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Joe Obenberger · 04-04-2012, 07:29 PM

OK, I no longer possess an operational "Cell Phone".

Now I am using a "mobile device", a smartphone with a dual-core processor and more computing power, by far, than the Apollo capsule that sailed to the moon had onboard.

And I promise not to make much fun about its name, ATRIX 2, which frankly sounds like a derogatory term that escorts would use among themselves to describe their clients who have exotic and unhygenic interests.

All of this is more than I personally care about - but I learned at Phoenix that two parties tried to get hold of me by email to set up meetings, and had not mutual friends intervened to help, we never would have met. Doesn't anyone use text or make phone calls anymore? OK. I surrendered today and joined the 4G world, kicking and screaming.

After 16 years, Verizon finally lost me today, too. Where once a repair department stood, staffed with sincere, energetic, and talented technicians, today there stands a security guard, and that says it all. Where once well over one hundred choices were on display, now there are only 21 choices. I counted them. They even have a rigid, automated sign-in protocol with limited choices, and if none of them fit your situation, the people tell you chose any of them, it doesn't matter. Seldom have I more conspicuously felt like a cattle being pushed down a chute than I have with Verizon during the past few days.

All I wanted was to replace my serviceable LG flip phone with qwerty keyboard when some of the keys started to work erratically, and I've learned that though the phone is still out there, none of the majors deal with it because they want you to chose between junk that would be unsuitable for a junior high kid or the smartphones that come with an expensive data plan. If I had to make that choice, I wasn't going to give Verizon the benefit of it. The simple repair of a foil connector printed circuit would probably have fixed the old phone, but repair doesn't seem like an option anymore. So now, I'm with a Sprint unlimited data plan.

Now I gotta figure out how it works, and it doesn't look easy.

04-04-2012, 07:29 PM
Joe Obenberger Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago Posts: 466	Finally Got A Smart Phone Today - Five Years After the Rest of the Adult Internet OK, I no longer possess an operational "Cell Phone". Now I am using a "mobile device", a smartphone with a dual-core processor and more computing power, by far, than the Apollo capsule that sailed to the moon had onboard. And I promise not to make much fun about its name, ATRIX 2, which frankly sounds like a derogatory term that escorts would use among themselves to describe their clients who have exotic and unhygenic interests. All of this is more than I personally care about - but I learned at Phoenix that two parties tried to get hold of me by email to set up meetings, and had not mutual friends intervened to help, we never would have met. Doesn't anyone use text or make phone calls anymore? OK. I surrendered today and joined the 4G world, kicking and screaming. After 16 years, Verizon finally lost me today, too. Where once a repair department stood, staffed with sincere, energetic, and talented technicians, today there stands a security guard, and that says it all. Where once well over one hundred choices were on display, now there are only 21 choices. I counted them. They even have a rigid, automated sign-in protocol with limited choices, and if none of them fit your situation, the people tell you chose any of them, it doesn't matter. Seldom have I more conspicuously felt like a cattle being pushed down a chute than I have with Verizon during the past few days. All I wanted was to replace my serviceable LG flip phone with qwerty keyboard when some of the keys started to work erratically, and I've learned that though the phone is still out there, none of the majors deal with it because they want you to chose between junk that would be unsuitable for a junior high kid or the smartphones that come with an expensive data plan. If I had to make that choice, I wasn't going to give Verizon the benefit of it. The simple repair of a foil connector printed circuit would probably have fixed the old phone, but repair doesn't seem like an option anymore. So now, I'm with a Sprint unlimited data plan. Now I gotta figure out how it works, and it doesn't look easy. __________________ Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice. . . Restraint in the pursuit of Justice is no virtue. Senator Barry Goldwater, 1964 Last edited by Joe Obenberger; 04-04-2012 at 07:31 PM..