I want one of these. Apparently real.
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).
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
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 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.
Rd later.
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.
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 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.
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.
Anyone finding this FORCED SHIFT to 4G and 5G, SHUTTING DOWN 3G, results in worse coverage and signal ?
5G maybe a step forward in the inner city, BUT 3G is, now was, better in rural areas. I have worse calls, dropping calls, gibberish audio being forced off 3G.
I want one of these. Apparently real.
I’d love to have my “dumb phone” back (I called it my GeezerPhone), but was told it wouldn’t work after the 3G shutdown. I bought an inexpensive Nokia smart phone, but just don’t use many features—calls, and the occasional text.
I’m going in the opposite direction. I’m looking at trading in my iPhone 2020 for an iPhone 13 or 14.