Posted on 03/29/2017 12:38:55 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
You’ll need to download an app for that and no, it’s not funny. These phones are operators, you are the operand.
Maybe built in?
They will have a string you pull and WHOOOOSH!
My personal phone is an ancient (5+ years old) Virgin Mobile Evo 3D (it can do 4G, but keep the phone on 3G)), running Android 4.0.3, but since I've got a (work) phone that I use to run current apps, I have no reason to upgrade.
Both phones have replaceable batteries, which means I can keep a spare or two if I need it, or charging one while using another. My personal phone has Seidio 4000mAH (4AH!) extended life battery, which combined with the Seidio Mil-Spec case make the phone enormous and heavy, but even with talk times of several hours, a single charge lasts more than a week. I hope to be able to keep this phone for another couple of years.
My personal requirements for any phone are simple: micro-SD card capable & replaceable battery. If the new Samsung doesn't do both, if I need a replacement, I may have to go with LG. However, my experience with 2 previous LG phones over the years were REALLY excellent, with excellent reception and very long life.
Mark
I did!
Mark
Jeeze, I don wanna be operand no more.
If I didn’t break my S4 I would still have it.
You could stick a way oversized battery on it that would last three days.
We are being operaned up our back sides by these phone comanies.
I don’t want this S8 not impressed.
Speak for yourself, kemosabe. I tried the iPhone. Within two days, I palmed it off on my kid, and got another Android.
My question too! LOL!
That memory brought me quite a chuckle.
My favorite was/is the Motorola V60s which I got in 2002. I don’t use it any more but refuse to part with it so it’s separated from its battery, and they’re living together in an old cigar box.
My next favorite is the BlackBerry Classic, which just lost its life due to water damage. (Don’t ask...)
The Classic is no longer sold, so I’m using an LG5 android now and will turn it in before the 14-day trial period is over. In order for it to be fully functional I must be willing to have a relationship with Google — and I’m not willing to be connected to it 24/7. I don’t do gaming, email, or social media so a true smartphone is overkill.
And the android talks to me sporadically, for no particular reason. A woman will announce, “Verizon Wireless”, from my purse or just sitting on a table. Weird.
Since I can’t get a Classic (which is perfect for my needs — including a tactile keyboard), I may have to reunite the parts of the Motorola flip phone.
I was real happy with my Motorola Quantico flip phone. It had everything I needed...a hello button and a goodbye button....red
Any good sluth can monitor you speaker and hear any noice, just like the old POTS phones. It also tracks you if they follow the pings to the cell towers (radio waves). I would not commit a crime carrying any phone or using any vehicle with an GPS unit/Sirus XM radio capable.
Note 4 here. $345 a year ago. Does everything just as well. I dodged the $900 Note 7 bullet. Not planning on buying the newest phone or a new car again. Note 4 battery and memory card serviceable. When you buy an older model phone batteries are like $7. I have 3.
(yeah, I'm that cynical)
You battery freaks crack me up. I still have iPods from the early 2000s that are running on the original battery. There is no longer a need to service or replace batteries in mobile devices. You plug them in once a day and they charge back up. Repeat for years and years.
Time to come into the 21st century.
I like my iPhone 7 - but my Galaxy Note 4 made a bigger impression on me when I first got it. The iPhone is super-solid, but a step backward in some functional ways.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
Get an iPhone. You’ll never go back. Nearly 20 years of owning Apple devices from iPods to iPads to iPhones and never had to replace a battery once. Never.
Perhaps we just spend too much time staring at our phones? Non-servicable batteries is how they get more of our money. I want servicable batteries, is that so wrong? It is all about their corporate bottom line and we consumers just keep lapping it up like fools.
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