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Subject: Re: [OM] Phone Photo Apps
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 07:56:44 -0400
I think it will be a long time before I get where you are with the 
phone.  I'm happy to use the Wi-Fi but I'll never pay the freight for 
data usage over the cellular system.  We talk to our kids (on our and 
their landlines) about once a week.  That's plenty for us and them. 
Different strokes for...

Chuck Norcutt


On 5/2/2013 1:00 AM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> Once you experience the joy of the features provided by your new
> phone you will wonder how you ever lived without it. I love the fact
> that I can take a snap and have it on Facebook immediately so my
> children know that I am in Stuttgart right now (and why do they need
> to know? - well, maybe they don't but it is nice to keep in touch).
> On at least one occasion I have transferred money to my son in
> England using my iPhone when I had no computer available; and it is
> soooo nice to walk around a city and never be lost thanks to the map
> on the iPhone.
>
> I don't even know the number of my landline by heart.
>
> Cheers, Nathan
>
> On 2 May 2013, at 02:11, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> No humerous statements from me.  My wife and I have only had dumb
>> phones until a couple weeks ago.  Our previous phones were dumb
>> Verizon Samsung phones with a Verizon "senior" plan that was
>> costing us about $75 month. That gave us a shared 450 minutes/month
>> and I had all text messaging and data disabled.  Text was disabled
>> since the only text messages I ever got were spam and each one cost
>> me 10 cents.  Ugh!  The phones actually had (I think) 1.3MP
>> cameras.  Unfortunately, there was no way to retrieve an image for
>> viewing on another device other than sending it to Verizon (at high
>> data rates) where it could be retrieved and downloaded.
>>
>> Two weeks ago we decided to switch to Comsumer Cellular's AARP
>> plan. The savings are rather dramatic.  Since we only use the cell
>> phones while traveling or to call each other once in a while (stop
>> at the market on your way back and get some eggs) we were only
>> averaging less than 50 minutes/month.  We can get a Consumer
>> Cellular plan with 150 shared minutes/month (no text or data) for
>> about $30/month.  The charge is $10/month for two phones +
>> $15/month for 150 minutes (minus a 5% AARP discount).  That comes
>> to $23.75 + whatever the taxes and fees turn out to be.  Verizon
>> was charging me about 30% thus my guess of about $30/month overall.
>> Quite a difference.
>>
>> Although were were averaging less than 50 minutes/month there were
>> two months in the past year when we were traveling that we hit
>> about 150 and 200 minutes/month.  150 is still within the plan
>> limits and, if I went 50 minutes over it would cost me 50x23.75
>> cents/minute = $11.88. Nothing to worry about.
>>
>> Since we stand to save over $500/year on our cell phone bill I
>> decided to take $250 of that and get us a couple of Huawei Android
>> phones.  Mine was $150 and hers was $100.  We don't plan to use the
>> cell phone data network at all but the phones do have wi-fi.  We
>> expect that to be useful when traveling and stopped at a
>> restaurant, etc. which has free wi-fi service... Google search,
>> maps, GPS, etc.  They also have micro SD cards and USB connectors
>> so we can easily download the photos from the 3.2 MP cameras.
>> Nothing to write home about there but plenty good enough to take a
>> shot of something seen in the store to show the other. Being
>> Android devices they operate similarly to my Google Nexus 7
>> tablet.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt (now semi-modern)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/1/2013 2:50 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
>>> I don't have any favorites 'cause I have a dumb phone.
>>>
>>> (now time for your humerous statements about me having a dumb
>>> phone.)
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