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The battery on my 4-year-old dumb phone was finally going out, a few weeks ago, so I went to Sprint to buy a new battery. "Sorry, we don't make those anymore! Your phone is too old! You'll be much happier with a Smartphone! Here, let me show you......................................
Only one dumb phone available for sale! No, thank-you, not ready to enter the 21st century!
Next stop, Wireless Toyz, as per the instructions of the salesman at Sprint. Nope! No battery! Can I interest you in a Smartphone? Nope! Then try Batteries Plus!
Off to Batteries Plus I go, and yes, they had the battery to keep my dumb phone, hopefully, running another 4 years!
You sound like my husband and me. We have dumbphones too. We just didn't see the need to have phones that did much of anything except to make phone calls, receive phone calls. But I think as these phones wear out, we'll have to relent.
I have to agree with the battery issue another poster mentioned. I have a prepaid flip phone I have had for years. It is very small, very light weight to carry around, and I don't have to charge it but once a month instead of every night. It makes calls......period.
As I didn't want to believe I was old and feeble and not living in the present century , I purchased a smart phone too. It's nice, and can come in handy occasionally (if I remember to charge it up the night before I leave to go anywhere the next day) but half of the time I don't remember, so I always have my old trustworthy flip phone at the bottom on my purse (not weighing it down like a brick) that I can just add $25 to once a year and my unused minutes roll over for another year.
I understand the appeal of smart phones. They can prove very useful to people, especially those who are out and about all the time, but for others who aren't out quite so much, perhaps less wonderful.
It may seem funny, but I will NOT go back to day of grabbing the operator for everything, especailly emergencies, BUT I will take "enhanced 911" any day.
WHy?
Because I suffered a house fire in the middle of the night in FEB in NEw England in 1989-1990.
I crawled out of a bedroom window wearing my bed clothes; a pr of socks, and a pr of briefs! I was fortunate my winter coat was on the chair under the window I crawled out of and I grabbed it, too. Got no answer at the neighbors, or the other neighbors banging on the doors, having difficulty breathing {smoke inhalation}, and had to walk the 2 blocks to a convenience store, in socks and undwear......IN FEburuary inthe middle of the night!
There I "confidently' punched "0" thinking my trouble we over. THEY HAD JUST BEGUN! The operator was clear across the state, for one thing, not local and did NOT know the area. I yelled FIRE AS best I could..she said "SiR, I need to know where you are at"...I gave every every other every breath of the addy of the house on FIRE. SHe said YES, sir, BUT I NEED TO KWOW WHERE YOU ARE, WHAT TOWN YOU ARE IN???? Once I gave her that, I am hanging on to the phone on the ground by now passing out, and she asks AGAIN: SIR, I NEED TO KNOW WHAT PHONE YOU ARE AT! WHERE AREYOU???? I finally got out the phone at what convenience store {closed} and the cops arrived in pairs, one to see the house and one to tend to me to get an ambualance...
I'd have died of exposure as well as smoke inhalation as welll, too much longer! NOw, with enhanced 911 they should know where you are, unless you have a cell phone. Then you are pretty much where I was that night with a cell phone....they DON'T know where you are, and you have to tell them! They are working on it, though.
The house, everything was a total loss, gone, adn they sent me home in PJs from the hospital as I had no cothes, but socks and briefs! I was lucky to survive, I had a roomate who would've been "toast", but he was gone that night partying, and I was home alone, BUT WITH MY BR DOOR CLOSED, saved my life!
I had to start completely over then.
BE aware in emergencies!!!
I've had my Samsung dumb flip phone for ten years. $2 a day unlimited talk and text. It has a camera, hardly used. The numbers are nice and big on the screen.
The closest signal to my house is sixteen miles away. I use it when I go out alone, which at most is 2X a week.
I will probably upgrade when we move to a more populated area. None of my peeps text, so don't need that.
You sound like my husband and me. We have dumbphones too. We just didn't see the need to have phones that did much of anything except to make phone calls, receive phone calls. But I think as these phones wear out, we'll have to relent.
A sad, frustrating day awaits us! Perhaps I'll just go back to a land line then!
My telephone, my car, the same! I'm hanging on to my 1985 Toyota for dear life as I'm terrified of these new high tech gadgetry cars! I'm forced to rent one of these new "space crafts" occasionally, and I'm so happy to get back behind the wheel of my low-tech Toyota who doesn't scream at me for not putting my seat belt on!
A sad, frustrating day awaits us! Perhaps I'll just go back to a land line then!
My telephone, my car, the same! I'm hanging on to my 1985 Toyota for dear life as I'm terrified of these new high tech gadgetry cars! I'm forced to rent one of these new "space crafts" occasionally, and I'm so happy to get back behind the wheel of my low-tech Toyota who doesn't scream at me for not putting my seat belt on!
Doesn't scream at you and no black box / hidden GPS to allow your insurance company (and who knows who else?) to mess with you.
I'd be totally clueless as to how to use GPS, and these screens to show you what's in back of your? Oh please! I've never even trusted my rear-view mirror! I still twist my head!
Yes, I got behind the wheel of one of these keyless ignition cars for the first time with that little black box! You should have see the show I put on! Couldn't get it started, marched into the rental office and demanded a less complicated car to rent! And, when I later found out would happen if I lost that black box, and how much it would cost?
I'd be totally clueless as to how to use GPS, and these screens to show you what's in back of your? Oh please! I've never even trusted my rear-view mirror! I still twist my head!
Yes, I got behind the wheel of one of these keyless ignition cars for the first time with that little black box! You should have see the show I put on! Couldn't get it started, marched into the rental office and demanded a less complicated car to rent! And, when I later found out would happen if I lost that black box, and how much it would cost?
This makes no sense to me. What black box are you talking about? If you rent a car that's equipped with navigation or rearview camera, you can easily ignore those features.
If you don't like keyless ignition, you're within your right to demand one that requires a key although I don't see the point. What difference does it make if you turn a key or push a button to start the car?
I drive a 2009 Subaru with none of the above features and intend to drive it for years to come. But DH's car has them all and I'm envious of his navigation system and rear-view camera.
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