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Quoth bainsidhe View PostI point-blank asked if the onl-line feature could be blocked/removed/cancelled. He point-blank said no. Guess what I later found out can be blocked? And guess who gets a commission for every phone signed up with internet feature? Yeah, that's one way to piss me off.
Quoth Mamadrae View PostHeh, cell folks dread me cause I walk into a store and go "I want a PHONE. No e-mail, text crap, internet capabilites, etc, etc, etc, and it has to be able to survive world war 3 for 2 years.""I'm not smiling because I'm happy. I'm smiling because every time I blink your head explodes!"
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I'm over the moon that Nokia have now introduced a "robust" phone model. It looks to be designed for the purpose from the inside out, too, since it is shock, dust and water resistant without looking much different from a normal model. It also has most of the features that people seem to expect from a "feature phone" these days, without being a "smartphone".
I still have two phones - an ancient basic-phone and a relatively new smartphone. The basic-phone does it's job without any fuss, though it does have some annoyances in the SMS interface (just try to delete a word quickly without deleting the whole message). The smartphone is a bit unstable but is actually very useful - even though I completely ignore a lot of the more miscellaneous features. I just consider myself lucky to have been able to avoid the "2 year contract" shenanigans.
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I <3 Nokia for having simple, robust and rather cheap phones. The fact that almost all of them use the same kind of charger/adapter is a bonus. I really don't care about their overhyped (overpriced) E and N series.
But if you really want the basics of the basics, look into the Motofone F3. Phone calls, text messages, and that's it. No games, no photos, no bells and whistles. Pretty robust and with a good battery life too."I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
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Quoth Mamadrae View PostHeh, cell folks dread me cause I walk into a store and go "I want a PHONE. No e-mail, text crap, internet capabilites, etc, etc, etc, and it has to be able to survive world war 3 for 2 years."
After finishing the 2yr contract, I set up my phone as "pay as you go" since I don't have the pizza job (and haven't had any luck getting back into it, of late ), and have my account set up to automatically charge my CC for $25/mo so the account doesn't go inactive (with service fees for re-activation), which is a lot cheaper than the $40/mo I was paying on a formal account. Mind you, even that 25/mo is still overkill for my needs, but experiences of me and others with more conventional pre-paid providers left me kinda cold, so to speak.
(Just for the record, the company I'm using currently is, after buyouts, the one represented by the blue Death Star logo. I know a lot of people have problems with them, but except for occasionally flaky internet connectivity none of the services I have with them give me any problems.)No matter how low my opinion of humanity as a whole gets, there are always over-achievers who seek to surpass my expectations.
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