On Mon, 08 Dec 2014 09:59:38 -0500, Wolf K
wrote:

On 2014-12-08 9:43 AM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Sun, 07 Dec 2014 23:48:37 +0000, Andy Burns
wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:

Since I use a flip phone, I guess I'm a big dumb dinosaur too.

No, you're running with the celebs

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/05/iphone-samsung-galaxy-flip-phone-is-back


If I were a celebrity (or at least if I had the money most celebrities
do) I would have a smart phone. The main reason I don't is the monthly
cost of having one.

The basic plans are cheaper than a land line, apart from the surcharge
for buying the thing. I bought mine outright, since that surcharge pays
for the phone in the first 12 months or so, huge interest rate IOW. I
pay $30/month for the usual 200 anytime minutes, unlimited evenings and
weekends, unlimited texting (which I hardly ever do). No data plan, as I
access data via wi-fi, not via mobile network. Our land line is almost
double that, but has a terrific bundled long-distance plan, saves us
roughly $200/month ate "regular rates", so we're keeping it.



My "land line" (if you want to call it that) is VoIP, from Phone
Power. It costs me $5 a month for usage all over the US and most of
Europe.

I also have two flip phones (one for me and one for my wife) They have
T-Mobile's prepaid service, and they each cost me $10 a year to add
minutes to it, so the unused ones don't expire.

That combination meets my needs and my wife's, and costs the grand
total of $80 a year, or $6.67 a month--much less than your $60 for the
land line + $30 for the cell phone.