[Electronics-talk] Long post but phone info please requested,

[Carol J. Feazell]

I will be sending this to several lists (not cross posting) so some may get it more than once but I am really trying to get as much information as quickly as possible.  

 

I have been a Verizon customer for years and for the most part have been happy with them.  My phone needs are simple.  That's why I am still using The Haven because it is the only phone I know of that will read the menues in which I am interested those being:  speaking incoming calls/texts, reading sent and received texts, the call log, the contact list, and the phone status menu. I think that's all I use.  I absolutely unequivocally do not want an iPhone.  Please do not take offense to this.  We all have our personal preferences and this is mine.  I would prefer pushing buttons to get to the things I want but if I have no other way, I would concede to voice, though I don't think this is always practical and have some other personal feelings about this which I am trying to overcome but it is a very difficult personal thing for me also.  I like the phone to talk to me.  I don't care if I never say a word to it.  

 

Back to the Verizon thing, our family is currently on my son's plan as his portion is discounted for his work with the city.  The rest of them currently have unlimited data which is going to be a thing of the past whenever anyone upgrades, and so my son is preparing to make a move to T mobile, hence my reason for asking these questions.  Do any of you know anything about T mobile's service?  Is there any program/application I can get to cause those menues to speak?  I don't even mind going with a screen overlay.  I know many of you are not in favor of those but feel that I would definitely need one if I were going to use the screen, because I often dial phone numbers rather than going to a list to have them called for me.  Call it an exercise in memory or whatever but then sometimes we have to dial a number that isn't on our contact list and I would really prefer not to speak the number.  As I said, I would if I had to.  

 

So taking all of these things into considerations and without hearing how great your iPhones are, could anyone please give me some suggestions or direct me to a list that may deal effectively with such matters?  I know I had asked Verizon if they could just eliminate the data from one of their more upgraded phones and they say they can't.  I find it difficult to believe this but would, even though reluctantly, accept such a plan if that was what I had to do.  I'm not opposed to such, just don't feel the personal need for such.  I don't want my phone to do everything but wipe my backside.  I just want a phone.  The reading and the music, I'll leave to my Victor Stream or to my desktop computer.  If everything is all-in-one, if anything goes out, you lose everything and I find that the simpler I can keep something, the less likely it is to break.  That's not necessarily true but in observing the problems my family has had with avarious phones against my simple ones, I can tell you hands down I have had little to no trouble for years, but I do suffer the sometimes lack of service and the slow service (the latter not really being much of a problem for me), but for the most part my few needs are served.  My favorite is the good old flip phone, not nearly so apt to accidentally dial something/someone I don't currently want to, pocket dial, I believe they call it.  I could tell you some funny stories about doctors and such with their cell phones but that is probably best left unsaid in this post.  Give me a good old flip phone any time but likely those will be hard to come by and particularly to do all the particulars I request, though few.

 

Sorry for the rather long post but I'm really hoping that I can find a satisfactory answer.

 

Respectfully of each opinion I am,

 

Carol Jean