Two so far for me, my current a 3G that will no longer function after February 2022. A 'dumb' phone who's only app is on/off. AT&T plan, 90 days of 10 cents a minute for $25. Fits in my front pant's pocket, going to miss the little guy.
AT&T has a plan that costs $30.00/month, unlimited talk and text and 500 gigs of data. Bring your own unlocked device, as long it's recent vintage. You do have to prepay the plan each month using a credit card. $32.80, including taxes.
cell phones screens started out large-ish, then gradually got smaller and smaller. then, suddenly, they reversed direction and got larger and larger. what caused this reversal??? guys realized they could watch porn on the damn things.
I think I spied my one and only LG flip in that photo. oh than reminds me I better turn it on and charge it. Last time I checked about a year ago it was low.
That was my ‘first’ mobile - sat between the seats on my Acura. Even w/o any external antenna (only using the dinky ‘whip’ that came with it), it still had great range and signal quality, back before there were cell towers everywhere...
I think I also have only owned 4, Kenny. I am currently on my second one in 20 years, and that is only because my last one fell out of my shirt pocket and broke 3 years ago and I was forced to get a new one. I would keep the one I have now for forever, except like "anonymous" above, I will be forced to buy a new one on or before Feb. 2022. And yes, when I do, it will be a flip-phone. As long as they are still available I will always stick with a flipper. Always...
1 flip phone, 1 slide phone on second "smart phone". They come in handy for certain tjings, but if I forgot it in the morning I'm not turning around to go get it.
I believe I'm on my third. Being able to read epub books was a game changer. You just never know when you'll need to fill some downtime. "Six Frigates: The Epic History of founding of the US Navy" currently on tap.
Like everyone here I only 'upgrade' cause they forced me to. So 3G is going away in February of '22. Well it will be the simplest phone that I can get on my prepaid $100 a year/double minutes phone plan. I just re-upped for another year so I added another 800 minutes to the 1200 that were already sitting there. About the only time I use it is to get the verification codes for different web sites I want to use and when I'm traveling to check-in with the daughter.
Well, I have only "owned" one phone, the iPhone X a have now which I bought when I retired two years ago.
However, if you count company supplied phones which they owned and not me, I have had six since the late 90's - the Brick, a StarTac, a Razor, an iPhone 4, an iPhone 6, and the iPhone X I mentioned earlier.
The bag phone was the best by far. I could be forty miles out at sea and talk like I was calling my neighbor on a land line. 5 watts of analog with an external antenna.
11, plus one employer-provided phone. Except for the first three, all have been smartphones of one sort or another, starting with a Treo 650 back in '05. I see one of those (or its relatives) in there, along with the Sony Ericsson T610 I had before it.
Looks like there's also a Palm III in that picture, but those were just PDAs, not phones. Mash one of them together with a phone and you have something like the Treo, a smartphone that beat the iPhone to market by at least a couple or three years.
Two so far for me, my current a 3G that will no longer function after February 2022. A 'dumb' phone who's only app is on/off. AT&T plan, 90 days of 10 cents a minute for $25. Fits in my front pant's pocket, going to miss the little guy.
ReplyDeleteAT&T has a plan that costs $30.00/month, unlimited talk and text and 500 gigs of data. Bring your own unlocked device, as long it's recent vintage. You do have to prepay the plan each month using a credit card. $32.80, including taxes.
DeleteI am not afiliated with AT&T except as customer.
Nemo
cell phones screens started out large-ish, then gradually got smaller and smaller. then, suddenly, they reversed direction and got larger and larger.
ReplyDeletewhat caused this reversal???
guys realized they could watch porn on the damn things.
I think I spied my one and only LG flip in that photo. oh than reminds me I better turn it on and charge it. Last time I checked about a year ago it was low.
ReplyDeleteI think it's 5 for me, and that's only if a Motorola bag phone counts as a cell phone. That thing made me feel like I was Frank Cannon or Joe Mannix.
ReplyDeleteThat was my ‘first’ mobile - sat between the seats on my Acura. Even w/o any external antenna (only using the dinky ‘whip’ that came with it), it still had great range and signal quality, back before there were cell towers everywhere...
DeleteI think I also have only owned 4, Kenny.
ReplyDeleteI am currently on my second one in 20 years, and that is only because my last one fell out of my shirt pocket and broke 3 years ago and I was forced to get a new one.
I would keep the one I have now for forever, except like "anonymous" above, I will be forced to buy a new one on or before Feb. 2022.
And yes, when I do, it will be a flip-phone. As long as they are still available I will always stick with a flipper. Always...
Tim in AK
1 flip phone, 1 slide phone on second "smart phone". They come in handy for certain tjings, but if I forgot it in the morning I'm not turning around to go get it.
ReplyDeleteI believe I'm on my third. Being able to read epub books was a game changer. You just never know when you'll need to fill some downtime. "Six Frigates: The Epic History of founding of the US Navy" currently on tap.
ReplyDeleteAuthor Ian Toll is great, read his trilogy about the Pacific war, I think those japs were harder on themselves than on us.
Deletedaddy-o
Like everyone here I only 'upgrade' cause they forced me to. So 3G is going away in February of '22. Well it will be the simplest phone that I can get on my prepaid $100 a year/double minutes phone plan. I just re-upped for another year so I added another 800 minutes to the 1200 that were already sitting there. About the only time I use it is to get the verification codes for different web sites I want to use and when I'm traveling to check-in with the daughter.
ReplyDeleteOnly 2 for me. One flip phone. My current is a smart phone.
ReplyDeleteWell, I have only "owned" one phone, the iPhone X a have now which I bought when I retired two years ago.
ReplyDeleteHowever, if you count company supplied phones which they owned and not me, I have had six since the late 90's - the Brick, a StarTac, a Razor, an iPhone 4, an iPhone 6, and the iPhone X I mentioned earlier.
The bag phone was the best by far. I could be forty miles out at sea and talk like I was calling my neighbor on a land line. 5 watts of analog with an external antenna.
ReplyDelete11, plus one employer-provided phone. Except for the first three, all have been smartphones of one sort or another, starting with a Treo 650 back in '05. I see one of those (or its relatives) in there, along with the Sony Ericsson T610 I had before it.
ReplyDeleteLooks like there's also a Palm III in that picture, but those were just PDAs, not phones. Mash one of them together with a phone and you have something like the Treo, a smartphone that beat the iPhone to market by at least a couple or three years.