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Rod Speed wrote
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Even just 1 or two a year is worth doing the
right way when its free, luddite dinosaur.

Nothing is free.

That's bull**** too. It costs no more to use it for that
when you already have the phone for other reasons.

I have a phone to use as a phone, it doesn't have a NAV,
broadband capability or anything like that, it is very
cheap to own, particularly when it is sitting at home

Yes, you actually are that luddite a dinosaur.

but if I bought a "smart phone" with a data plan,
GPS and all the "free ****" you are talking about
it would cost hundreds of dollars for the phone
and way more per year to have.

But when you have it already, because it is handy
to be able to get it to direct you to where you
need to go or just to check if the price you see
on offer is the best available and then you choose
to use it to work out which aisle something you
don't usually buy is in the supermarket etc,
THAT particular extra capability really is free.

And in fact my phone is MUCH cheaper per
year than the landline ever was. I was paying
$35 a month for the landline service alone,
with calls made extra cost. With the cellphone
it costs me just $10 per month with unlimited
FREE calls, texts and MMSs to any landline or
cellphone in the country and 1GB of data.

And I get the real advantage of having just
one set of contacts and having it all fully
automatically backed up to the cloud so
that if it dies, or gets lost or stolen I just
replace it and yawn and enter my ID and
have the new phone identical to the old
one content wise. And can use another
phone to find the original, or watch the
thief trying to use the stolen phone, all
for FREE.

Nothing is free.

Wrong, as always. Even breathing is still
free even in the land of the ripoff merchants.