...which is why I refuse to ever get a phone with a SIM chip.
I’ve been using a run-of-the-mill phone with Verizon for almost 10 years. When I went into their local store to add the fiancee to my plan, their selection of phones WITHOUT a SIM chip or the need for a data plan was paltry.
The cherubic boy explained to me that “everyone’s on the web now,” and my polite response: “Not everybody, bucko.” Being 30 years old, he looked at me like I had a third eye; as if to say that I’m required to be hip or cool with wireless web. However, almost every provider requires a data plan EVEN IF YOU DON’T WANT IT!
I threatened Verizon to walk; I’m not beholden to any contracts anymore. They caved to my requests, and I’m on their most basic plan.
A phone is a phone, dammit. I don’t need web, apps, instant messaging, email, etc. In a world where the government is tracking people via their phone, I’ll take a landline and a pay-as-you-go phone. I’m sorry, but I cannot justify watching television on a screen smaller than most televisions in the 1950s.
I’ve yet to own a cell phone. I don’t want to be that available and, when on the job, that phone seems to me an electronic leash.
We’ve used an early pay-as-you-go phone for years, no problem, no bells and whistles, it’s a....PHONE! Wow, what a concept.
I mean everything about it is corny, the style, screen graphics (almost non-existant) and menu. But on style, it’s now almost “retro” so we might really be cool!
Had a great bag phone for the car until it became so obsolete that we couldn’t use it, anyone know of a way to upgrade this thing for fun? Reception was second to none and the handset had wonderful clarity.
A phone is a phone, dammit.
You forgot texting, which to my feeble mind is the most inane cash cow yet invented except for social networking. I have text available as an emergency system in case of a weak battery in the boonies.