XPost: comp.mobile.android, sci.electronics.repair   
      
   On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:10:15 -0700, mike  wrote:   
      
   >Summary:  I use my tablet a lot more than I thought I would.   
   >   
   >Tablets come in two sizes.   
   >1) too small to read and operate with fat fingers.   
   >2) too big/heavy to hold comfortably.   
   >   
   SInce I'm elderly, I dont have thge best eyesight anymore. Cellphones   
   are way to small for me to see anything. One guy I know is always   
   shoving his phone in my face and saying look at this. I repeatedly have   
   to tell him I cant read it, and if it's a picture, I only see a blur. I   
   do not make a habit of carrying around my reading glasses. I only have   
   them on me if I plan to read something. And yea, the keys are too small   
   on all that stuff. I like a REAL keyboard. I always have a tough time   
   doing texts on my flipphone.   
      
   Anyhow, even if a laptop computer is large and hard to hold, it is much   
   better for me to use.   
      
   >The obvious solution is to have two or four.   
      
   Nah, too much stuff to buy and maintain.   
   My cellphone (flipphone) is just a phone, and that is all I really need   
   to have with me. But if I want to use a WIFI, I have to plan in advance   
   and bring my laptop with me. That's not always convenient, but it works.   
   Besides that, owning a smartphone is too costly for my budget. I mostly   
   just have a cellphone for emergency calls, but it does come in handy to   
   call businesses to see if they have what I need, or if they are open,   
   (when I am not home). But a prepaid cellphone is fairly cheap as long as   
   the calls are short, whereas a contract for a smartphone is costly,   
   especially when they allow for enough data to actually watch videos or   
   spend considerable time shopping ebay or something like that.   
      
   These days, a person almost MUST have at least a basic cellphone,   
   because there are no longer any pay phones, and in an emergency one   
   needs some way to contact for help. But if I want to call and talk to a   
   friend for an hour, I use my landline. I must keep my landline, because   
   where I live (rural area), cellphone service is poor. Heck, a couple   
   years ago, I saw smoke coming out of a building and could not get a cell   
   signal, and there were no pay phones. By the time I drove to a place   
   where I could get a phone signal, that building was entirely in flames   
   and it was a total loss.   
      
   I later spoke with someone from the fire dept, and was told that they   
   have been trying to get a cell tower in that area for years and all they   
   get is a runaround. He said the population is too small to make it   
   profitable. I proceeded to complain about why they removed the pay phone   
   in that town, which was still there about 7 years ago, when they knew   
   that there is no cell service there. He said they fought that with the   
   local phone company too, and was told that pay phones were no longer   
   maintained. Personally, none of that makes any sense.... Why was there   
   better service back in the days before 2010? And why is maintaining a   
   pay phone so difficult? It could have prevented a major fire, and could   
   even save a life. STUPID STUPID....   
      
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