Hmm, this look pretty good: https://www.verizonwireless.com/smartphones/samsung-galaxy-s7/#sku=sku1900310?cmp=CSE-C-HQ-NON-R-AC-NONE-NONE-2C0PX0-PX-PLA-SMG930VZKA&cvosrc=cse.google.SMG930VZKA&cvo_crid=57663163287 Any comments?
Yeah, it's a phone. What I mean to say is that the smart phone has nearly become a commodity, with users falling into two basic camps: Android and iPhone. In the past, consumers were pretty tethered to their providers, who gave out huge discounts for signing contracts. But that seems to be separating, with users paying full price and avoiding contractual entanglements. As that progresses, cell service will also become a commodity. Within each camp (Android vs. iPhone and provider-to-provider), price will become the main (sole?) determinant, the true definition of a commodity. I'm an AT&T and iPhone guy. Whatever advantages there might be in features (phone) or costs (provider) would have to be huge to get me to go through the pain of switching either one. And they know that....
Check this out: Forget phablets, Huawei’s upcoming phone might as well be a small tablet https://www.yahoo.com/tech/forget-mere-phablet-size-huawei-111721744.html I don't know much about this stuff. Still looking to replace my old school LG Neon. Just looking for something that is as easy to use as possible, at a reasonable price.
I have no use for an advanced phone; mostly, it's only telemarketers who want to talk to me on a phone these days. But the digital cameras built into newer phones intrigue me. This is a page listing phones with camera resolutions from 41 megapixels (!) down to 21.5 or so. Highest Camera Resolution - Phonegg Amazing, when you consider the first digital Hasselblad camera had 27 megapixels of resolution -- and cost, IIRC, $27,000! Back a few years, film photographers who still despised digital cameras claimed that r digital results equal to 35 mm film needed 15 megapixels of resolution - and likely 25 megapixels to equal medium-format film. At that time, such resolutions were pretty well unobtainable - now they're commonplace -- even on phones! I wonder if the lenses on most of these high-resolution phone-cameras are up to the same high standards as the sensors - or to the standards those nice Leica, Schneider, Carl Zeiss, etc. lenses that are features of some not-awfully-expensive standalone digital cameras these days? J.
"I have no use for an advanced phone; mostly, it's only telemarketers who want to talk to me on a phone these days." Yeah, I hear you. I am perfectly happy with my old school cell phone. But people keep telling me i need to keep up with technology. Maybe they are right, I don't know. I guess I have to switch sooner or later. I do know my old cell phone costs me about $100.00 of minutes per year more or less. Cheap. New phone = monthly payments. Arggh!!! Can I afford it? Yes, do it like it? No.
You are going to love the flip phone. You can probably buy $100.00 worth of minutes, or $25.00 at a time. $100.00 lasts me about 1 year. Damn! You are my type of girl, though I know we are both taken already! :smile: That is why I resist one of the fancy new school smart type phones, the monthly payment. I mean, my old LG Neon does what I need it to. The mechanic calls me? Bam - get the car - ok! Very few people have my cell phone number anyway. My dad has a flip phone. That thing is solid! You can probably drive over it, and it still works. He loves that phone, and no monthly fees.
That's what I have... I've had it about 8 years; my son gave it to me one Christmas. I love it, just like your dad does -- for the same reasons. It has a camera and my wallpaper is always the newest pic taken with it (by my son) of my grandchildren. I get him to change it every couple of years. I never use the phone to take pictures. If I want to take pictures - well, that's what my camera is for; I have 6 digital cameras and always one with me. Nobody needs six - any more than they need six cars - but five came to me very cheaply and I love all six. Not a bad hobby.... J.
