Re: Ahoy Pie R8s! New Win11

On 2026-08-17, c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>    At some point soon I'm gonna need to buy a
>    half-ass big-screen "phone". HATE 'em. Keep
>    a little FLIP as my mobile now. My carrier is
>    not gonna support my great old landline much
>    longer - they've already raised the PRICE
>    insanely, hoping I'll quit. Clue, I'm NOT
>    gonna buy the new crap-phone from THEM - but
>    from another. Pref Android. Samsung phones
>    are gonna be IT.

If you can still get Shok to ship you the phone, the Schok
Classic flip phone is fairly good.  It claims to run actual
Android rather than Alcatel's Kai OS.  The virtual mouse cursor
works for a lot of web-app-y stuff.  Unfortunately, I think Schok
is phasing out their flip phones.

Your landline carrier sounds like Ziply.  If so I suggest caution
when porting a number.  About 1.5 years ago, I ported my 20+yo
landline number from Ziply to Ooma but wanted to continue the
FIOS internet service.  Despite a Ziply agent assuring me that
the internet service would continue without interruption, Ziply
shut down the internet service at 10pm on a Sunday night, which
caused me to miss a whole Monday of WFH.  Xfinity/Comcast had new
service functioning late Monday afternoon.  Ziply was ~24 hours
later, which would have cost 2 days of work.

Other than Ziply's lack of truthfulness and back-stabbing, the
switch to Ooma for the landline number has been very good.

-- 
Robert Riches
[email protected]
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)