frayne
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Smartphones are nothing more than a tool that makes life easier. Like any tool only as good as the knowledge and expertise of the user.
We have a Mazda CX-5 with built in nav. No smartphone needed
I been in a few cars with built in Nav (including our Nissan) and have yet find one that even comes close to Google maps.
Don't want one. Just another burden.
How do you non-smartphone folks call for Uber or equivalent if needed?
How can those of you without a smartphone keep up with all the latest and greatest posts on this forum? You might miss something on the happily married, singles or even the viagra threads! Don’t you want to be in the know?
We have 2 iphones and 2 ipads. Most use is texting because the young ones always do that. BUt recently I received a check. I download the banks app so I could deposit the image. Now I use the app for monitoring spending in real time and tracking the portfolio. DW has a full plan on her 8Plus and I just have text and voice on my 4S. We have a GPS but prefer Waze because of the real time aspect.We both have smartphones. I use mine a lot for check deposit, reading news, ordering online, online checking and boarding pass when we travel, walk navigation in big cities and sometimes car navigation but I mostly use my car's navigation system. DW on the other hand uses it primarily for phone and text and periodically for navigation but she prefers her portable Garmin GPS. The main feature for her is her ability to communicate with her family overseas using Whatsapp and skype for audio and video calling and texting.
A few weeks ago, I was notified by our pro football team that our season tickets will not arrive in the mail but will only be available on the their app. People without smartphones will have to contact their customer service department. You think they would have giving us the courtesy of choosing which method we would like to use.......
Yes the main phone calls are between spouse and I. We do find that we have to omit the cell phone when making appointments because the young ones default to calling the cell. My drug insurance provider wants me to switch to their app. So far I have resisted.My smartphone gets lots of use, sometimes even for calls...
I was in downtown Toronto for a financial meetup and my battery died. Could not remember the location but I knew one of the guys attending so I stopped in at a restaurant and asked the proprietor to call him! Disaster averted. I don't live in Toronto.My iPhone 6 died while I was taking a trip in my 30 yr old hobby car. I had to navigate from toll booth to toll booth. I bare remembered the address I was going to (only because I had to manually enter it into the GPS). I was also going to meet some friends for lunch but I didn’t have their numbers memorized. Never felt so helpless in all my life.
I understand that an old phone can be used to dial 911 even if you are not on a service plan.
You are working, you're a farmer. I know, you just love it so it's not really work.
But everyone else in the world will tell you it's hard work. My buddy tells me his dad (farmer for life) has hands that will never be clean because the dirt has been tattooed in.
When I retired. I decided that I wanted to live very rural in a lush forest. After so many years of being retired I can say that I have done this.
Being tethered to the internet is not a requirement for living in the woods.
In our township we have cell signal [most townships in this state do not have cell signal].
Inside my house I have wifi. [the only wifi that exists in my town is the wifi provided by homeowners in their homes].
This forum is about 'early retirement'. I worked out my path to supporting my family without any need for me to work, and I accomplished the quest at 42.
I do not see how any of this is improved upon by being connected 24/7.
After a bunch of years of being retired, I am finally learning to relax a bit. Yet in this thread the discussion sounds like it wants me to go back to work again.
You make the false assumption (and arrogant?) that people with internet are "tethered" to it 24/7.
Internet is connected 24/7...so it's there whenever a person wants it. It's not a leash.
You somehow managed to reply to this thread, so you do use the internet, even if it's rare. If you're not paying for it, then you're just piggybacking on someone else's dime....and then lecturing us while doing that.