks.
All four equipment is apple. I was an apple bot from 1986 to 2000 and let my wife and daughter talk me into a Micron computer running ME from MS.
When the iPhone 4 or that generation came out, I was buying an iMac and iPad. So i went all apple because of “platform and OS considerations” like bringing up,e-mail and seeing everything on each piece of equipment. One of the best phones I had was an HTC Incredible.
Don’t know if the same platform or oS is an issue any more. Maybe easy to mix and match.
Last word. The phones are so sophisticated and I am not, that it probably doesn’t much matter what phone I buy next.
I’ve had every single one of those phones! Ugh, I’m old
#27 thanks for the tip for extra warranty coverage.
Here are more plans from Walmart.
https://tinyurl.com/ybzqg9l2
I have Straight Talk and it suits me fine. After several years of using an old model smart phone with a pull out keyboard, they sent me an older Samsung for free, no doubt because it is more efficient with bandwith. At home, I use an Amazon Fire HD10 tablet for casual browsing instead of my smart phone.
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