[PLUG] [OT?] Do functional cell phones exist?

[Tyrell Jentink]

OK, I revise my previous answer... IF you are precluding devices capable of
getting on the internet altogether, then that boat sailed circa 2005. I'm
not really kidding...  That's when Cingular and Verizon switched off their
Analog towers, and forced everyone over to Digital... ALL of the
Digital-voice capable phones have always been more electronic than
electrical.

Although (And this feels strongly reminiscent of a rant I went on during
your transition to Linux about the nature of "Multiuser"), I'm not
convinced you actually understand what you're asking for.  A flip phone
will be more remeniscent of a dial-up terminal (The kinds used by telecoms
back in the 1980s to dial into data centers) than a functional computer;
Yes, it may have a "Web Browser," but no one would be satisfied with it's
support for HTML or CSS; And it might also have a VERY limited Java virtual
machine, but it is VERY limited (For both security reasons, and technical
limitations).  I'm really not sure what you THINK your after, but that
Samsung is about as "Dumb" as anything I was suggesting...

--
Tyrell Jentink

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net>
wrote:

> On 12/22/2015 11:57 PM, wes wrote:
> > I'll mail you my Samsung SGH-A107 if you want it.
> >
> > http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003MW0OIQ
> >
> > -wes
>
> Thanks for the reply.
> However <*GRIN*>, it has two down-checks:
>    1. ATT has worst "customer Service" (sic) known to mankind.
>    2. According to Section 11 of its _User Manual_ [retrieved from
>
> http://theinformr.com/upload/manuals/samsung-sgh-a107-manual.pdf]
>       It is internet capable, therefore is computer not phone ;/
>
>
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:44 PM, Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm a senior citizen who has been referred to as living "out past
> >> Estacada, even."
> >> As a convert from Windoz(tm) to *nix I presume "do 1 thing. Do it
> >> well."
> >> Elderly relatives demand that I obtain cell connectivity.
> >> I will cave in to their demands *IF* I can find a hand held
> >> object capable of placing VOICE telephone calls that is *NOT* a
> >> disguised main-frame of yesteryear.
> >>
> >> Signed "Frustrated Yankee living in 'Show Me State" ;/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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