Ogg wrote to Dennisk <=-
Hello Dennisk!
** On Sunday 20.09.20 - 11:50, dennisk wrote to Ogg:
...Phones like mine are pretty non-existant now. I wonder
if in the future, like "retro-computers", they will seek a
pretty penny being "vintage" and "retro".
I really doubt that older phones will appeal to anyone except
a museum. An older phone may not get the range or have the
longer battery life of newer tech. Battery prices for older
models of anything (especially old laptops) are exorbitant
The old phones may be cool to look at, but horrid to use.
My battery lasts for days, and the replacement cost $15 and was very easy to install. Just pop the back cover and put the new battery in.
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Re: Re: homeless people.. with a newer phone
By: Vk3jed to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Sep 21 2020 07:03 pm
And having a phone is critical to getting off the streets. See a payphone recently? They're all gone.
Funny you mention that. My car broke down in the supermarket parking lot. find a pay phone now. I hate having to ask store owners to use their phone.
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Re: Re: homeless people.. with a newer phone
By: Vk3jed to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Sep 21 2020 07:03 pm
And having a phone is critical to getting off the streets. See a payphone recently? They're all gone.
Funny you mention that. My car broke down in the supermarket parking lot. Not one payphone could be found anywhere. I finally walked about a HusTler
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The old phones may be cool to look at, but horrid to use.
My battery lasts for days, and the replacement cost $15
and was very easy to install. Just pop the back cover and
put the new battery in.
Funny you mention that. My car broke down in the supermarket parking
I get your point. Can't imagine myself without a phone, but ocassionally I f myself with a dead battery state while forgetting about it for longer.
I imagine if I had a problem and a phone was dead then it's the same shame t ask all around.
immigrants with strong ties to their families back home. International rates on a calling card are cheaper than they are on cell plans. Pay phones pay fo r the space they take up if they average three calls a day or 100 calls a month. Pay phones also exist in places where cell coverage is really spotty, or very few carriers cover an area. In the Upper Penninsula of Michigan it is common to see pay phones by truck stops and gas station / road houses.
Ogg wrote to Dennisk <=-
Hello Dennisk!
** On Monday 21.09.20 - 22:23, dennisk wrote to Ogg:
The old phones may be cool to look at, but horrid to use.
My battery lasts for days, and the replacement cost $15
and was very easy to install. Just pop the back cover and
put the new battery in.
My adopted Blackberry Q10 is pretty old by some phone
standards, but it has room to support the better 4G stuff for
while longer. Fine with me. And.. it has the user
replaceable battery feature too. I have 3 that cycle from [1]
one on charge, [2] one fully charged and waiting, and [3] one
in the phone.
all types of vending type machines make great money.
my family ran motels and the phones and the coke machine made tons
of money. sometimes it made more than the rooms made.
it's too bad that in society we cant have pay phones because people vandalize them. ---
My adopted Blackberry Q10 is pretty old by some phone
standards, but it has room to support the better 4G stuff for
while longer. Fine with me. And.. it has the user
replaceable battery feature too. I have 3 that cycle from [1]
one on charge, [2] one fully charged and waiting, and [3] one
in the phone.
I thought pay phones were disappearing because most people have cell phones these days. I've never heard of pay phone vandalism being a big problem.
I'd like to see phone that looks like the Blackberry Q10
with a more suitable operating system like a modified
Android and a decent chipset. I would probably pick one up
as a spare if that were the case. I've always liked the
little qwerty keyboard and appearance of Blackberry phones
however found them trash to use. I've owned 3 in the past
and they were all garbage compared to the earlieriPhones.
Trash to use? ..how so?
For using it just as a phone it's the perfect size. For
modest texting and checking for emails, it's fine. The built-
in FM radio is quite nice to have when streaming something
doesn't make sense.
For www or video streaming, the screen is way too small. But
that is not my requirement.
For operating as a camera and as a photo album, the whole
thing is just the right size.
Everything that I need it for works really well.
Just wondering what your classification of trash is based on.
Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-
I thought pay phones were disappearing because most people have cell phones these days. I've never heard of pay phone vandalism being a big problem.
Nightfox wrote to MRO <=-
I thought pay phones were disappearing because most people have cell
phones these days. I've never heard of pay phone vandalism being a
big problem.
No, you're right. Pay phone profits dropped steadily as cell phones
took off.
On 09-20-20 08:08, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Ogg <=-
With the GSM carriers, they've been phasing out the older networks -
2G is already dead, 3G is going away soon. Old phone won't work
anymore, if I understand correctly.
That's certainly true here.
... It's best to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
On 10-13-20 13:19, Multiplemiggs wrote to Vk3jed <=-
My service provider is is giving GSM the axe on new years eve.
Sucks cause I still have a Nokia 1600b that works great after 12 years. week+ battery life.
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