My cell service costs $30/month.
I've never bought a cell phone before. The only two I've ever had were given to me.
Talking on the phone and voice text is all I need. No pictures even. Any suggestions?
If nothing else, an iPhone SE. About $429, and it’s 5G, so you’ll be able to use it anywhere. The iPhone is also better at protecting your privacy, which seems to have upset lots of big players, like Facebook. Just make sure it’s the current generation, and not an SE 2020 or older.
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I so miss my old flip phone. It didn’t work with higher Gs.
I always had it with me at all times because it fit in my pockets. Now, I have to remember where I last put the darn smartphone. Hate them.
You can buy a phone at Amazon. I bought my Samsung S10+ with 6.5” screen last Sept 2021 for $254.99
It said it might have slight scratches but it was perfect.
I wanted a phone that was loud and this one is. I had a LG model. They no longer are making phones but I like their layout.
I also have a bluetooth headset that I use when I am on a call as I hate holding the phone.
Many version of the S10 so do a search on models, screen size etc. Also you can buy at Ebay.
I sell electronics at Walmart. We still sell plenty of flip phones, mostly to older people.
My cell service costs $30/month.
I think the one thing that would be hard to live without would be Google Maps for travelling and avoiding traffic jams, and the camera
Same with my softball team, notifying them of practices or what not. I hate having to make an actual phone call to those who only have land lines...
I’m looking at the Unihertz Titan Pocket, and the Unihertz Titan:
People did not take photos of their food at restaurants back then. People also did not back up to the edge of Grand Canyon so they could get that "selfie". In fact, if you said you were taking a selfie back in the 1980s, people just assumed you were playing with yourself.
Those were the good old simple days. You shot your roll of film and then went to the Fotomat at the strip mall, a tiny little building in the middle of the parking lot, and you filled out a long white envelope with all your pertinent information, dropped the film into the envelope, sealed it and dropped it into a big box with a slot on it (if it was after hours).
Five days later you would show up to collect your developed photos only to be told that they weren't ready yet. So you went to the arcade, played a few games of PacMan and went home.
A few days later, your photos were ready and you paid the disinterested clerk the seven dollars and went through your photos in the car. Out of the 15 or so photos, two or three were of total blackness, three or four were all blurry and if you were lucky, you got about a half a dozen keepers that you would eventually insert into the plastic sleeve of a photo album and carefully print out a sentence or two about who was in the picture and where it was taken.
More likely however, you wrapped the photos in a rubber band and put them aside in a desk drawer for sorting out later. Eventually, they ended up stored in cardboard boxes up in your attic. Go ahead, go check them out. They are probably still there today.
