Posted on 03/28/2022 5:26:37 PM PDT by blam
Can you believe it? I am now avant garde!
It hard to find traditional dumb phones now. I hope this report creates more of a market for them, and more of them become available.
I have an old TracFone, aka CrapFone. My sister has one too, and it recently stopped working when her city switched on 5G. I’m out in the boonies, so no 5G yet. I’ve been thinking of switching to a Walmart phone. Are they the cheapest? I only need it for the rare emergency and when traveling by car — in case I need to call AAA. What is the absolute cheapest option? Perhaps a “burner” phone?
$99.00, tempting to me too.
I have the Kyocera flip phone.
It’s heavy and bigger than some others but I like the way it works much better.
A Verizon store should have a display model.
I use a smartphone w/o a SIM card as a transistor [internet] radio.
It does seem to have a few more transistors than the compact, portable radios of the 60’s.
Tracfones are still around $20 for 3 months service, if just needed rarely.
Plenty of deals on newer phones.
I can, and do use the screen keyboards on an Apple IPAD,
and an Amazon Fire HD7 Android tablet just fine.
But they are bigger. And I don't like 'stabbing at ants'
with a stylus pen on a phone either.
Just picture Fred Flintstone trying to use the teeny-weeny
keyboard on the screen of a cell phone - that's me.
Thx
I’m a Luddite who agrees with you.
We see so many errors from people using phones to post; lots of times people don’t even see entire emails on their phone, because they ‘assume’ they’ve seen all they need on the first ‘page’; and I even prefer an old fashioned desk-top - don’t know how anyone really WORKS on a laptop.
“I even prefer an old fashioned desk-top”
I use my laptop to fight my way to a local Linux Desktop....
I have a basic Nokia candy bar. I only have it because my job requires that I have a cell phone. For actually calling people I use my land line. My cell service costs $100 per year.
We use Linux, and haven’t missed MS at all.
The only problem is that some things have to use Windows - like certain craft machines, sewing machine apps, etc.
But that’s the only reason I’ve ever considered getting a cheap laptop that runs Windows.
My Nokia candy bar was $40 and the battery lasts about 8 days and charges in an hour.
My Nokia candy bar is 4g and cost $40. The battery lasts 8 days and charges in an hour.
A couple of decades ago I was very excited about the possibility of technology to give people greater freedom and security.
That dream is stone dead—Big Tech and Big Government killed it.
I am a Luddite now.
I recommend that you not buy an Android phone. Android has an infinite number of infuriating ways to not do whatever you want it to do.
I would totally get a
Nokia 225 | Unlocked | 4G Cell Phone | Black
if it had hotspot capability.
The laptop runs Win7 which is needed to run Diagnostic CAN interfaces to various cars hanging about the compound.
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