On the lighter side.....
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After 20 years of loyalty and hard use, my flip phone finally died. RIP old buddy!
Got a lightly used XR for cheap....now I have to learn to text.
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I see a miss spelled word on your new phone should be Wipe not Swipe, I still have a flip off fone it is the newest POS cant see it in the sun have to know what F___ app to use to answer it cant see the screen to select it...... used to just open it and talk....
TEXT THIS, what the hell is wrong with talking.... awh crap I still sitting on the key board another 40 minutes, yes on a PC
Just because you can doesn’t mean you have to text. Just saying ...After 20 years of loyalty and hard use, my flip phone finally died. RIP old buddy!
Got a lightly used XR for cheap....now I have to learn to text.
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joshb
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Oh no! Wy wife is telling everyone! She sees it as some kind of victory, dragging this old Dinosaur into the future.
scasa
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After 20 years of loyalty and hard use, my flip phone finally died. RIP old buddy!
Got a lightly used XR for cheap....now I have to learn to text.
Now you can run your ballistic app right on your phone, get current weather. and GPS rangefinder . Whats not to like.
Oh no! Wy wife is telling everyone! She sees it as some kind of victory, dragging this old Dinosaur into the future.
Personally, texting is such a waist of time. It takes hours to have a conversation. In the good old days, people actually talked to each other in what was known as a conversation.
In work I get people IM'ing or texting me all the time. I respond but if it goes past 2 or 3 texts on my part, I tell them to give me a call. If it is important enough for them to reach out to me, then it should be important enough to pick up the phone and have a five or ten minute conversation as apposed to thirty minutes of me typing. What a waste of time, that I rarely have.
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MikeT49
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My "newer" flip phone sits in my truck's glove box. Only use it on road trips. Don't text. Don't do Facebook or Dweebzone or any of that crap. Don't have time, I have a life. That being said, I did pick up a tablet for checking mountain pass weather radar. Now that damn thing follows me everywhere. I only use my flip phone now when deer hunting because nobody uses radios any more. During last years deer season, a father and son used their smart phones to keep lined up on a deer drive. GPS map chit. Hmmmm, may have to reconsider my phone choice. Still would sit in the glove box most of the time.
I had my vocal cords removed due to cancer last June, I was able to resist the cell phone thing up until then, My son got me one of these new cell phones so I'd have a way to text and keep in touch with people. I discovered that texting and an app called "tell me" became my only ways to communicate other than writing. Then on this past Valentines day the doctors put a voice valve in my throat, I'm getting used to it now, I sound like Garth Brooks..... drowning. But if not for the new fangled cell phones, it would have been a very lonely year. I personally am very impressed and glad that phones can do what they do now a days. I beat cancer's azz and enjoying every minute and I don't mind having a new fangled cell phone one bit.
joshb
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Tell me more about this GPS range finder!?!
So far, I’m ignoring them and their texts. When they finally call, I say “I’m working on it.”
I am going to figure it out so I can communicate with my deaf cousin.
Ouch! That hurt!
scasa
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It's called Spyglass I found it at the app store (apple I phone) but they probably have it for android phones. I down loaded a bunch of apps looking for a gps range finder,and one night I was playing with it and discovered it was exactally what I was looking for. It's a little confusing on how it works, when you start the app the screen comes up and there is a small i at the bottom right of the screen if it's not tap the screen and it pops up, tap the i and select location. that should bring up a map with a crosshair at your location. Now I live in the country and if there is a coyote under the mulberry tree in the pasture, move the crosshair to the mulberry tree and read the yardage (148 yds) adjust and shoot. It shows the topography so a tree, a fence line, a creak are on the map . It's not like a laser rangefinder but it's exactally what I was looking for and is perfect for where i shoot.
Send the question to her as a text and you don’t have to get up to ask her. No yelling from the porch either. LOL. Besides, if she has a shopping list for you to get at the grocery store she can just text it to you and nothing gets forgotten. Brewski’s are on aisle 9.
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