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In reply to the discussion: Tell me why I need a smart phone [View all]UTUSN
(70,683 posts)I was the Last Old Man with a flip/clamshell phone. Although I am not a network-relationships dude, I was a little tired of being unconnected to the web while all around me everybody was swiping and sliding with their faces lighted up. I had finally started taking a tablet or laptop to one place with Wi-Fi, and this stuck out, too. So I finally took the jump to the most Basic web connection, plus the phone, and discovered that the Basic plan has a very low limit for web with the rest being Wi-Fi, so I'm back to that ONE place I go to with Wi-Fi and the same other ones withOUT it. The only difference is that I can get messaging and e-mails, although it's a mystery why some of the e-mails come in only via the phone and not through my general e-mail account: Some e-mails are in both, some by phone are lost except by phone.
Since I don't have any significant e-relationships, all I use it for is what I was doing without it. But then, I was also the Last Old Man without a cell phone at all and finally only got one because of a car breakdown and discovery that convenience stores no longer have pay phones or even phone books.