Posted on 11/26/2014 11:34:56 AM PST by House Atreides
Right now is the single best time of the year to buy a smartphone.
It may sound like something you’d read in a weekly circular, but it’s true: All the smartphone makers have released their best wares in preparation for the big holiday buying season. Some can be found at their lowest prices, especially this Friday and Monday.
And for anyone worrying about something better coming along right away, don’t. The next major phone launch isn’t until the spring.
Now there’s just this teeny-tiny problem of picking one of the seemingly identical black big-screened slabs. Choose wrong and you’ll be stuck with a dud of a phone for the next two years. Happy holidays!
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Lumia 1520 Windows Phone!
For cheapscates like me, there is the “bring your own phone” at Tracfone. You can buy a used Verizon Iphone 4 or 4S on Ebay and activate it as a Tracfone. Be sure it is not Icloud locked and has clean ESN
I miss the simplistic Rotary Dial and the Party line.
My favorite part was having to sit just 8 feet from the wall for however many hours you were on the phone.
Word of caution about iPhones on Tracfone networks.
You may have a good deal of difficulty getting them to connect to cellular data, and the photo send and receive feature may not work at all.
You only have to alter the APN settings and it will work fine.
All Verizon Iphones (5 and below) are sim-unlocked.
That means you can put a compatible sim card in it and it will work for Trac or Straight Talk (which are the same company) on the GSM network (aka ATT or T-Mobile).
You can use a Verizon Iphone 5 on the CDMA network (a.k.a Verizon’s network) under Straight Talk (ST), but you’ll be limited to 3G speeds for data.
Uhh, no.
There are issues. I’ve been down all the roads and this particular phone won’t do pictures. Eventually got the data to work, thogh.
For later.
Go back a little further and you would have had to get an operator to connect you to your party. For those on a 13 party line as I once was there were a series of rings, like 3 longs and two shorts, that you cranked to get your neighbor to pick up the phone, no matter what ring you cranked you could count on 12 people picking up.
FReeping on my 2 year old Droid RAZR M right now. Usually need to charge the battery at night. Its a great phone and I hate to replace/upgrade. It will soon be time though.
Dinosaurs had phones?
I’ve been eyeing one myself.
I really want one of those, just for the camera. But ATT has very bad coverage here, so I got the Icon from Verizon. It’s a nice unit.
“I miss the simplistic Rotary Dial and the Party line.”
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I remember that when my wife was carrying our now 19 year old son with a high-risk pregnancy and was home with doctored ordered “bed rest”, I went out and RENTED A BEEPER as a way of being constantly available if needed.
My, have times changed.
In 1980, at Big Bear Lake, we still had to use the operator to call out.
I bought a new iPad air recently but it has been freezing so I took it to the Apple Store this morning. While I was there the gal says...is that a 5? We’ll give you $200 for it. I said how much is 6 plus? She said $299. I said deal!
Paid $100 for my new 6 plus and love it.
How do you know when you lived in a small town? When you only needed 4 digits to dial any local phone (Beaufort SC 1965!) I don't think that exists any more as I believe that all phone computers require a minimum 7 digit number for connection!
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