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Posted: 11/19/2012 4:00:02 PM EDT
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Does anyone make a GOOD non smart phone with a keyboard ? Used LG EnV3? |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 4:08:10 PM EDT
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Does anyone make a GOOD non smart phone with a keyboard ? Used LG EnV3? ahhhh, so no one makes a good new one then ? I still have my original casio G Zone which I love but I can't text to save my life on it !! My kids text me, hell everyone texts me and without a keyboard it would take me an hour to type a simple sentence. |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 4:09:11 PM EDT
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Unfortunately in the near future, smart phones will be all most providers will offer. Money is made on data, not talk and text.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 4:09:11 PM EDT
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I use a Casio G'Z one
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Posted: 11/19/2012 4:09:38 PM EDT
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Quoted: My Tracfone runs me about $120 a year. When I can get an Android phone with a pricing model like my Tracfone, I might go for it. Yep. |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 4:10:53 PM EDT
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I have an Iphone 3gs. It's all slow and junky now.
Question. Iphone 4s or Iphone 5? I'm probably going to be upgrading in January. |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 4:21:57 PM EDT
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No, I don't even text.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 4:25:12 PM EDT
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I don't have one and probably never will. I live out in the sticks and can't get cell phone service. I have an old flip phone in the car and truck for emergencies. $15 per phone = $30 a month. Insurance.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 4:29:20 PM EDT
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Don't have one. Can't justify the expense of a data plan.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 4:31:49 PM EDT
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No smart phone, i-this or pod-that. I'm not into all these gadgets everyone has to have these days. I have a basic cell phone (with no camera or anything else) for making calls, that's it. I'm getting along just fine without a computer in my pocket.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 4:32:04 PM EDT
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All I've got is a home phone, and I could probably live without that.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 4:38:13 PM EDT
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I do not. I might enjoy it, but not enough to warrant the $$ data plan. This |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 4:40:17 PM EDT
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All I've got is a home phone, and I could probably live without that. I'm the only person in my Platoon (37 people) that has a land line phone. This thread makes me happy, I thought I was the only one revolting against pocket idiot boxes. |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 4:43:16 PM EDT
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Flip phone because I don't care what the temperature in China is. |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 4:47:01 PM EDT
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I don't have one. the only reason I see to have one is to have internet access and with a screen that small I don't see how it would be any fun using it to surf the net. If it wasn't for my job having me on the road all the time I would probably get rid of my cell phone.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 4:54:09 PM EDT
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I have a flip and use prepaid service from Page Plus.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 5:12:02 PM EDT
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And why don't you have one? Got one about a month ago. Previous to that had a flip phone. Don't know how I lived without one. I don't. I work full time in single operator version of a "mission control" http://blog.bissantz.com/images/2008/04/columbus_kontrollzentrum02.jpg eight screens and two huge TV monitors feeding me information from all over the quadrant....................... .................................and then I am expected to leave work and continue to be hooked in with something in my hand? I don't think so! ______________________________________________________________ ("I don't think so!"––Leeta, (w,stte), "DS 9") Just when we think you couldn't possibly spin a bigger yarn, you do. |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 5:13:57 PM EDT
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I carry a prepaid I never use....for emergencies...not a smart phone
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Posted: 11/19/2012 5:14:16 PM EDT
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Insufficient ROI.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 5:22:10 PM EDT
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Love my galaxy s3. Contacts and calender on google available anywhere. GPS/NAV, an Rx med reference app for work, multiple email accounts, video/camera, calculator, bar code reader, wikipedia, music/video/pics, the list goes on. All that functionality in your pocket.
I love luddites on flip phones because it leaves more bandwidth for me. 
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Posted: 11/19/2012 5:23:03 PM EDT
[#21]
Flip phone is good for me.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 5:25:50 PM EDT
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Aside from texting and sending pics, I have little use for a smart phone. I have an old motorola flip phone. About time to upgrade...probably stick with a basic phone. I'm connected enough at work and home, when I get away from either it doesn't hurt me any not to have access to everything.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 5:30:05 PM EDT
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I don't even own a cell phone, never have and most likely never will.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 5:34:21 PM EDT
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I want to pay off my debt, one more year.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 5:35:46 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/19/2012 5:40:57 PM EDT
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I didn't until about five months ago. My wife called and complained
about her crappy phone and threatened to go to a different provider since every phone she got was POS. Our provider sent us both Luminas for free. Our data plan is pretty much non-existent so I only surf the net on it when in WiFi zones. |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 5:42:22 PM EDT
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Three reasons:
1. Money. With the data plan included, it would cost me something like $600/year total to own the device. 2. Durability. I've got experience with touch screen PDAs from long ago (Palm III, Palm IIIc, HP Jornada), and the durability isn't sufficient for the abuse I put on a cellphone. 3. Battery. My current flip phone gives me a full 8 days of battery life with my normal use pattern. That would drop to a couple of days if I switched to a smartphone. The current crop of smartphones is tempting (mostly the Windows-based ones), but it's not good enough yet. |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 5:51:01 PM EDT
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Same flip phone for the last 6 years.Some times I'm tempted, then I look at all the mindless automatons that play with it all day and say to myself I don't need one. I worked with a guy that if you didn't need him for anything he would stay on that thing 8 hours straight and never look up.You go for lunch with a bunch of coworkers and nobody talks ,they all whip out their smart phones and start fucking with them and can hardly break away to order their lunch. No thanks I pass. Same here. |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 5:53:24 PM EDT
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I don't.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 5:53:57 PM EDT
[#30]
The wife and me upgraded to iPhones and got on the same plan while we were at it. It ended up being $10 less per month than we were paying seperately for regular phones.
