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

Wed May 15 13:04:45 UTC 2013

Might be a thought.
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> Hi,
>
> My husband and I were Verizon customers, and in an effort to reduce our 
> monthly expenses, we switched to Page Plus.  This company is owned by 
> Verizon, so he was able to use his Haven with this service.  They have 
> several plans.  The one we have is per phone, but it is $80 for 2000 
> minutes, and you have up to a year to use the minutes.  Of course, if you 
> run out, you buy more and reset your yearly clock countdown.  They have 
> other pay as you go monthly plans, but we have been very happy with ours. 
> Just an idea to keep you with the Haven.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Electronics-talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Carol J. Feazell
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 7:56 PM
> To: Electronics NFB
> Subject: [Electronics-talk] Long post but phone info please requested,
>
> 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
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