My cell service costs $30/month.
Posted on 03/28/2022 5:26:37 PM PDT by blam
Ipad on WiFi.
I don’t know what that is. But the Linux community is very big and very forthcoming with advice.
We’re still using the original version we started with years ago. Works for everything we do - which admittedly isn’t anything very complex, but we’ve never had a problem.
I wonder if someone will put talk to text and a better camera in a dumbphone.
You are most certainly welcome.
Never had a activated Smart Phone but a brother in the Lord gave me a Samsung S6 which I could use Google voice with as far as our wirelss signal would go (not far!), ther than that I used is as a camera, like for the garden pics here. But the battery decreased to the point that it was only good for about 4 minutes. So I watched some vids on replacing the battery, and bought one for $15 - and broke the phone trying to put it in.
All I have now is a couple old Blackberry devices, best one looks like a 8900. Trying to see if it will take a charge now after many years so I can use the camera. Pray and press.
I miss my Nextel phone, it was great.
Thx
And just FYI - the brand of the mini-pc in question is 'Kamrui'.
And yes, it is made in China. And sold by Amazon among many others.
Thanks. Husband makes all these decisions, but I’ll show him this.
So, I have an older HP laptop that was drowning in MS Win7 and to try to squeeze more life out of it I wiped it and brought it back to life as a Linux machine on Ubuntu 20, and whatever kernel was current — 5 point something.
All was well until there was a kernel update.
After the update all I could get was a black screen, so I had to interrupt the boot and tell it to use to older version of the kernel, and then it would be fine.
A few weeks later, there was another little update, and then everything was fine, and I could boot to the current kernel, once again.
Happiness.
Then that same sequence happened again, and this time I tried to do more to enable the machine to run with the newest kernel, and botched something up to where it’s not able to boot at all. So, it’s an experimental thing I’m getting a Linux education out of, but not otherwise very useful, at the moment.
Bkmk
Well, someone will probably come along who understands this and may help.
All I know is that we’ve never had a problem. We have ‘Mint’ on both the desktop and laptop. And again - we don’t do much that’s very complicated.
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.
Somebody posted a joke a while back:
A man heard his kids complaining about losing their phones. He said, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if someone invented a phone that was wired into the wall, so you’d never lose it?’
(You didn’t have to charge it, either...and the sound quality was great compared with cellphones.)
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.
Can it be tracked without a SIM card. Wondering.
#17 You have to be able to dance the Jitterbug like these two... : )
Debbie Reynolds does the jitterbug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDVOF3uYhEU
My cell service costs $30/month.
What is the capacity of the hard drive or does it use a solid state memory?
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