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April 29, 2023

📱🖥 What Do U Like/Dislike About YOUR Cell/WiFi PROVIDER? What DEVICE(s) Are U Using?

  • April 29, 2023
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(1) Getting very COMPETITIVE out there = PROMISES from THEM to us (affordable plans). 🙄

 

(2) WE would luv to hear from U! 🙃

 

Nicole 📱🖥 (Technology Forum)

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wilful
Contributor ⭐⭐⭐
May 31, 2023

My cell is a OnePlus and I use Google Fi. It has unlimited calls & texts. It can be used in foreign countries without putting in a different sim card.  My cost runs from 19 to 23 monthly.

Community Manager
June 1, 2023

1 comment (Thursday 6/1/23)

 

📋How To SAVE Money on Cell Phone Service.

 

Any comments? 🤔

 

(1) Switch to a New Cell Phone Carrier.

 

(2) Know How Much Data You Need.

 

(3) Add Lines or Join a Family Plan.

 

(4) Sign Up for Autopay.

 

(5) Ask About Additional Discounts.

 

(7) Don’t Upgrade Your Phone.

 

(8) Drop the Cell Phone Insurance.

 

🗣MY COMMENT: I am on my daughter's T-Mobile cell plan and ONLY "upgrade" when I have to. I already feel bad about her paying my bill - she insists.

Tempest332
Community Champion ⭐
June 7, 2023

@Anonymous 

 

Communications utilities (cable, phones.. etc.) tend to be the biggest ripoff, & folks just rationalize they can't be without these things now.   I'm likely going to lose my current pay as you go plan toward the end of this year.   This works wonders for me since I don't use it much.   I don't see where #3 would work (adding lines?).  Autopay with communications, they're the  only utilities I didn't allow "Carte Blanche" with my checking account, as I never knew when they were going to slip something in unknowingly. 

 

Community Manager
June 3, 2023

1 comment (Saturday 6/3/23)

 

I "prefer" these BUT the NEW "prices" since they are now POPULAR!!! 😱😱😱

 

Any comments? 🤔

 

BEST foldable phones of 2023 | Tom's Guide.

 

🗣By Philip Michaels last 6/1/23.

 

👉Phones information👈 

 

Nicole 🙃

Tempest332
Community Champion ⭐
June 7, 2023

Ouch & @ what cost.... my flip phone (Alcatel A406DL) that is supposevely smart was $19.99 back in January... so yes I had to get a new phone this year the hinge went bad on the LG at the end of the year (lasted just less than 2 years).   As it tries to be a "smart" phone, the Software is wonky on it & sometimes painful to navigate, I don't use it that much though, much rather use my home phone. 

Community Manager
June 7, 2023

(2 comments) Anyone purchased a NEW Cell phone this year? 🤔

 

I need to upgrade myself....

 

Nicole 🙃

MsStretch
Community Champion ⭐⭐
June 7, 2023

@Anonymous , talk to your daughter and she can probably set you up with a new phone on her family plan.

Community Manager
June 15, 2023

📱🖥 You Don’t Need to Pay for Antivirus, Experts Say (AARP Article)

 

🗣By Rob Pegoraro, AARP. February 27, 2023.

 

👉Link to information👈 

 

Any comments? 🤔

 

I am using the one that came with my android.

 

Nicole 🙃

Community Manager
June 16, 2023

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(1) Getting very COMPETITIVE out there = PROMISES from THEM to us (affordable plans). 🙄

 

(2) WE would luv to hear from U! 🙃

 

Nicole 📱🖥 (Technology Forum)


EricC28201
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
January 17, 2024

I may sound like an old broken record fuddy duddy. I can remember when all we had was landlines the older generation (our parents & grandparents) complained about phone calls interrupting Dinner Time...etc.. They called it an invasion of privacy yadda yadda yadda.
But...
Now that phones are strapped to our hips they are literally a constant presence. And although this state of affairs has led to repeated examples of dangerously addictive behavior, we take them for granted. Like a drunk or a junky thinking they can't live without their substance of choice.
With landlines we had prank calls, phone sex, harassment calls and telemarketers. Now we have all that plus distracted driving, location tracking, hacking, and the murky hazards of social media on top of, "Why the .... didn't you answer the phone? I know you have a cell! What do you mean it was turned off...are you trying to hide something?".
Technology is only as good or bad as we use it. I like having an emergency communication device on my person. I like being able to make and receive phone calls more easily. I don't like the wrecklessly competetive environment and manner in which the overall package evolved.
....Turn phones off when driving...turn phones off during meals...turn phones off during meetings - church or otherwise...students in classrooms don't need to have phones (especially pre-collegiate students)...what the heck...if you're taking a walk with a loved-one, turn the flippin' phone off and flip-off anyone who tries to chastise you for doing so.
Really, if we just mitigate our egos with a little mindful humility we can reduce stress simply by accepting that we are not so important that we have to be 'Connected' and 'Available' all the time.  This would contribute to a culture that manages technology instead of being managed by the purveyors of technology.

Tempest332
Community Champion ⭐
January 18, 2024

Bet you can remember the party line too (I can). 

 

Still have a landline (though now a VOIP) & an answering machine, that is filled with hangups, & calls for Medicare supplements, my ID log is filled to the point I wouldn't know if I got a legit call. 

 

My mobile was off recently for over 10 days & I didn't realize it.  Debating of canning it, though costing me about $80-90 a year. Though seldom look at it or use it. 

 

I'm one of the few not living in the mobile phone cult. 

SummerOnTheWay1
Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
January 18, 2024

1 comment (Wednesday 1/17/24)

 

Lol, yes, @Tempest332 - my Grandparents had one and whenever I spent the Summer Holidays (school) I would "listen in" on all the gossip!!!  😂🤣

 

Now of course it was NO FUN when I NEEDED to make a call.  🙄

 

Had to keep "checking" to see IF I got a DIAL TONE instead of VOICES.