hee hee dogmom. I agree. Count me in as a member of your subversive group.
hee hee dogmom. I agree. Count me in as a member of your subversive group.
Hehe! I'm also the only person in the world who has never sent a text!Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackdog Lin
No smartphone for me. I don't plan on getting one anytime soon either. Hate how absorbed people are in their phones these days. It's sad in my opinion. They're missing out on so much, like interactions with other human beings and communing with nature. I also don't want people being able to contact me 24/7. We have a basic cellphone for emergencies, and that's it....
I've never texted either! We're dinosaurs! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dogmom
I have a Virgin Mobile LG Optimus. Cost is $55 per month for unlimited phone, text and web. I don't have a land line anymore so I chose the unlimited plan. I LOVE that woman that lives in my phone that navigates me to places. She has NEVER made a mistake. I don't have GPS so that is handy. My son likes to communicate with texting so it is helpful to have that. I occasionally use it to get my email when I'm out and about and waiting for something. I love having my address book always handy. When I was traveling and I used MAPS all the time for local bus routes in different cities. It was great. I'd also use it to find places I could use my credit union ATM without fees -- there is an app for that. I love it.
Neither my husband nor I have smart phones. We share 1 simple tacfone between us which actually gets used about twice a month.
I know of at least 12 other people on earth who don't have smart phones: my 12 sponsored kids in developing countries. Some of them don't even have running water or proper sanitation much less the latest electronic geegaw. Not to rain on anybody's parade but folks who have smart phones are a small minority of the global population. Just something to keep in mind.
I just have an old pay-as-you-go tracfone not a smart phone but I actually like the fact that it comes with a web browser and e-mail capability so that, if I'm expecting an important e-mail, text or call, I can be out and about doing other things (playing in the woods or at the beach!!) and not be "enslaved" in my house waiting. I turn it off or don't even look at it otherwise. No more waiting breathless all day at home by the pink Princess phone waiting for the dreamboat to call anymore :-)!Quote:
Originally Posted by dogmom
It mostly just costs too much money (the monthly bill). I mean sure it would be nice to have if it was free ...
Not for long, I bet. I edited an on-line course on PDAs and smart phones in 2000, when Asia was way ahead of us in technology and market saturation. Africa's smart phone use has exploded, and is now the fastest-growing market worldwide. According to this article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...inance-farming, half the population of Africa owns one. Certainly, smart phones were key in the Arab Spring movement. It looks like the "global village" we've heard so much about will be connected by 4G technology--and I find that pretty exciting, even if I don't have a smart phone and probably won't. I'll likely just hang onto my basic cell and get a tablet eventually.Quote:
Originally Posted by MaryHu
It is so much easier in developing countries to put up a few poles and have everyone go cellular than it is to run a wire to each house. So many industrializing economies are bypassing the wireline phone altogether in favor of cellular communication.
Related, I saw a statistic from the U.N. that stated, in 2009, there were more than four billion cell phone subscriptions in the world. The "more developed" countries tend to have more mobile phones than people, as one might expect. But the ITU study states that mobile-phone penetration rates were approaching almost one-third of Africans (again, back in 2009ish). Those appear to be "dumbphones", however, since mobile broadband penetration was around 1% in the developing world. The world is getting "smarter".