Del is experimentally "throwing in the towel" re: NO smart phone EVER
I really don't think I want a smart phone for "every day." I have a huge giant not no mention big flip with HUGE speakers, and although the software sucks, at least I can hear it and hang onto it Kyocera E4810, Dura XV Extreme. It's even supposed to be somewhat rugged and waterproof, and it is BIG (Unfortunately the battery should be larger)
https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/kyocera-duraxv-extreme
ANYhow, I've been toying with the idea of toying with a smart phone, and the other day at one of the Thrift stores, I found FOUR Motorola Droid Turbo 2 phones, for 4 bucks each less military discount of 10%. I bought one, drug it home and ended up getting all 4
1....has a dead/ bad battery and won't come up, and the batteries are NOT easily replaceable. They are somewhat available, and the procedure, involving peeling off the GLUED on back, and tearing part of the phone apart, is online. This one has a Verizon sim, unknown if it's useable
2 & 3 & 4 charged up and powered up OK, but 2 had no sims, and the last turned out to have an uncompatible sim AKA someone swapped it?
My phone service from Verizon is prepaid at about 30 a month. So I thought WTF, and spent nearly an hour on the phone the other day with two people, trying to get one of the phones programmed on a new number on a cheap prepaid deal "just to try." They could not get the sim to take the load, so, Verizon is sending me a new sim, and I'll start over on the phone a few days from now.
The bad: These phones are a little bit old, introduced in 2015, these 3 are dated 2017. Can't get the other to fire up.
The good. These are HUGE which is why I bought them, and at the same store were 4x brand new hardshell belt holsters, so I bought all 4 of them, too. So I've got less than 25 bucks in the whole dang mess.
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/motorola-droid-turbo-2-review/
I really don't think I want a smart phone for "every day." I have a huge giant not no mention big flip with HUGE speakers, and although the software sucks, at least I can hear it and hang onto it Kyocera E4810, Dura XV Extreme. It's even supposed to be somewhat rugged and waterproof, and it is BIG (Unfortunately the battery should be larger)
https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/kyocera-duraxv-extreme
ANYhow, I've been toying with the idea of toying with a smart phone, and the other day at one of the Thrift stores, I found FOUR Motorola Droid Turbo 2 phones, for 4 bucks each less military discount of 10%. I bought one, drug it home and ended up getting all 4
1....has a dead/ bad battery and won't come up, and the batteries are NOT easily replaceable. They are somewhat available, and the procedure, involving peeling off the GLUED on back, and tearing part of the phone apart, is online. This one has a Verizon sim, unknown if it's useable
2 & 3 & 4 charged up and powered up OK, but 2 had no sims, and the last turned out to have an uncompatible sim AKA someone swapped it?
My phone service from Verizon is prepaid at about 30 a month. So I thought WTF, and spent nearly an hour on the phone the other day with two people, trying to get one of the phones programmed on a new number on a cheap prepaid deal "just to try." They could not get the sim to take the load, so, Verizon is sending me a new sim, and I'll start over on the phone a few days from now.
The bad: These phones are a little bit old, introduced in 2015, these 3 are dated 2017. Can't get the other to fire up.
The good. These are HUGE which is why I bought them, and at the same store were 4x brand new hardshell belt holsters, so I bought all 4 of them, too. So I've got less than 25 bucks in the whole dang mess.
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/motorola-droid-turbo-2-review/