Y'all need to hook me up!

[notalwaysright]

The teachers in my computer classes have a blanket rule. No arguing about iFruit vs anything. It's a good rule.

I've had smart phones for I want to say about 6 years. I haven't (knock on wood!) broken any of them so far. Toward the time when I am due for an upgrade sometimes little things start glitching, but nothing major. I do normally use my phone for pics, but if I was to travel I would most likely use an actual camera. Not the cheapest point and shoot, though.

[morgana]

Anybody remember the LG Chocolate? Yeah; eleven years this month. I call it 'the dinosaur.'

I really should join the 21st century sometime soon, I suppose.

[BlaqueKatt]

Are the super-expensive phones just more breakable or something?

well a large glass screen is a tad breakable

Maybe they are better and I'm just not aware of the differences because I've never had one. Educate me?

(I have a galaxy S4)I'm on the internet almost constantly with mine, also I haven't touched a digital camera in over 6 years(I own 3 of them), I've only used my phone.

[Food Lady]

I've had cell phones since the beginning, and while I do drop them from time to time, I've only had to make one insurance claim, over 15 years ago. Are the super-expensive phones just more breakable or something? I've always had the cheapest options, excepting the first LG Envie. (Oh, how I loved that phone.) And I've never had the ifruit phones because I don't like 'em. So I have no idea why people pay hundreds of dollars for phones that do the same thing as my cheap Android. OK, sorry if you like the fruity phones; no intent to offend. Maybe they are better and I'm just not aware of the differences because I've never had one. Educate me?

[Aragarthiel]

Mine's been surviving with a measly 5 minutes on it for a couple of months. I don't even use it to talk with anymore, I keep it for alarms and emergencies. If I need to contact Hubs about something, Yahoo Messenger has a texting feature I can use for free.

[EricKei]

Ara - Yeah. This thing goes forever, too. As long as 5 days on a single charge (sometimes more), but then, I use maybe 2 hours of talk time per month (tons of texts, tho). It doesn't support any true apps (non touchscreen), and its internet is a joke...but that's fine by me. I use my actual computer for both of those

[wolfie]

My cousin is someone that can't get cell phone insurance anymore. Any phone she owns is lucky to last 6 months (most don't make it past 3 months.)

I guess I'm the other extreme. My cellphone will be 9 years old in September, and wasn't the top of the line when I got it. I'm looking to replace it, but only because I want to get a smartphone. What was it that Han said to Obi Wan when he saw the lightsabre?

My in-laws can't get insurance on any of their phones anymore because my 15-year-old sister-in-law admittedly intentionally breaks her phones to get new ones. Right now she has some sort of iFruit thing with a cracked screen, but it works otherwise, and they're refusing to get her a new one.

Intentionally breaking her phones to get new ones? Sounds like someone needs some training. Let's say she's got a FruitPhone5, and wants to get a 6, so she breaks the 5. Parents should either not replace it, or get a used FruitPhone4 to replace it. She breaks that? Replaced with a FruitPhone3. No upgrades until she can go 2 years without breaking her phone.

[Aragarthiel]

Mine's a flip phone too, but needs replaced. The keys have started coming off and somehow it has survived being chewed on by a baby almost daily and even spit up in once. That was fun to clean out. My phone's best feature though? When the phone is off, or even when the battery's completely dead, the alarm will go off to remind me to take my pill every day. The battery usually lasts 2-3 days on one charge, but the alarm will continue to go for a week after the battery dies.

[EricKei]

I use a flip-phone myself. An Alcatel "Big Easy Flip" -- while I was saddened to discover that the device's name has nothing to to with my hometown ^_^;> ...I was delighted to find that it has relatively huge dialing buttons/numbers on it, a feature that comes in handy when you're as nearsighted as I am. That, and I have these huge mitts for hands. I can actually text on the damn thing without getting little callouses on my thumb. We loves it....our precioussssss...

[Ironclad Alibi]

Dave's not here!

I think he's visiting Hal.

[HotelMinion]

I'm glad that I don't have those fancy android T6000000 or whatever everyone else has. Mine is a small flip phone and has a hard shell so it doesn't break into a million pieces. People laugh at how uncool it is but I laugh when they show me their barely together held phone with tape.
I lol'd most at when you ask, "Where are you located?" "In the woods." Oh boy...

[EricKei]

DGC - Yup! Safelink is one of the companies that the program uses. I think the providers (e.g., Safelink) vary by region.

[Aragarthiel]

My in-laws can't get insurance on any of their phones anymore because my 15-year-old sister-in-law admittedly intentionally breaks her phones to get new ones. Right now she has some sort of iFruit thing with a cracked screen, but it works otherwise, and they're refusing to get her a new one.

[Mr Hero]

Me: Are you at home right now?
SC: No, I'm at Dave's house.

Dave's not here!

[dalesys]

... *knocks on wood*

Stop thet thompin' on mah haid!