Am I the Only person on Here that does not have a "Smart Phone" ?

[moxiedrinker]

I do not have a smart phone. So how do all the updates help? 

[gracieallen01]

"Am I the Only person on Here that does not have a "Smart Phone" ?

No.

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@moxiedrinker wrote:

I do not have a smart phone. So how do all the updates help? 

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If you find out, and they do help, please, let me know, too.

[parkersparrow]

What updates? The seller updates?

[wesk_36]

I don't have a "smart" phone, just an old clam-shell phone.  Service is only $10/month. Everything internet I do on a home computer.

I don't understand your update question, though.

[monster-deals]

You would be an already small and ever shrinking minority.

[frodobagginskennedy]

I finally gave in and got a smartphone.  I rarely use it for calls.  However it is nice to hear the cha-ching when you get a sale.  It also is nice to get the notifications that you have a question.

I do use it a lot to research things when I am out and about.

I use consumer cellular.  Good value and no contracts

[readabouthorses]

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@moxiedrinker wrote:

I do not have a smart phone. So how do all the updates help? 

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Slowly raises hand ... no, I don't have a smartphone. I do have a flip phone for emergencies on the road.

[ifyouloveit]

My smart phone had a brain bleed and can't remember how to do anything anymore. It was born in 2011 (iPhone4) and it no longer supports APPS of most kinds.

How smart is that, lol, some smart phone. They want me to buy a new phone, who are the smart ones? ;0

[varebelrose]

I only have a flip phone.  My wife talked me into a smart phone a couple years ago, but it was a complete waste of money, since all I ever use a phone for, is calls and an occasional text. The smart phone had to be charged all the time, constantly wanted to do updates, required a bogus email address that I could never log into, so I gave it up very happily.

Anything important or financial (like eBay or PP) goes through a very secure PC at home. I'm not a Luddite, I just dont see the need to be online with a phone 24/7.

YMMV.

[southern*sweet*tea]

I have a smartphone. I don't use it for Ebay, since the app and mobile website are fairly useless for a seller. (I do like that cha-ching, though ) The only reason I  have it because when I changed carriers a few years ago after my daughter's death I couldn't find one that would work with  my old Samsung Magnet messaging phone. (geez, I loved that phone!)

I use my smartphone...as a telephone. Novel idea, isn't it? I also use it to listen to music at night, and when I need to wake up early I use it for an alarm. Why it for an alarm and not my alarm clock? Because I'm a hard sleeper and noise doesn't wake me. I set my phone to vibrate, put it on the bed and the vibrations are what wakes me up in the morning.  Otherwise it sits on the side table in the living room. It did come in handy a couple weeks ago when we had that lightning strike and I lost my internet for ten days.  I was able to extend my handling time out five days and I could keep an eye on any sales, and I kept my email inboxes cleaned out.

But yeah, you don't need a smartphone for Ebay, and not sure what the fall seller updates had to do with a smartphone, unless I missed something.

[thecollegefund]

Flip phone AND a landline phone with an answering machine, here.

My husband only carries a company issued smart phone which he has to conduct business on, even while we are on vacation---UGH!

I also only keep my cell phone for emergencies on the road, so it is kept in my car at all times. I hate the practice of being tethered to phones 24/7.

We kept the landline for the aftermath of natural disasters. Sometimes it is the only thing that works when cell towers are out of commission.

[readabouthorses]

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@thecollegefund wrote:

Flip phone AND a landline phone with an answering machine, here.

My husband only carries a company issued smart phone which he has to conduct business on, even while we are on vacation---UGH!

I also only keep my cell phone for emergencies on the road, so it is kept in my car at all times. I hate the practice of being tethered to phones 24/7.

We kept the landline for the aftermath of natural disasters. Sometimes it is the only thing that works when cell towers are out of commission.

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Yes, I still have my landline as well. There are almost no bars on a cellphone where I live, especially inside the house, so I would be lost without a landline and I still use a CORDED phone because I got tired of trying to find batteries for a cordless phone. Have to have landline for internet (DSL).

My flip phone is always in my purse and is never turned on. LOL

Judging from that TV ad eBay seems to like to run, I guess if we don't have a "sillyphone" to check the barcodes while we are out shopping then they don't want us anymore ??

[gracieallen01]

I must admit that I do have a flip phone (somewhere around here).  I have it for emergencies and it is suppose to be 'internet capable'.  I got it from AT&T and it is $100 a year.  It is really funny, though.  I've had it for about 5 years and have paid $500 to using it.

BUT - this last time I went to renew it, they said I could only pay $37.00 because they can only let it get up to a $500 limit.  That means I've used it enough to rack up a $37.00 in charges over 5 years, so I couldn't renew it for another year.  I ask them what happens when the 4 months runs out?  They said that they cancel the account!?!?!?!?!?!

So, I call AT&T and ask why, if I have a 500 credit and only use the phone for emergencies, do I have to start over with a new phone that I don't use that much?  The kind Indian gentleman said, 'Let me look'.  He came back online and said, 'You are all set for another year.  We can't let that happen'.  I said 'Thank you'.

So, now I have a phone - sitting plugged into the charger, that I rarely take with me, never answer when it rings since nobody I know has the number to - that is paid up forever, that I'm going to have to get a frame or something for since it seems to be good only for display!

[thecollegefund]

When I do keep my flip phone in my purse, I can't ever find it when it rings as it always dives all the way down to the bottom underneath all the other stuff I carry in there. It's even red so it should be easy to find--ha-ha!

[csbbct]

I'll admit it...I'm someone who still has a flip phone and refuses to get a smart one, doesn’t own a DVR, still uses my VCR and tape cassette players, and has an antenna (no cable) for my old style big-tube TV.  If a burglar came into my house they’d run out pretty fast not willing to go to prison for my amazingly obsolete devices.  I have surrendered to a few things like a laptop, tablet, and GPS, but believe me they’ve all taken their turn coming very close to the bottom of the Connecticut River!