It sounds like you decided, but you could use a tablet and use Wi-Fi without a cell connection of any kind. Most smart phones can do that, too.
I've had this thing for about 7 years, but I only used it for a few days. It has a video of Johnny Carson and Jack Webb doing a parody on"Dragnet". Hal
I don't like wireless devices. No Wi-Fi, thank you, and no Smart Phones either! I'll take real photographs any day! Hal
WAIT A MINUTE... I thought I'd try something with my Samsung device...I connected its charging cable to my computer's USB port, then opened my picture file, and the Samsung immediately began downloading every picture in my file, plus 283 more that were hiding in my file for years! I thought I had 352 pictures, but my computer coughed up 635! I can now select "gallery", then scroll to any picture by selecting the group, then the picture, and I can also enlarge it with my fingers, just like you smart people can do! Now I can feel snooty and superior like the rest of you! Harold
I think you can strike that last comment, Hal. We were only responding to your post or call for help. Not one of us feels 'snooty and superior'. I'm also sorry that you think that way.
Dang it, Von...you're just a kid in her 60's. I'm 20 years older than you. You just took it the wrong way! I was merely saying that now I'm as SMART as you all! No real offense intended, huh? Hal, 82 years old this July.
@Hal Pollner. well where I come from 'snooty and superior' are deemed as derogatory when used to describe a person. I'll just let you keep thinking that I took it the wrong way.
I don't own a cell phone and can't think of a reason I'd want one, but I do remember the first phones available to the public, and I thought they were superior in appearance to today's devices. They had retractable antennas, which made them look like real communications instruments instead of the "powder puff" compacts of today. Land Lines Forever, Hal
Strictly for making a telephone call, I miss my (very) old bag-phone. It was made to be used in a car, rather than a hand-held phone, but I could pretty much always get a signal.
That's an interesting pictorial history, Joe I Iiked the phones that resemble the US Army Signal Corps "Walkie Talkies". (I was in the Signal Corps when I served in the Army from 1960 to 1962...our insignia was Crossed Flags.) Hal