Are you FRUSTRATED with today's Technology?? (pet, cheapest, expensive, 55)
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T-Mobile has a 55+ plan that gives you TWO lines with unlimited data, texts, and calls for $60. Only one of the users has to be 55 or over to qualify. I don't even think about data use anymore. And their service works seamlessly overseas for unlimited data and texts. You just arrive in most countries and are greeted with a message saying that all data and texts are free. While you're abroad, though, calls are $0.20/minute, in contrast to back in the USA, where they're free. I never call, though, when I'm traveling. Just text and use data.
Interesting....... by the birthdays, I could qualify.
The things that would stop me from going for that would be that thing about Internet Addiction, turning into a zombie, and a fear about losing the two lines I already have.
Now, is that an "older" thing? An older thing in that not that I am frustrated but that I am so set in my ways, in my beliefs, that I wouldn't go for it?
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T-Mobile has a 55+ plan that gives you TWO lines with unlimited data, texts, and calls for $60. Only one of the users has to be 55 or over to qualify. I don't even think about data use anymore. And their service works seamlessly overseas for unlimited data and texts. You just arrive in most countries and are greeted with a message saying that all data and texts are free. While you're abroad, though, calls are $0.20/minute, in contrast to back in the USA, where they're free. I never call, though, when I'm traveling. Just text and use data.
We just signed up for T-Mobile 55+ a few months ago. Best thing since sliced pizza!
I'm a retired software engineer, and I feel I should know a thing or two about how software is supposed to work. But I left the industry in the mid 2000s, and times have changed since the days of rigorous testing before programs (I guess they call 'em "apps" now) leave development and enter the field.
But these days I can hardly seem to get from Point A to Point B without some sort of software glitch, necessitating a call to the Help Desk.
How's technology working for YOU lately, now that (if) you're retired?
I am ready to burn it in a fire. Why can't I transfer my photos off my phone? I am not stupid.
The thing about answering the Android is swiping one way to answer or another way to reject, etc. I've already accidentally hung up on a caller by "swiping" the wrong way while picking up the phone.
Plus, if you have a message session open, you get a different dialog. Now instead of swiping you press Answer or Dismiss, and if you press too long, (like we determined my wife was doing,) you get a new dialog with button selections to send back messages, etc.
All we wanna do is answer a frickin' telephone call. Life was easier with a flip-phone, (but Nooooo - we had to get a SMART phone. Who feels like a dummy now!)
I almost never have no service/data with AT&T and when I do nobody else does, either. My partner has Verizon and in my experience I am more likely to have service than her.
I've had the opposite experience. I had a lot of trouble getting reception with AT&T, whether at home or while traveling. My wife had the same issues. And this was with a number of different phones over the years. Once Verizon came to our area and we switched over, no more problems. I switched over first and my wife was frustrated that I always had reception and she didn't, so she too switched over to Verizon when her AT&T contract ended.
Well, we're back with our new computer again. The tech guy said they installed the anti-virus program, after trying 4 days with problems. Ok. So we use it a couple hours, and a few minutes the next day and guess what, the anti-V uninstalled itself. Called the tech place and oh, they apologized, but what could they do, wanted us to take it all apart once again and bring it in. When I complained they gave us the remote people's phone number.
4 times we had to call them and they installed the program again and again... Finally the 4th time seems to be the ticket - so far. Crossing my fingers. Lost several hours to this nonsense this morning.
A big part of the problem is I'm busier than most people I know. If I need to get something done, I need to sit down and do it. There's not much time for trouble shooting and the long process of learning. I know at some time soon DH will come and say "send this off to so-and-so" and I haven't yet figured out how to do it.
After the holiday is over, it's on to tax season. After that's over I may have a little time to learn some of this.
Tonight, though, I'm a bit pleased. Looked at something on Google Maps, the street view, and it works so seamlessly with this W10. I was just limping around with the xp. Amazing.
I am ready to burn it in a fire. Why can't I transfer my photos off my phone? I am not stupid.
Since my phone does not do what everyone says it will (Connect to the computer and it shows up like another disk drive - No, it does not.) I use one of these. The toughest part is tracking down where the files are on the phone.
I insert a usb drive into it, then plug the small connector into the phone and it shows up as a USB drive in the listing. I copy the files I want to the USB, tell the phone to unmount it, then plug the USB into my computer, and copy files to it. Works like a champ. It's traveled to Europe and back and on many vacations here for the past three years and worked flawlessly. I also lets me transfer files from my SD card that is in the camera to the phone and vise versa. Works with our tablets as well.
The reason I like this one is that it takes a USB drive. A lot of them don't.
I'm frustrated with the fact I cannot find a printer that can last more than a year before it completely stops working, or has wired connections. I absolutely hate how just about everything is wireless.
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