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Post by bobbbiez on Feb 18, 2011 13:39:41 GMT -5
God, I absolutely hate cell phones! I have one but only use it for emergencies which I'm sure they were meant for in the first place. I'm sick of seeing people walk around like the phone is stuck to their ears. I'm sick of hearing phones ringing everywhere I go especially in business places or church. It's just plain annoying and rude. What the hell did everyone do before they were invented? What the hell does everyone have to talk about constantly that can't wait till you get home? It's all damn ridicules! I say fine the offenders hard and give them six points on their license.
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Post by stoney on Feb 18, 2011 14:32:34 GMT -5
I agree. We also just have one for emergencies which costs less than $10.00 per month. They all have terrible voice quality. Besides, I hate talking on the phone as it is & cringe when it rings. Why would I want to carry one with me & be bothered all the time? Pain in the dupa.
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Post by bobbbiez on Feb 18, 2011 16:34:36 GMT -5
OMG! We are related! Word for word, all came out of my mouth this morn when I was talking to my son about it.
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Post by Clipper on Feb 18, 2011 16:57:38 GMT -5
BZ loves cell phones. She loves them so much that she told me to leave mine at her camp so she could call herself from one cell phone and answer herself on the other. I don't talk on my phone when I am driving, and I shut it off or put it on vibrate when I am in a restaurant or someplace where it will bother others. I actually use it more than the house phone, as my sons and friends are all on the Verizon network and it costs me no air time to talk to them.
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Post by dgriffin on Feb 18, 2011 19:28:03 GMT -5
I've seldom used any but a cell phone in the past few years. It's a personal number I can give out and expect only those I know to call me. I carry it with my in my pants pocket like a set of keys. I don't think I've gotten more than a dozen nuisance calls in 2 or 3 years, if that many. I use it in speakerphone mode almost all the time. It's much more comfortable that way. I wouldn't in public, but I don't take calls in public. I simply call back when it's convenient. I don't use any of the other bells and whistles on the phone, but I imagine a more modern person would appreciate them and I can see why my kids have blackberry-like phones, although those devices wouldn't interest me.
Besides, I've wanted a Star Trek Communicator ever since I saw Captain Kirk call Scotty and ask to be beamed up. :}
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Post by Clipper on Feb 18, 2011 21:16:16 GMT -5
I am like you Dave, in that I don't use any bells and whistles. I have told my boys not to send text messages, and I have blocked the photo and internet from the phone. I simply TALK on it. Verbal communication, period. I have a middle of the road model LG phone. No keyboard, no touch screen or fancy stuff. I have no complaints. Voice communication is clear and good quality.
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Post by bobbbiez on Feb 18, 2011 23:08:51 GMT -5
Yeah Clipper and yours should have a chain on it (like they use on glasses) so you can put it around your neck so you don't leave it anywheres. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2011 9:47:59 GMT -5
I have a cell phone that was for free and I get free minutes once a month. I love to listen to other peoples conversations . I hear the darnest things. Like the time two ladies were talking about another lady who threw her baby across the room at her boyfriend because she was mad at him. LOL. I like watching people walk with their head down reading texts, I watched one guy almost walk headon into traffic on Genny, lol. I yelled out hey that was a close one-he just waved back with his head down.
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Post by chris on Feb 19, 2011 10:15:27 GMT -5
Alan...why would you think that is funny. I have a tracfone since my amount of talking is so limited to emergencies . (very much like BZ, Stoney and all others stated) It was hard giving up my phone I had for so long with AT&T but no regrets since except for the calls that can't be blocked since that is not a feature Tracfone wishes to utilize. I had it activated since last July so my savings so far are $122.00. I get double minutes and find bonus codes for extra minutes when buying time. I have an LG600 flip phone with a camera and it sends photos and text should I choose. Can't beat that.
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Post by stoney on Feb 19, 2011 11:01:10 GMT -5
Same here, Chris!
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Post by bobbbiez on Feb 19, 2011 12:06:03 GMT -5
Me too Chris. I have a Trac phone for any emergencies with the year plan and double minutes but with the phone calls I receive and make I still have my landline. Have a special with Time Warner for cable, phone and Internet so I did save by dropping Verizon.
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Post by Clipper on Feb 19, 2011 12:38:57 GMT -5
With family scattered across the Eastern states I am happy to pay the price for cell phone service. Kathy was in the hospital for two weeks last may with her friends and relatives calling daily to check her progress, and I have many friends and relatives in NY and Georgia as well as here in Bristol area that I talk to often. To me it is a convenience item that I don't mind at all paying for. I don't text, I shut off the texting so I would not receive texts or photos and have to pay for someone elses idea of humor in a joke or whatever. We spend a lot of time on the road and traveling, either locally or out of town. It is a privilege that I choose to pay for, such as getting fingernails done and pictures painted on them, or buying video games, or renting movies.
In case it hasn't been something that you have noticed, there are very few pay phones any more if one needs to call home from the store or call in an accident that you witness. To me, at our age, a cell phone is a safety device. Especially since we travel the roads as much as we do and spend time in RV parks and campgrounds in a normal summer. As far as having two phones, the house phone is simply a fairly inexpensive addition to the internet and cable package. Just another convenience.
THE LAWS SHOULD INCLUDE HIGH FINES FOR TEXTING AND TALKING ON THE PHONE WHILE DRIVING. NO ARGUMENT FROM ME THERE. But make it uniform. Why should cops be allowed to chat while driving? They have radios in the cars, and yet NY State cops are constantly seen with the damn cell phone to their ear. Check them out the next time you travel the Thruway or I81. Maybe they could buy a damn blue tooth hands free device??? What the heck. I am driving 65 or so, while they are passing me at 75 or 80 with the damn cell phone glued to their ear.
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Post by bobbbiez on Feb 19, 2011 13:04:30 GMT -5
All I know is the police are issued cell phones by their departments so there most be a legit reason for it. Plus, they are exempt from many laws we have to follow because they are an emergency vehicle. Guess you have to take it up with those departments and those who make the laws and do the exempting. ;D Bottom line is just because this one is doing it doesn't make it right or give an excuse to do the same. The use of cell phones have gotten way out of hand and not just in driving. Just last week in NY a kid fell off a ramp onto a train track cause he was testing on his phone. If it wasn't for a cop that was there who pulled the kid off the tracks, the kid would have been history. Too many stories like that with people walking/talking on their cells and not paying attention.
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Post by stoney on Feb 19, 2011 17:11:21 GMT -5
I'd like to know why they don't make it illegal for people to be talking on a CB or HAM radio while driving?
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Post by chris on Feb 19, 2011 17:45:12 GMT -5
here's a tip for you for ring tones. tracphone has awful ring tones. I used my recorder to copy my ring tone I paid for on AT&T from my old phone. Then used it as my ring tone on tracphone. you can preview ring tones so why not record what you want in a better format and get what you want instead of what they limit you to.
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