They have lots of new phones and apps now and you need to change, the woman told me. My answer was that I did not think so. Since the pandemic began we have been bombarded with anything that "they, " as this woman told me, want to sell us to make money. One of the biggest sellers are all kinds of phones that you can use to do everything with. Not me. I have a simple cell phone and throw a $20 card at it every 90 days.
People pretend that they can watch the big game on a device the size of my hand. They are lying. I do not have prescription eye glasses but it takes a bigger screen for me. That's why I have 3 desktop computers to really watch something on. Many have been convinced to trade these things in and go for that super phone that also might be able to wipe your butt for you. I don't care what others are doing but I watch for bargains.
Yesterday at the local resale shop I found a 2018 Dell computer monitor for $5. I'm still happy about this thing. It's a 23 inch wide screen and works perfectly. I'm not likely to change my mind and pay "them" a lot of money to have a cell the size of an envelope. Others may do that but not me. When the things I use get scarce I will go online and find them. They will be around a while and all my computers are refurbs. Computer shops did 2 of mine and I did this last one myself.
I now have a total of $8 invested in the system I did, monitor and all. That computer has 8 gigs of ram and a terabyte hard drive. I do what computer nerds do and working just 2 days a week I have lots of time on my hands.
My laptop is second hand 12 year old Samsung which I bought for £40 three years ago. It has a quad core 2.4Ghz CPU and 6GB of DDR3 Ram, I bought a cheap 240GB SSD and installed Windows 10 Professional. I don't need to spend a lot of money on the latest technology to enjoy being online.
My cell phone provider recently sent me a text to let me know that I can have the latest Samsung S23 for £63.00 a month. Since my Samsung Galaxy A13 which I bought 2 years ago does everything that I need to do so there is no reason to upgrade from paying £10.00 a month on my contract to paying £63.00 a month.
I only just gave up on my Blackberry, because the battery was done for. I got a new phone mainly for emergencies, which lives in the glove compartment of my van, and is hardly ever turned on, but I still miss the Blackberry. Like you I use refurbished computers all the time, why can't people understand therefore, that they will get me quicker if they send an email rather than a text to the cell phone ?
Plus Agnostic.com works well on the computers, none of the problems most people seem to keep having.
I hear you loud and clear. My phone with a $20 card every 90 days is a Samsung powered by Trackfone. I use it like you use yours but the weather app stops working on it. You can make it work again by buying another $20 card, but it won't work long. Text and talk are always there. People that know me than me have looked at it and have no idea of the problem. I've figured out that this is a new strategy of Trackfone uses to sell more phone cards.
I only use Agnostic dot com with my computer, never my phone, and I seem to be one of the members affected by the inability to message, but otherwise the site works fine for me.