[rokkitapps]

I’m satisfied with my dumb tracfone. I have internets at home and work, why do I need to surf the 10 min in-between.

[Mister Da]

I, too, was “satisfied” with my cheap phone, though it was barely readable in the sunlight.

After months of frustration, I got an Iphone 3GS. $50 with a 2 year contract - cheap.

It is incredible. A tool belt even Batman would admire.

So far, I have paid $.99 TOTAL for over 40 apps - all but one was free. For this I have news, sports, finance, stocks, & weather, including radar. All my music albums are now on my phone. TV & movies are mostly free. Web surfing & email are easy.

I have a free GPS navigator with voice directions - forget Garmin. An interstate exit app that tells me what services are located at the next, or any, interstate exit or zip code. A mosquito repellent app. Proximity alerts from to-do lists that remind me I am near a to-do task. Voice & text language translators. Bar code scanners that tell me where I can get a scanned product cheaper, with directions & a phone number. The entire US white & yellow pages. Every kind of calculator - profession specific. It can even do fractional arithmetic with results in fractions - a carpenter's dream. A level & tape measure. Incredible cameras that do 360 degree panoramas. Every kind of alarm & notification you can & cannot imagine.

With over 90,000 apps, everyone can find some apps that will make their life easier.

Now, I have never been a fan of Apple. Never had a Mac - didn't want one. I was raised on MSDOS - Apple was a dirty word.

But this phone is so much more than a phone. It's a portable, electronic, very smart toolbox that can save me serious time & money & provide some serious CYA with its reminders. If it could pay for my purchases, I wouldn't need my wallet anymore, & that's saying a lot for a man who has carried a wallet for 45+ years.

I still have glare problems in the sunlight, but not nearly as bad; & my old eyes have trouble with the small screen, but again it is better; & voice dialing makes calling someone real easy.

So, the next time you see someone “playing” with their phone, they might be buying/selling 100,000 shares of Apple or AT&T, reading a book, or checking their home security cameras. Amazing!

[Not gonna take it anymore]

I had a tracfone as well. Buy minutes once a year and I’m good to go.

I got a new touchscreen phone recently. Easy to use and cheap to keep.

[Not gonna take it anymore]

I have a tracfone as well. Buy minutes once a year and I’m good to go.

I got a new touchscreen phone recently. Easy to use and cheap to keep.

[varyouga]

Because, aside from the big brother aspects, a smartphone is one of the most amazing tools you can have. You have the capability to access all the knowledge in the world and connect to every corner of the globe with an item smaller than a wallet.

Just one example- I was about half-way going between Vegas and Reno and my friend's engine started pinging and stalling at low rpm about an hour after filling up. The nearest station was 50 miles away (found instantly with my phone's GPS).

Within minutes in the middle of the desert, I downloaded the service manual for his car and was able to get the ECU to flash me a hidden trouble code(similar to morse code). It was a faulty knock sensor combined with bad gas. We found exactly which jumper to pull to override the sensor and run the car at a safe ignition timing all the way to Reno .

It is fully programmable so the things you can do with this thing are only limited by the imagination.