Most memory? My emails are currently with time Warner with accounts that go back 30 years. I run two businesses out of email and phone currently, how do I make the switch?
I am not a fan of clouds.
What do you recommend?
Who would I get to set it up?
aaaannnnd I hate Google and google products.
as long as there is a carrier involved, the EN ES EY listens to you and records it.
Google business model is selling advertising Apples is selling its products - I’m going to let you figure out who cares more about your privacy.
You want a smartphone AND want privacy???????
First things first. Android or Apple? That is the decision you must make first. Once you decide that all other questions will easily fall into place.
Set up a VoIP server in your bathroom. Use a mifi hot spot to connect back to it remotely and make and receive all calls over a landline connected to a modem in that bathroom. You need 1024 AES encryption and use 3 decoder wheels to talk in various code. Pretty simple.
Go to ATT
They will give you service and an apple phone
Blackberry Key2. Blackberry is still the security leader, even though this phone is running Android. And, you’ll still have your physical keyboard, which you’ll be used to coming from a flip phone? Great phone, lasts 2+ long days on a single charge.
Time Warner? Start there. Don’t use your internet provider for email.
I’m a very satisfied customer of Consumer Cellular. They offer all sorts of phones, flip, Android and Apple, on e-z pay plans and their US-based customer service is second to none. No weird accents that are hard to understand. Just plain English. Outstanding company, IMHO.
You must have just bought Progressive Insurance.
I have always used TracFone. I like the LG phones, I am on my second one. They even sell phones, refurbished. Look and serve like brand new. I don’t use it heavily, but they use the Verizon network. As long as you buy minutes every 3 months to keep it active, they have many plans available. When I bought my last one they gave me triple minutes for life so I spend 19.99 every 3 months. All the excess keeps rolling over. I could never use what I have banked.
Why not talk to some of your business contacts
and see what they use and why. Things such as
this are personal to the user and opinions will
differ I guess.
Get the cheapest one. It will probably be a Samsung Android. It will be pretty much just as good as the most expensive Apple iPhone.
Personally I like a Samsung phone. One of the reasons is that it has a genuine keyboard.
You can buy it unlocked here:
https://www.electronicsforce.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=59566
Check with your wireless provider whether they will accept unlocked phones and whether they will help you set it up.
My provider is AT&T and n their website they said they will.
I am about to get the phone above, because someone dropped my phone I had for a long time and I need a new one.
CopperheadOS will sell you a Pixel phone with their OS preinstalled. It's pricey. You can do it yourself, but Copperhead only works on the Pixel series.
If you have the know how, or a friend who has it, you can install Lineage OS on a number of different phones.
You will not have to move your mail, just configure the new phone to use your service.
Nothing is in the cloud unless you put it there, or let it go there.
At the present time privacy does not exist online.
Even when you tell them not to track you. You still are being tracked.
I use Tracfone and LG smartphone Rebel 4.
With Tracfone the minutes never expire and roll over. There is a service fee of about $50/year.
I recently upgraded from the Rebel 2 to 4 and found a Tracfone app that transfer all of my data. It is called Transfer Wizard. It took about only a few minutes to transfer data, but I didn’t have much on the Rebel 2 anyway.
Tracfone generally uses Verizon.