Let me share a lesson I learned last month.
There are better ways to keep your cell phone clean than putting it though a laundry load, including spin. While it will come out truly clean, it also won't work very well. Except as a paper weight.
Because of the miracle of insurance with a $50 deductible, I now have a refurbished phone that they'll sell you for .01 if you sign a two year contract.
The old phone was a dependable Motorola Razor. The new phone is...well, the new phone's manual (online only of course) doesn't get to making a call till page 31. Honest.
I'm still figuring out some of the most basic aspects, and I'm not using it to tweet or post on Facebook....just make calls (OK, also to take photos, though my success rate there is about 1 in 5. I now have a cell phone with a higher MP rating than my actual photo camera. I think that means it is time for a new camera too, so I may leave it around my neck in the shower.)
The new phone is a smartphone. Too smart. It knows where I am better than I do. It guesses what I'm going to write quicker than I guess what I'm going to write. It will go online and sit there, apparently forever, when the not-so-smart owner doesn't close a browser. (I still have to work that one out with billing assistance, which is one of the dozen or so numbers already programmed into it.)
At this point I am seriously considering making friends by using those built-in numbers to call the billing and ringtone sales people since they may be the only people I'll be able to call for a while.
The new phone is drenched in the subscription economy.
Want to listen to music on your phone? No problem! Just press 5 and pay XXX a month.
Want a GPS program to help you not get lost? Press 8...
Want to keep track of your smartphone friends whereabouts? Just press...
I could press myself into a few hundred dollar a month cell phone bill, without ever making a call. Other than to Lou. My new bff at billing.
There are better ways to keep your cell phone clean than putting it though a laundry load, including spin.Because of the miracle of insurance with a $50 deductible, I now have a refurbished phone that they'll sell you for .01 if you sign a two year contract.
The old phone was a dependable Motorola Razor. The new phone is...well, the new phone's manual (online only of course) doesn't get to making a call till page 31. Honest.
I'm still figuring out some of the most basic aspects, and I'm not using it to tweet or post on Facebook....just make calls (OK, also to take photos, though my success rate there is about 1 in 5. I now have a cell phone with a higher MP rating than my actual photo camera. I think that means it is time for a new camera too, so I may leave it around my neck in the shower.)
The new phone is a smartphone. Too smart. It knows where I am better than I do. It guesses what I'm going to write quicker than I guess what I'm going to write. It will go online and sit there, apparently forever, when the not-so-smart owner doesn't close a browser. (I still have to work that one out with billing assistance, which is one of the dozen or so numbers already programmed into it.)
At this point I am seriously considering making friends by using those built-in numbers to call the billing and ringtone sales people since they may be the only people I'll be able to call for a while.
The new phone is drenched in the subscription economy.
Want to listen to music on your phone? No problem! Just press 5 and pay XXX a month.
Want a GPS program to help you not get lost? Press 8...
Want to keep track of your smartphone friends whereabouts? Just press...
I could press myself into a few hundred dollar a month cell phone bill, without ever making a call. Other than to Lou. My new bff at billing.
He sees you when your sleeping,
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