Really? Why, thank you! It’s really just something I dug out of the closet and have had for many years.
After 15 years of having it, and never once having to use it, I've decided to trash my old Cellular Telephone. Every 90 days I'm reminded to buy a new AirTime Card for $20, which I never use. Among all the items I've accumulated in my life, this takes the prize at being the most nonessential! Will I get a new Smart Phone to replace it? Hell No! Hal
I did the same. I used mine two or three times related to problems with driving. When I sold my car the phone became unnecessary.. but truth be known, I miss that little chunk of plastic. It represented A little piece of security that’s now missing.
I like my cell phone because I, having hearing problems, can text everybody and it has an app that's keeps track of my driving so that I get a discount on my auto insurance.
Pretty much this^^^ If you're on the road and something happens, all the dimes in your pocket will do no good because there are no more pay phones in which to shove them.
While the choir sang “Halleleuia” , and we all said a silent “AMEN” that dear Hal was not replacing the cell phone.
Excatly! If I did not own this phone I would need to buy another home computer. Can do most things from phone..and quicker. I log appts.reminders grocery ...Use the light from phone face to guide me in the dark.
Until I retired I never used the Appointments Calendar in my phone. I had a routine schedule and anything that was not the norm I pretty much remembered. These days I either have random doctor appointments or just a bunch of one-off things I'm doing. Now I keep them on my phone so when someone asks if I'm available on a given day at a given time, I can pull out my phone and tell them right then, rather than waiting until I go home/look at my calendar/call them back. I still keep appointments on a physical calendar (with email reminders the day before) so I can see what's coming up. Chiming an hour before I've got to be on the other side of the county while I'm sitting in lounging attire ain't gonna do me much good.
Regarding the Calendar feature and "Big [Google] Brother": I downloaded apps for a couple of toys I purchased onto a new Tablet I purchased for that purpose: -I have an endoscopic camera, which is a camera lens on the end of a snake you can run down drains, under furniture, inside engines, etc, and display the image on the Tablet -I purchased an adapter that plugs into the computer output of my car and transmits data to an app on the Tablet. I can check/reset Check Engine Light codes, and can read any data point that the computer has access to on the Tablet. In order to download an "App" for an Android [non-Apple/non-Microsoft] device, you log on to The Google Play Store from the device, select the App, then it downloads to that logged-on device. I've only downloaded the Walmart app to my smartphone, but I did log onto The Store from it that once. So I log on with my Tablet and download those apps. Some days later, I'm watching TV and this strange new chime goes off. Then the appointment reminder on my phone goes off. That new chime was my Tablet. Because I logged on to the Google Play Store from my Tablet, Google now knows that both it and the phone belong to me, and Google automatically synchronized the Appointment Calendars, pushing my phone appointments out to the Tablet. Apparently when I enter appointments on my phone, they are automatically stored in a Google database somewhere. So now I'm careful as to the details I include. The whole thing creeps me out. I'm certain it's for my benefit...