So, iPhone or android? Im due for upgrade and might switch

[martin-w 3,113]

15 hours ago, birdguy said:

Does anybody know of any flip-phones that are just phones with no games, no GPS, no APPs,

 

If it has a few features you don't want, you don't have to use them Noel. Delete the games and applications if you like. 

[dmwalker 530]

11 hours ago, birdguy said:

I don't think so, I don't know what we have in our area.  I just assume we have everything everyone else has.

I was thinking of this but maybe I misunderstood:

"When my wife had to get a new phone to replace her old flip phone because the old one wouldn't work in 5G she opted for a flip phone"

[birdguy 3,813]

Yeah, Dave, I did say that.  And I got her a new flip-phone.  I guess we do have 5G.

Noel

[n4gix 4,900]

12 hours ago, Jayjay said:

Charlie, that's exactly how I used to pronounce it when talking to my collegues in Denver.  They finally adopted the same pronounciation while talking to me.

Jean-Jacques

Reminds me of one of my favorite haberdasheries, Jacques Pene (J.C. Penny) 😁

[Fielder 3,323]

By the way today  October 11 is Prime Day on Amazon, it starts today, Early Prime day.

phones, desktop cpus, gpus, monitors, motherboards. etc etc etc

Edited October 11, 2022 by Fielder

[Jayjay 47]

On 10/11/2022 at 10:56 PM, n4gix said:

Reminds me of one of my favorite haberdasheries, Jacques Pene (J.C. Penny) 😁

🤣😂

[Mace 1,753]

On 10/11/2022 at 3:38 AM, Jayjay said:

Charlie, that's exactly how I used to pronounce it when talking to my collegues in Denver.  They finally adopted the same pronounciation while talking to me.

Jean-Jacques

My aunt calls it Target (tar-jay or Targè ) kind of in jest.  Maybe there's Targè in Cornwall, just like a St. Ives...

@birdguy yes you can get a flip-phone, in fact, I hear flip phones are making a come back of sorts.   My 2006-era LG flip phone lasted until early 2022.  At that point I decided to see what the fuss was all about and purchased an iphone.   It's ok, but I don't really get the hype as to smartphones.   I feel as you do, I just want to call people, and have a list of people I might want to call.  Is it possible for me to join you in being  a Luddite, being GenX and building my own PC's?   Yet, here I am.  A phone Luddite maybe.

However I have discovered a few apps, like a weather radar app, that I find useful.  It never rains in Roswell so that is right out for you.  Then I also downloaded a head-tracker app which I play around with in conjunction with flight sim, which sure beats wearing some weird apparatus on my head or attached to my headphones.  And then of course these days, if I have the temerity to suggest going to a Cardinal game, no smartphone, no go kemosabe, there's almost no such thing as paper tickets, I have to download the "MLB App"....ugh, what a hassle.