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moxiedrinker · ‎09-10-2019

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

emerald1830 · ‎09-10-2019

Alexa is in my car only...and the only convos they will get is me cursing out the northern drivers driving in the fast lane going 50..

They hear the F word maybe 20 times a drive..

and maybe the MF is I am really mad..lol

luckythewinner · ‎09-10-2019

@moxiedrinker wrote:
I do not have a smart phone. So how do all the updates help?

Not everything eBay does is going to help everyone.

I have a smart phone, but I do not use it for eBay.

But if I did, I suspect some of the updates would help me a lot.

moxiedrinker · ‎09-10-2019

Yes I have a flip phone too. It comes in handy when my wife wants to get in touch with me.And I can call the Starship Enterprise with it!

nocoolnamejane · ‎09-10-2019

@doubledz-a2z wrote:
@varebelrose wrote:
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.
I still go into the bank in person. Will not do anything on my PC (Vista at that). Go phone for telephone. Free Over The Air TV antenna which works fine. I keep a paper and pencil handy and I use a Filing Cabinet. Do you millinials know what that is? I hate gadgets. I have no Apps. I do nothing important online. When it all implods I will carry on as normal.

Millennials are now old enough to have kids in college. We watched movies on Betamax, only got one channel on the antenna and I had a rotary phone in my room until my mom passed and it got lost in the hubbub. I’m now an accountant and do use filing cabinets but less and less because the Earth. I guess your post was supposed to be a dig towards “millennials” but we’re actually the generation that has lived through both the old and the new technology. We’re just not afraid of the grid imploding if the mainframe collapses...

She ❤︎ Her ❤︎ Hers

tealt · ‎09-10-2019

Being by nature a "late adopter" (and being closer to death than change-of-life), I had to be dragged five years ago to an Apple Store to get a smart phone.

Now it is practically glued to my wrist.

All my relatives and most friends no longer call or send emails (or, gods forbid, write snail mail letters), they text. We even have a dedicated texting "cat channel" so we cat lovers don't clog up our Facebook pages with cute photos of our pets.

I don't use the eBay app (or even have it installed).

I use my laptop for listing and other eBay stuff...except taking photos. My iphone XR has an excellent camera, so I gave up my digital camera and tripod. I also figured out how to export my photos from my phone to my laptop. It has been a great time saver.

As someone mentioned above, I can use the phone to do research while out shopping for inventory.

And, then there is Pokemon Go--just what my doctor ordered. I take the smart phone to the park every day and walk my 10,000 steps while playing the game on the smart phone.

parkersparrow · ‎09-10-2019

I actually don't know anyone who would even call them "smart phones" anymore. Just phones... I have never had a landline phone in my adult life since I moved out of my parents house. Although it has become trendy again to carry flip phones among the hipster crowd. I think it's like in an ironic way. But I guess if you only need it for phone calls a flip phone will serve the purpose. I've been using a "smart phone" at least 15 years so to me it's simply part of everyday normal life.

buyselljack2016 · ‎09-10-2019

@bigdeals.etc wrote:
Am I the Only person on Here that does not have a "Smart Phone" ?

Yes.

Wrong

I have no cell phone. Smart, or otherwise. Have no need for one.

thecollegefund · ‎09-10-2019

Speaking as a Mother Of Millennials--my young adult kids appreciate both the old and new technology and are not opposed to using whichever it takes to get a job done.

My daughter had an important job interview several states away. The company flew her there, had her rent a car and stay in a motel not too far from the office. Since this was her first interstate trip solo, I insisted that she plot out her driving routes on Mapquest and print them out even though she had GPS on her cell phone. Good thing, too, since while she was there her phone went kaput for awhile.

I've also told my kids that they need to keep a hard copy, "old school" personal address/phone book in case their phones get lost, stolen or destroyed.

membersinceaug2001 · ‎09-10-2019

@moxiedrinker wrote:
I do not have a smart phone. So how do all the updates help?

I have no need for one. I call em "stupidphones" since that tends to be what people are made into with them.

Overpriced gimmicky toy. The constant barrage of information overload cannot be good for a person.

thecollegefund · ‎09-10-2019

I have lost count of how many people I have seen walking from in between parked cars in a parking lot without looking for oncoming, moving cars because they were looking down at their phones. Have also seen a couple of people step off of curbs into a street while looking down at their phones.

pvcliff · ‎09-10-2019

Cliff insisted on getting me my first smartphone for this past Christmas. I am able to figure out how to use it because I had long stated that when we do get a smartphone it would be an iPhone since I have an iPad. But I fixed him. When we were getting my phone set up at T-Mobile after Christmas I insisted that he also get a smartphone. He bought another brand and 8 months later can still only figure out how to make a phone call, send a text or take a photo about half the time, and then it takes five minutes of fiddling to accomplish his goal. But my phone still lives downstairs in my purse--I find it most useful for texting back and forth to the pet sitter, and for calling ahead to Shakey's to place a pizza order when we are 20 minutes from picking up pizza on the way to my elderly parents' home. I was perfectly happy with my clamshell.

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They didn’t say it was your fault. They said they blame you.

Anonymous · ‎09-11-2019

In 2004 while still owing $120,000 on my house mortgage I decided to check where I could save some money to pay it off so I could retire early - 4 years later I actually sold it and moved south to my "free" house.

After going through my filing cabinet of the last 10 years of bills (1994-2004) I found that I spent about $23,000 on cellphone and cable bills, I canceled them both and in 2005 bought a cheap fixer-upper in Kentucky that cost the same in monthly mortgage payment as the cellphone and cable bills or $180/mo. Now after 15 years it will be paid off in 2020.

Dumping those 2 services has increased my quality of life tenfold as I am no longer held hostage by a cellphone or captivated by reality TV garbage, just my hobbies and growing my own food. About 5 years ago I did buy a $9.99 TrakFone but seldom turn it on and often forget to take it with me when leaving the house.

buyselljack2016 · ‎09-11-2019

phone and internet bills are a real bite. Literally, and figuratively.

Just opened our "Frontier" bill. Have phone, and internet with them.

The bill was noticeably up. They have increased our internet monthly charge by 73%

Also have to have some sort of "monthly plan" for phone service. We have "Simple rate". That is assigned in lieu of making a choice of any other plan. It costs $4.99 per month and makes long distance calls $ 0.10 a/min. Just wonderful. An example is July. 4 calls for a total of 13 minutes. $1.30 + $4.99. Calls were $0.48 a/min. Really when adding the flat monthly charge, and other charges the phone calls exceed $2 per min. Local calls are 1-2 a month.

Then they sneak in some more charges.

OTHER SERVICE CHARGES AND CREDITS

Carrier Cost Recovery Surcharge 3.99

Frontier Com of America 1.30

Access Recovery Charge 2.50

Internet Infrastructure Surcharge 3.99

Federal USF Recovery Charge 2.20

Aug. per minute was a bit better as the wife made 43 minutes worth of calls reducing the per minute average charge. Of course those call could have all been made at no additional charge with her cell phone.

cad777864 · ‎09-11-2019

I have 3 computers at home, new ones, mac, notebook etc

I am also the PROUD owner of a flip, LOVE it, i do so much computer work, the last thing i want is a phone bugging the wee out of me. Dont want it, dont need it.