Posted on 06/22/2014 8:31:41 AM PDT by martin_fierro
I live in southwest Florida. I have Verizon. In North Port, Fl. I cannot get a signal. Someone I work with in that area had to get ATT to get coverage. I can drive out Hwy. 64, 10 miles from I75 I drop signal, get it for 5miles around Zolof Springs, drop it, get it for 10 miles around Wachula, drop it until about 10 miles outside of Sebring. Look at a map. No mountains. Tell me that is good coverage. If I am up the person’s butt,I can just tap them on the shoulder. Like 10s of millions others.
Indeed, my first phone call at about age 4-5 in 1951, consisted of picking up the phone and telling the operator who I wanted to call. She connected the call.
We brought a phone book for Logan WV with us when we moved to Cal in 59. The numbers were all 4 digits. 3,500 people in the county at that time, some with no phone some with party lines (cheaper rate).
My bag phone worked until they went digital and killed the signal. HD TV does not work here either.
Another app that I've re-started using again recently -- and which appears to be very popular in my area -- is Waze (also owned now by Google).
It incorporates a lot of the Trapster features (plus those of GasBuddy) and is a crowd-sourced traffic app. At any given time on the road it claims to have a couple doxzen other users in my immediate area, reporting on traffic conditions in realtime.
not saying there is good coverage by all companies everywhere, but the millions in the big cities make the percentage of ownership very high compared to the smaller numbers in rural area, who don’t have coverage.
My sister lives in Max Meadows VA, 1 miles from the interstate. Good coverage at her house. I have found that service is fairly consistent near the interstates in the rural areas.
BTW, Don’t take my rant personally. I consider you a fellow FReeper. My anger is just against the marketing of a device that is supposed to make phone calls. I don’t care how nice the seats in a car are, or if it has sat nav, if it keeps dying on me while I am driving.
One day we’ll all be direct to a satellite.
No problem, too early to argue on this fine Sunday morning.
I get that, especially if you gave an old one with tubes.
I think everyone should have a shortwave tube radio for emergencies as well
Agreed. One last inquiry..Are you morphing toward or away from libertarian?
Let's try that again.
One of the first things to go during the floods here in Colorado was the phones. Roads and electricity went in many places also. The 1 watt radios were of little use and the Sheriff and rescue workers had much trouble with their digital radios. At least a rotary dial phone works when the power is out.
My most used iPhone apps:
Pedometer
Magellan RoadMate
Amazon
Weather Underground
MyRadar
Podcasts
Pandora
Geocaching
2048 XP
E*Trade
You might be better off asking about Linux apps for their Linux phones.
Waze. Better than any GPS I’ve ever used. I use it everyday to guide me to at least 7 unique addresses each day.
Does it bother anyone other than me that many of these apps (including Waze) track personal information and utilize my camera and microphone as part of getting the app?
I have a couple of tuner and metronome apps, a copy of the Constitution, couple of piano and percussion apps.
I work at Home Depot, so I have the Home Depot app in case I need to look something up.
And of course, there's the Walking Dead 'Dead Yourself' app, which lets one zombify pictures, like I did to Heather here:
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