$240.00 16 GB
Posted on 03/28/2022 5:26:37 PM PDT by blam
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?
I gots to have FR on my phone, I would go nuts if I couldn’t read and make sarcastic quips while eating breakfast.
I’ve had a TracPhone flip phone from Walmart for years, best $9.99 ever spent with free upgrades (they sent a replacement phone for one I lost then another one when they went to 4G both free).
As two-factor identity testing has risen, it really does create the possibility of un-personing beyond just debanking. You can be separated from not only your ability to pay but all of your accounts in a single move by just a few companies.
Cutting these people off until they get some manners, may be a necessity.
Can you text on a Trac phone?
Unfortunately not really an option in the US.
3g is gone, 2g is questionable.
If the 3310 was 4g capable, or if I could find a decent flip I would have one. I look every 6 months to see if I can get something.
If this was $99 I think they might sell a lot
https://www.amazon.com/Punkt-MP02-Factory-Unlocked-Smartphone/dp/B07ML3ZHT4
But
Yes, I do it when necessary - you’re punching in each individual letter using the keypad. I’ve gotten pretty good at it but I tell folks not to sent me text messages though.
No phone, no pool, no pets; ain’t got no cigarettes.
It’s true.
Personal computers are what to use for all the rest of it -
email, texting, video chat, web browsing, playing music,
reading/posting on FR, plotting the trajectories of
inbound & outbound ICBMs, etc....
Okay, call me a Luddite, if you must...
(A retired software engineer Luddite.)
I’ve had a smartphone for several years now and don’t need all the apps that come with it. I deleted most of them and don’t miss them at all.
Think of it as a portable supercomputer that also makes phone calls.
I had a nice little Trac-phone flip phone. It was all I needed. Easy to operate as I do not text.
Then they said I needed to upgrade as 3G was closing down.
So I upgraded to another low cost 4G flip phone. What a monster! Not at all easy like my cheap flip phone.
Keyboard gives me fits! It does have Google, something I have no need for, and once I tried it out, I watched as it pulled my battery down, down down.
I can’t even buy air time on it so I took it back to the store where they put air time on it.
It is also about a third larger than my 3G flip phone!
Well I’ve got my ‘ancient’ i Phone, its an SE running IOS 6 and its small like the old 5S series. Many of my associates chuckle at me for using the older, smaller model but I dont care. It works, is durable and paid for long ago. I’m too addicted to FR, a few other sites plus I need to get work e mails on the run.
$240.00 16 GB
Rd later.
There are lots of phones that can use TracFone service. Go there and see what they are.
We’ve used them with Android phones for years. All we do is make phone calls, occasional texts, and sometimes I listen to radio. but they have all the capacity for data, internet, etc.
After purchase of the phones, our use comes to about 15.00 per month for each phone, and we have so many minutes, data and texts that we’ll never use them.
Not right for everyone, but works for us.
The only problem is that you lose everything you’ve saved up if you fail to renew when due.
Bump
Sunbeam Cellular—voice to text extra $3 per month, weather, location. No internet browser or picture transmission.
Only one technical support person at PureTalk knows
that this phone will work on an ATT network—no one else does.
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