Re: T-Mobile Sprint Merger: Say goodbye to scam calls

On 03/08/2020 00.56, 123456789 wrote:
> Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> 123456789 wrote:
> 
>>> I picked up a smartphone on my local Target department store discount 
>>> rack awhile back for $15 US. I use it when puttering around the house 
>>> as an Android iPod. It also streams radio stations
>>> from around the world. Works great without either a data plan OR a
>>> phone plan...
> 
>> a smartphone without a dataplan is useless.
> 
> The smartphone mentioned above is quite USEFUL to me. At $15 it was
> quite a bit cheaper than I originally paid for my old iPod and I use it
> for pretty much the same thing.
> 
>> I can not check the map while I'm on the street; I can not get a 
>> message (here we don't use SMS, we use Whatsapp). I can not do many 
>> things that I do normally till I arrive home to my wifi. These days,
>>  to get the menu listing of a restaurant, I have to make a photo of 
>> its QR code at the door and look it up online, as it is not printed in 
>> a board.
> 
> Course not. Neither can I. I have another considerably more expensive
> smartphone for my regular smartphone business. That doesn't mean my
> el-cheapo around-the-house smartphone isn't USEFUL. It's about the third
> the size and fits in my shirt pocket nicely. Very USEFUL. And BTW did I
> mention that it's USEFUL?
> 
>> So of course I need a data plan to use a smartphone as intended, as 
>> designed. It is a gadget invented to be used on the move with Internet 
>> access.
> 
> Of course you do. As always YMMV.
> 
>> That you can live without it? Sure.
> 
> I think you are actually arguing with Arlen here. He's the one the one
> that wants a sans-data plan phone. I simply pointed out that a disemboweled
> smartphone can actually be quite USEFUL... ;)

Well, I pointed out that I agreed with the *generic* statement that a 
smartphone without a dataplan is useless, with a big smile. You can 
demonstrate exceptions, and so can I; I have an active smartphone 
without a dataplan. But instead of having a conversation as everybody 
else here and having a good time, he resorts to insulting me because I 
do not agree with him.

{chuckle}


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Cheers, Carlos.