Del is experimentally "throwing in the towel" re: NO smart phone EVER

Well, I am finally "on the air." This was NOT a smooth road. I started to "fire it up" but Verizon said I needed a new SIM. So I just got the new sim Wed, but late Thurs, I discovered that evidently because Verizon could not set up the new phone, I thought it was in limbo, BUT THE PUT IT ON MY ACCOUNT as "live" and decided IT WAS BEHIND ON FEES so they DEACTIVATED MY ORIGINAL PHONE!!!

So Fri. morning I got up and raised hell, finally got through to a human on "chat" and finally got my original phone back on the air

Then early eve. Fri, I got some time, FINALLY got a human on the tech line on my original phone, and finally got the new "smart" phone programmed and ON THE AIR

Now a little at a time, I'm wading through the bloatware that Verizon incorporated on these to remove or at least disable it.