Ten yes 10 years ago today. People were lined up to buy at the ATT Stores and Apple joints. Today Smart Phones went on sale. They have been around for ever haven't they???? This story was on the radio this morning, so if it is incorrect blame them. I have only had one for 8 months. Must be old school.
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Yeah, we've had ours for about a year, and we wish we'd got them sooner. Having fun texting goofiness with kids and grandkids, photos, etc. And very handy for "pick up such and such at Safeway on your way home", and so on. I can see how people could get addicted to texting- its fun!
Adirondack case guy
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Sane here.
Russ from MN
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I get by with a flip phone, it fits in my pocket nice and it's cheap! My wife has a smart phone that she lends me sometimes!
We no longer have a landline, we don't stay home enough.
We no longer have a landline, we don't stay home enough.
've had cellular since they first came out where the phone was permanently installed in your car. Cost me $2200 for the phone, IIRC. (early 1980's?) I've got a smartphone, text only when I have to. Kids text me, I call them back. Faster and more efficient. Plus,[b:c7b667ec5f] texting is dangerous,[/b:c7b667ec5f] even when you're not driving. I've had people run into me in stores because they're looking at their phone instead of where they're walking.
I was also in the derisive,"never own one" camp. Then something happened that changed my mind. I bought a smart phone and it is NEVER out of my pocket.
My brother scraps from time to time. He got permission to salvage a burnt barn for metal. He started about first light, a friend of his on his way to work saw his truck and stopped by to talk.
That evening on his way home he noticed the truck still there and stopped again. He found my brother pinned under a cement wall that had come over on him.
Two weeks in the hospital with black nasty fluid oozing from every orfice from his organs being crushed.
He laid pinned under that rubble for 5 hours with his cell phone thirty feet away from him on the dashboard of his truck.
I will never be without one and it will always be in my pocket!
My brother scraps from time to time. He got permission to salvage a burnt barn for metal. He started about first light, a friend of his on his way to work saw his truck and stopped by to talk.
That evening on his way home he noticed the truck still there and stopped again. He found my brother pinned under a cement wall that had come over on him.
Two weeks in the hospital with black nasty fluid oozing from every orfice from his organs being crushed.
He laid pinned under that rubble for 5 hours with his cell phone thirty feet away from him on the dashboard of his truck.
I will never be without one and it will always be in my pocket!
I got a so-called "Smart phone" a year ago. Not because I wanted one. More because my old flip-phone died and Verizon offered me this one for free. Motorola Android Mini. I am now glad I got it. I use it as a "hot spot" Internet server when camping and it can run several lap-tops and/or desk-top computers. Also - even though I absolutely hate the idea of texting . . there are people who never answer their phones or even setup their voice-mail. Only to reach them is with texting. I also found out that in areas with signals so weak the phone will not work, often texting still does.
As a side-benefit, it has a very good camera and fits in my pocket.
As a side-benefit, it has a very good camera and fits in my pocket.
fixerupper
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I'm on my third smart phone. I use it to keep records, send pictures, text and once in awhile make phone calls. Texting with pictures is a very valuable tool for me when communicating with crop consultants and parts people. One feature I like is the ability to put a picture of a person's face beside his or her name in the phone book so that person's face comes up until the screen when I receive a call from that individual. I can recognize the face quicker than reading the name on the screen when a call comes in. Makes it easier to answer a call when driving. Driving a TRACTOR, of course.
tractorguy2
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I don't own any cellphone. Don't see the need.
James Howell
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If someone wants to talk, then leave a message on the answering machine.
If I want to talk to them, then I will call them back.
Simple.
If I want to talk to them, then I will call them back.
Simple.
Yea how fast times change.
How long ago did flip phone cell phones come out? The first cell phones looked like army radios from Korean War, but when did the slip in a pocket size phones come out?
I dislike telephones so I don't have one, but I really like the 'smart' portion of them, really like my tablet.
Paul
How long ago did flip phone cell phones come out? The first cell phones looked like army radios from Korean War, but when did the slip in a pocket size phones come out?
I dislike telephones so I don't have one, but I really like the 'smart' portion of them, really like my tablet.
Paul
fixerupper
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How many of you remember the crank phone? I was eight years old in 1959 when the crank phone was taken out and a rotary dial phone was hung on the wall. I don't remember how many longs and shorts our ring was.
Destroked 450
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I've only had a I-Phone for a few months, the added cost of internet and texting on my old plan was more than I was willing to pay.
My service provider changed their plans and now I have the I-Phone 5 with text and internet for less than my old plan.
Don't like texting but it's the only way to get in touch with the young-in's, weather mapping is nice, texting is handy when you don't have phone service, phone has a real nice camera, and decent flash light.
Couple years ago has I stepped off the tractor to check the mower I stepped down on a chunk off wood and took out my ankle, tore the ligaments and tendons, tractor was running so no one could heard me yell.
Pulled out my cell phone and called the wife, she drove her pickup from home out into the field to take me to the ER, I was on another farm that no one lived on about 6 miles from home, if I hadn't had that cell phone I could have layed there for hours.
Paul Shuler
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I have been reading this and laughing. I am a flip phone user myself and have no need for a smart phone cause my wife will look up the weather or whatever I need for me. What is funny to me is how many have said I will never own a smart phone. I have in the last 6 months done 3 things I swore I would never do. I said I will never move heavy furniture ever again. I will never buy another chewing and digging puppy. And for heaven?s sake I would never buy a boat .Lol. My wife bought a bunch of furniture at my mom?s auction. Granddaughter wanted a dog and she said paw paw, we need a boat. As an old man I have become very soft. You would think I would learn to stop saying "I will never". Careful what you say.
