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Post by jdd2 on Apr 16, 2015 7:16:57 GMT -5
I've got a gazillion apple things, but thankfully just a flip phone.
Receiving notifications seems like the worst thing that could happen to anyone.
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Post by billhammond on Apr 16, 2015 7:20:31 GMT -5
Thanks, everyone -- I don't feel so terribly alone anymore.
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Post by millring on Apr 16, 2015 7:23:03 GMT -5
Thanks, everyone -- I don't feel so terribly alone anymore.
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Post by drlj on Apr 16, 2015 7:52:20 GMT -5
I still take the laptop when we travel but I hardly turn it on. We check everything we need to, from email to banks, on the IPhone a lot more easily and it fits in our pockets. We both use them a lot more than we ever thought we would. We do not talk to each other physically any more. We just text each other--even across the dinner table. "pass bter,pleaz. chix good IMO." Our vocal cords have atrophied so talking is difficult but the smart phones have a Hawking voice app that we are using now. Life in the 21C is good.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 9:47:23 GMT -5
I have a quite good phone, one that my brother had no further use for, but have blocked it's ability to go online. I'm online enough at home. When I'm away from the house I prefer 100% real world immersion.
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Post by Hobson on Apr 16, 2015 10:09:25 GMT -5
Dumb phones here. They're prepaid. We each spend $100 per year plus tax to add minutes and carry over old minutes.
But, Bill, wrong place to ask. We're mostly a bunch of old people.
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Post by t-bob on Apr 16, 2015 10:19:43 GMT -5
I have a dumb phone, Samsung... but I am smart!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2015 10:42:41 GMT -5
I just got a expensive iPhone 5s. I had a Windows phone which I now consider semi-smart compared to the iPhone and still more than I needed. But the Bluetooth function just never worked right and that is one feature I use a lot. I seem to get a lot of customer call when I'm driving and without the Bluetooth I must miss those calls because I won't pick up the phone. I also wear a Bluetooth earphone sometimes while working in the shop if I've been getting a lot of calls that day.
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Post by epaul on Apr 16, 2015 11:03:50 GMT -5
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Post by millring on Apr 16, 2015 11:06:14 GMT -5
it's got an interface with the tractor's pto.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Apr 16, 2015 15:36:21 GMT -5
Korean engineers that are 13 hours out of synch from me can cause a whole lot of grief.... I am neither Korean nor an engineer, but I am at least 13 hours out of synch from you, Peter.
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Post by david on Apr 16, 2015 15:45:29 GMT -5
I don't understand not having a smart phone. What do you guys do while you are stopped for a traffic signal?
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Post by aquaduct on Apr 16, 2015 15:49:31 GMT -5
I don't understand not having a smart phone. What do you guys do while you are stopped for a traffic signal? You stop for traffic signals?
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Post by coachdoc on Apr 16, 2015 16:02:44 GMT -5
My phone is my life and my life is my phone. I have a portable life that upgrades every 2 years. How cool is that.
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Post by Russell Letson on Apr 16, 2015 17:20:59 GMT -5
Do the upgrades include new knees? Or varifocal lens capsules? Or hair? If so, I might consider abandoning TracFone.
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Post by sekhmet on Apr 16, 2015 17:52:18 GMT -5
Oh my GAWD billiam you are so like yesterday.
We have matching smartphones in the Jensen-Jensen-Buchanan household and share a plan which costs us about $100 a month. We bought the windows based phones outright. I like to be able to text the daughter and see the damned text. Don't use anything fancy, just text an chat. But it's okay. I lust after an iPhone but I'm not laying out the cost of a powerful computer for a damned phone.
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Post by Lonnie on Apr 16, 2015 18:02:58 GMT -5
I have a phone that is reputed to be a smart phone, I find it anything but. Any remote computer work that I need to do is far too complex to be handled by a phone, any apps or games are too small to be any fun. I take my laptop and two 500 gig Lacie drives with me when I travel, my entire office fits in a briefcase. My phone makes and receives calls, and hangs up if I touch the screen to my cheek. Smart as a box of rocks. It has a tone system that is incompatible with Qwest, so it is nearly impossible to check my landline voicemail when I'm away from home, I can spend 5 minutes punching in my password and maybe qwest will recognize it, maybe it won't.
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Post by billhammond on Apr 16, 2015 18:20:10 GMT -5
Oh my GAWD billiam you are so like yesterday. We have matching smartphones in the Jensen-Jensen-Buchanan household and share a plan which costs us about $100 a month. We bought the windows based phones outright. I like to be able to text the daughter and see the damned text. Don't use anything fancy, just text an chat. But it's okay. I lust after an iPhone but I'm not laying out the cost of a powerful computer for a damned phone. My dottirs don't text me, and I don't text them -- we are talkers, and have nice, long AUDIBLE conversations where I can hear their tone of voice, their laughter, their distresses, and now I can hear the laughs and gurgles and cries of my grand-nugget, too. Those conversations don't cost me a cent and the sound quality is really good. So I just don't see that I am missing much. Did I mention that my flip phone has a CALENDAR?
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Post by Lonnie on Apr 16, 2015 18:22:27 GMT -5
Did I mention that my flip phone has a CALENDAR? It's a Mayan calendar, but, ya know...
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Post by billhammond on Apr 16, 2015 18:25:27 GMT -5
Did I mention that my flip phone has a CALENDAR? It's a Mayan calendar, but, ya know... It's pretty high-tech. It memorizes phone numbers and everything! I can change the sound it makes when it rings!
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