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Originally Posted by kane
Here's the thing about that. I can go to just about any cell phone provider and get an iphone or a basic smartphone (neither the newest model) for free and pay around $40-$50 per month for the service. I just looked on the website for my local phone company and to get a basic phone line I would have to pay around $35 a month. So having a smartphone is not a sign of wealth.
Another option is that I could spend about $100 on a phone and use a carrier like Ting and spend maybe $20-$25 a month on service.
I would agree that is someone can afford to go plunk down $600 for a new phone then maybe they don't need assistance, but having a basic smartphone is not really any more expensive than having a home phone.
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"Rochead" is out of his mind.
He's displaying the kind of misplaced anger poor people suffer if they do anything except
appear to be broken souls in public.
For all we know all the phones could be turned off; but these people are so paranoid
about looking broke that they pretend to use the phone to look important.
I confess that I carried a cell phone for a month back in the 1990's and it was never turned on.
It was in LA and I had meetings to go to.
Here's the exact model phone I faked with :
I found it useful even when turned off because it was heavy enough to beat the shit out of any attacker.
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