I remember when you picked up the receiver and told the operator the number you wanted to call. Dial phones were later and new technology for us. Odd how operators new everyone's business back then. You could also listen in on your neighbors being on a party line. None of those phones were ever hacked.
I still have a rotary phone. Drives me crazy when I call some where and they want you to press one. Hang on the line until the end and they say thank you good by.
I do carry a cheap trac-phone for safety rather than pay hundreds of dollars for a call button deal. I don't answer it when it rings.
I do carry a cheap trac-phone for safety rather than pay hundreds of dollars for a call button deal. I don't answer it when it rings.
Brown Swiss
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I am old school too, just use a pea can and a string!
My flip phone bit the dust about a month ago. Went to Version to get another one and they said no free phones any more. Had my son pick out one of them other kind. He didn't call it a smart phone anyway. Wanted me to go with him to pick it out, told him wouldn't do any good because don't know anything about them. Having a he?? of a time getting use to it.
I was a long time hold out too but now can't imagine not having a smart phone, handiest tool there is. Probably 95% of use is other than a telephone. Cost is no longer a deterrent, I see today a new Straight Talk IPhone 5 is $99 at Walmart and their unlimited Straight Talk plan is $45 a month with no additional fees, even cheaper if you want to pay 6 or 12 months at a time, no contract either. Other providers have similar plans, they cost no more than a landline did.
PaGlenn
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Flip phone works fine with me. I can talk,text,send email,take photos,plus speaker phone. Have a backup when this one quits.
teachingscience
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Same here, my students laugh at my flip phone but I ask them how many smart phones they have broken and replaced in the last year. Almost all have had at least 3 phones in the last year. My old reliable Rugby has lasted at lest 4 or five years and still going strong. I cant even remember when I got it.
ray hofstetter
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What's an answering machine??
I'm not a phone person but do own a Trac Phone. Costs me $7 a month. If I break down the cost that would be about 14 dollars for one call I made in Jan or Feb. I have it though if I need it. Have a land line because internet and phone all together. I take calls but rarely call anyone unless it is a return type call.
showcrop
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I finally caved in about a year and half ago. The ladies at work were claiming that I was not responding quickly enough to emails. That was bunk, but anyway, next thing I knew they were calling me in to pick up my new Apple. It is actually more for the people that I communicate with than for myself. I don't expect to become independently wealthy, therefor, I have to be in communication with people. There are a lot of ways that it saves me time, as well, and I am not independent enough yet to be able to squander time that I could be making use of for myself.
(quoted from post at 13:41:21 06/29/17) I have been reading this and laughing. I am a flip phone user myself and have no need for a smart phone cause my wife will look up the weather or whatever I need for me. What is funny to me is how many have said I will never own a smart phone. I have in the last 6 months done 3 things I swore I would never do. I said I will never move heavy furniture ever again. I will never buy another chewing and digging puppy. And for heaven?s sake I would never buy a boat .Lol. My wife bought a bunch of furniture at my mom?s auction. Granddaughter wanted a dog and she said paw paw, we need a boat. As an old man I have become very soft. You would think I would learn to stop saying "I will never". Careful what you say.
I can see why you got a boat.
Grandma's phone # was 96X. Called the operator in her town when we were kids, and asked for that number. Operator said "Your grandma went by a few minutes ago- she had her grocery carrier, so I think she was going to the store. She should be home in about an hour- why don't you call back then?".
Those were simpler, and better times.
Those were simpler, and better times.
Paul from MI
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Haven't seen anything that works as good as my Samsung flip phone. holds a charge for days, gets good reception in weak areas, very reliable. I don't text much, prefer talking on my phone.
TomA in CA
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I have several smart phones. I get them on EBay for about $50 each. My Kyocera was brand new my Samsung galaxy was used. The phones are not activated. I use them on wi fi at home and public wi fi when out and about.
I have a $9.00 Tracfone that's never out of my pocket either. But I want absolutely nothing to do with "smart" phones. All I see is parents handing their kids a smart phone and walking away and then months later wondering why their 8 year old boy is addicted to porn or their 11 year old daughter is sending nekked pics of herself to her "friends" and the perverts out there. And I'm not even touching on teens and adults that can't put that stupid phone down long enough to answer a question!
RobCons
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I do not embrace new technology very quickly but have had a smart phone for awhile. Comes in handy. Have some neighbors and associates that have chosen not to adapt with new devices. They get left out of group activities on a routine basis. Just the way life is. I especially enjoy the Bluetooth capability of a smart phone so I can listen to my music. I have 70ish albums on the phone and Bluetooth connect to a speaker or headphone routinely.
Hoenes
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Our ring was 3 longs and 2 shorts. Of course everyone's phone on the party line would ring, so the old women would listen in, as they knew who's phone was ringing. The local farmers maintained the lines, sort of like a co-op. I could swear it was nothing more than #9 wire? Any tech please explain that?
Destroked 450
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What a minute! Two longs and a short was our number!
You could always tell when someone picked up to listen in because the volume would change, my aunt and uncle had a rotary phone also and my aunt acted as a operator, we'd call her on the crank phone and tell her who we needed to contact and what the message was, then she'd call on her rotary phone and relay the message.
They finally ran a line through our area and we got our first modern rotary phone in 65.
I first cell phone took them a day to install in my semi, had a corded receiver like a house phone, cost me $45 for 30 minutes of local air time, outside of my call area cost $3 connection fee plus $.90-1.10 a minute.
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