Okay, old guys unite, what smartphone do you have?
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Hmmm... over here, Walmart would sell you a 'smart' phone for like $50. I think they're called tracfones but there are maybe a few different options/brands.
Umm actually I have been the ludite everywhere I go. I have an old phone I got when my father passed away. It does not talk or text. But I do have the IRobot app on it so I can schedule my robot vacum. If it weren't for that I would not have one at all. The old one on the Kitchen wall with an old tape answering machine still works great. For F2A I have an android emulator I can fire up if needed. But mostly the F2A just calls my phone. I am free !! And no one is tracking me.... peace out.
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I'm about to wipe my iPhone 11XR something or other I got "free" from Sprint as part of their bundled offering, yada yada. You know the drill. To be honest, I would be completely happy with a flip phone. I use computers, I do not do face time on my phone and the vast majority of my calls/text messages are 2FA. The calls I get are 90% or more spam. The only other useful feature is being able to take a picture before I take something apart. I could do that with a $20 camera. The cheapest phone I Can find on Amazon is $499. wtf? Going out to buy lottery tickets. $500 for a phone plus $40/month give or take for service. This is absurd. Back to shopping.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Samsung A33 -couple of hundred from Argos when I got it. It's an ok all rounder - camera is nothing special but ok, likewise screen, does 5G, I'm happy enough. It was an emergency purchase when my old Samsung died the night before I was due to go away for a week in Cornwall.
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I'm about to wipe my iPhone 11XR something or other I got "free" from Sprint as part of their bundled offering, yada yada. You know the drill. To be honest, I would be completely happy with a flip phone. I use computers, I do not do face time on my phone and the vast majority of my calls/text messages are 2FA. The calls I get are 90% or more spam. The only other useful feature is being able to take a picture before I take something apart. I could do that with a $20 camera. The cheapest phone I Can find on Amazon is $499. wtf? Going out to buy lottery tickets. $500 for a phone plus $40/month give or take for service. This is absurd. Back to shopping.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Ralf, no idea why your post would get flagged as spam, but I'll look into that model.. I'm going to start by resetting my 11XR back to zero and see where we go from there, but I'm still shocked at the prices out there. Y'all have given my wife hope that she can still track me ;).
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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Ralf, no idea why your post would get flagged as spam, but I'll look into that model.. I'm going to start by resetting my 11XR back to zero and see where we go from there, but I'm still shocked at the prices out there. Y'all have given my wife hope that she can still track me ;).
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Mine was flagged as spam also. I did not anything that should have triggered that. Just a straight forward reply.
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I'm about to wipe my iPhone 11XR something or other I got "free" from Sprint as part of their bundled offering, yada yada. You know the drill. To be honest, I would be completely happy with a flip phone. I use computers, I do not do face time on my phone and the vast majority of my calls/text messages are 2FA. The calls I get are 90% or more spam. The only other useful feature is being able to take a picture before I take something apart. I could do that with a $20 camera. The cheapest phone I Can find on Amazon is $499. wtf? Going out to buy lottery tickets. $500 for a phone plus $40/month give or take for service. This is absurd. Back to shopping.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Used to have Sprint myself, since well before they became T-Mobile. Got a free update to a 5G phone two years ago, a Samsung Galaxy A13 G5, 4GB RAM/64GB storage (+microSD up to 1TB!). IMHO, runs circles around using a dreaded iPhone, does all I need, including a few emergency apps. New price back then would have been $280 (+tax, etc), it's currently $200 at Best Buy, starting at $150 on Amazon ("renewed" as little as $95) Battery has a decent runtime, up to two days of heavy use, which includes playing solitaire while on public transportation, also use GPS a lot for travel app, as well as email (have 5 Gmail accounts in use on it). Also uses a USB C charging port, which I can share with my GMRS radios, also using one and the same external battery packs for both...
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I'm about to wipe my iPhone 11XR something or other I got "free" from Sprint as part of their bundled offering, yada yada. You know the drill. To be honest, I would be completely happy with a flip phone. I use computers, I do not do face time on my phone and the vast majority of my calls/text messages are 2FA. The calls I get are 90% or more spam. The only other useful feature is being able to take a picture before I take something apart. I could do that with a $20 camera. The cheapest phone I Can find on Amazon is $499. wtf? Going out to buy lottery tickets. $500 for a phone plus $40/month give or take for service. This is absurd. Back to shopping.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
I bought my first dumb phone about 15 years ago. I replaced it with my first smartphone about 8 years ago. It was, and is, the first Google Pixel XL. Still going strong, original battery. I only did that because I needed it for a class. Recently, I had reason to look at getting a newer phone. I couldn't find anything under about $1,500 that was better. Apparently, those are now called gaming phones. Almost every phone had worse display resolution -- which actually makes a difference, I tried side by side comparisons and text was fuzzy on the newer phones, but crisp on mine. The other specifications were not really any better. Worse, most of them do not have a headphone jack, nor did they have two USB ports, or a separate power port. That is a non-starter and major deal breaker. The GPXL has a screen resolution of 2560x1440. I will move up to 4k, but not down. I also can't justify the cost of a used car for a phone they want me to replace in a year or two. I expect a phone to last a couple of decades. At least. It turns out, that outside of making phone calls, getting confirmation texts from various accounts, about the only use I actually have for the phone is reading Kindle books and .pdf documents (which is why the resolution matters, I want to see the entire page without scrolling, and for it to be readable).