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Posted 01-03-2017 at 12:50 PM by TamaraSavannah
Well, that time has come when I need to have a smart phone.
Signal coverage out at the ranch isn't the best, so I was talking with my company about getting a booster. What I have found out is that my old Razr doesn't have the most efficient signal at 2G and I could do better with a 4G which is what the smart phones are at.
So another thing to do this month, search for a smart phone. To many people that probably does not sound too difficult but I am starting from scratch here.
As to which line it will be, right now I am leaning to it eventually being the secondary, house phone and keeping the Razr as the primary or, at the very least, the follow on to the Razr, to being still a mostly talk, low app load phone.
Sigh.............
Signal coverage out at the ranch isn't the best, so I was talking with my company about getting a booster. What I have found out is that my old Razr doesn't have the most efficient signal at 2G and I could do better with a 4G which is what the smart phones are at.
So another thing to do this month, search for a smart phone. To many people that probably does not sound too difficult but I am starting from scratch here.
As to which line it will be, right now I am leaning to it eventually being the secondary, house phone and keeping the Razr as the primary or, at the very least, the follow on to the Razr, to being still a mostly talk, low app load phone.
Sigh.............
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I have some ideas to help you get what you need, if you're looking for advice. I can help you keep things simple, and for the least amount of money, much more so than you are supposing (at least according to what you've written earlier).
Please let me know if you are amenable to this idea.
And....we can have a conversation here, or by DM, whichever you would prefer.Posted 01-03-2017 at 01:10 PM by Macrina
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Thank you!
I probably will reach out to you and anyone else offering. but it will be a few days at least.
So far, I have reached out to the brothers on this topic, gotten some feedback, and have had to remind them that I know absolutely nothing on this subject.
I mean, as an example, it wasn't till yesterday talking with T-Mobile that it became apparent that my problem was that it really wasn't the service I was using that didn't have the coverage but rather it was the phone and the technology of it that couldn't reach out to the coverage.
Now I don't know if people had been telling me this all the time and I wasn't perceiving it or if the people had just assumed that everyone knew it and weren't saying it, but it is a pretty good indication of the knowledge gap. I mean, up to yesterday, I thought 4G was just some advertising talk of a particular brand of phone. I didn't know that 4G was something like C3.
So I will probably need a lot of lessons, a lot of advice, although right now, all I am looking at a smart phone for is talk, text, maps, and maybe a handful of other things. While it may answer my internet peril (will probably have to do satellite), I am kinda hopping it won't, so I can beat some of my net addiction.
But as said, please do say!Posted 01-04-2017 at 07:14 AM by TamaraSavannah 
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The easiest smartphone to use as a novice would be an iPhone. The SE model is least expensive at $399. Bear in mind it has an excellent camera, easy to text and has great call quality.
And yes, the calling quality and ability is far better than you razor.Posted 01-07-2017 at 11:42 AM by Mr5150
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Researching it.
What's it's popularity for being stolen, the SE?
Otherwise, my cell phone booster.......and short wave weather radio came in.Posted 01-09-2017 at 04:19 PM by TamaraSavannah
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Well, I did it, I gave in, and bought my first smartphone, the SE.
Have done my first phone call to a brother, in a previously described cell tower dead zone and the call went decently well. A little low on the volume, maybe I am not holding it properly..........and I had a disconnect. Maybe I am holding it upside down and leaned on the hang up button.
And........at the store, when I took out my current phone, the salesperson did say...."A Razr....haven't seen that for a while.".Posted 01-13-2017 at 05:23 PM by TamaraSavannah
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Took my first video on my smartphone on Sunday, a routine we learned in a workshop (you don't get to see it, it's private, rules of the studio).
As things go, I left my Razr in my bags in my car and carried the smartphone with me....for the purpose of recording any routines. Had there not been that reason, then I probably would have carried the Razr with me though I am not sure for what reason. My communications were off for most of the day so just as I might have checked my phone at the end of the workshops in the studio, so I might not checked them till I was in the Forester.
Now the issue at hand is trying to figure out a way to get it off the phone without involving a data plan.Posted 01-29-2017 at 10:28 PM by TamaraSavannah