I'm not on FB or any of that, but it sure is nice to have internet everywhere I go if I need it. Plus it takes pretty good photos. |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 6:12:04 PM EDT
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I don't. I have a Tracfone. I bought a new one a few months ago for ten dollars that gives me double minutes each time I buy minutes. I bought the new phone to replace one that had a bad battery. The battery replacement would have cost a lot more than ten dollars.
I buy additional minutes every 14 months when my days run out. I get the sixty minute, two month service on the internet at tracfone.com, for $19.99, which gives me 120 minutes. I then get the internet special of 365 additional days for $49.99. This gives me a total of 120 minutes for 14 months. I don"t use all those minutes, so 14 months later the unused minutes roll over. My cost for 14 months of cell phone service comes to $69.98 plus tax. or about $4.75 cents a month I am usually near a wired phone that I use instead of my cell phone. I do not send or accept text messages, and I have not activated my voice mail box at tracfone. If I get a phone call on my cell phone, I do not answer it if I am able to call the person back on a wired phone or know that they can wait for a return call from we when I get to a wired phone. |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 6:16:24 PM EDT
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Of course I do.....I'm not a scrub or a vagabond.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 6:16:26 PM EDT
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Cheap ass flip phone with texting and messaging disabled!
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Posted: 11/19/2012 6:36:23 PM EDT
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A bunch of old fart in this thread.
I expected to read about more tin foil in here.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 6:39:50 PM EDT
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––-snip––- I am not a 12 year old girl so I don't need to check mybook or facespace or tweaker every 30 seconds. I don't sell drugs, day trade or sell real estate either. I wouldn't own a cell phone. I do have a BlackBerry something or other that has unlimited data, text, and messages that work puts on me (I the IT systems manager). I put about 20 minutes on it a month. |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 6:40:46 PM EDT
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Don't want one, don't need one. Company pays for my flip phone 100%, could move up if I wanted to but have refused one now twice. I hate touch screens, don't Facebook or text, so I have zero need for it. Everyone in my company that has one has nothing but heartaches, same old "can't get my email", and their talk quality is shit. Foreman has one and all I hear is background noise. No thanks. Oh I get my emails - sometimes days after they're sent. Same with voice messages. Uggh. |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 6:42:48 PM EDT
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Don't have one. Screens re too small.
Over rated tech. |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 6:48:19 PM EDT
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Had one, tossed it as soon as the contract expired.
If I had it for free, I'd use it occasionally to check movies times and stuff like that. Would not pay for it. |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 6:51:45 PM EDT
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I have one, it is nice to have the internet wherever you go. Especially on road trips. To be honest, I am the only person out of all of my friends that is not constantly texting or checking facebook. They bitch about getting out of service range while we are hunting, and I couldn't care less. I would never go back to a flip phone though.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 6:52:18 PM EDT
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I don't own one, but I have one for work. There I'm on the talk till your lips fall off flat rate plan, along with txts and email. 12-14 hrs a day/6 days a week is plenty of smart phoning for me. I've got a cheapy verizon phone for personal use.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 6:56:20 PM EDT
[#41]
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I don't. It's not worth it to me to pay an extra $40+ a month to have a bunch of crap i'll never use. I agree |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 7:02:15 PM EDT
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My cell phone bill averages around 5 bucks a month. It does everything I need it to do.
Why would I spend 10-30 times that amount? |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 7:06:19 PM EDT
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I have one and other than being able to panic buy AR parts as soon as they are in stock i can live without it. . I didnt do facebook but now the shops i buy from are on there and post hey we have xxxx instock ...before they send email notifications i now find myself there to. I really hate the 90 bucks a month i pay but i dont have a laptop just a big old desktop computer. I dont text i email to avoid text plans. so what i need is a Ipad thingy i can make a call from if i had to. and i could get rid of my phone.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 7:07:43 PM EDT
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I have one now but as soon as my contract is up in a few months I'm going back to a dumb fliphone just like the ones I carried for years.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 7:16:34 PM EDT
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I don't have one because I don't want one.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 7:20:31 PM EDT
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I need a phone that makes/receives calls and texts.
I don't need a computer in my pocket. |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 7:27:27 PM EDT
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I don't. The only reason I have a cell phone at all is that my wife made me get one, so that if I get hit by a car while I am out on my road bike, I can call an ambulance.  I have a trac phone because of the wife. 4 years now and I've only made one call, to make sure it worked
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Posted: 11/19/2012 7:28:17 PM EDT
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Had an old flip phone.
I was handed down an iphone 4 when my FIL got an iphone 5 about 1 1/2 weeks ago.
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Posted: 11/19/2012 7:28:42 PM EDT
[#49]
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Unfortunately in the near future, smart phones will be all most providers will offer. Money is made on data, not talk and text. Never mind offering what the customer wants |
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Posted: 11/19/2012 7:41:22 PM EDT
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And why don't you have one? Got one about a month ago. Previous to that had a flip phone. Don't know how I lived without one. I don't have one because I know that I can live without one and be just fine. Wait until yours breaks.... |
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