Will you buy one?
I'm getting one.
I'm not getting one.
iPhone?
Who are Nuts and Abbadon?
Will you buy one?
The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles.
I can't... I need a network that actually works for phone calls, not AT&T.
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I still have no cell phone of any kind, and no plans to get one, either. Without a cell phone, when I'm away from work, I'm completely unreachable unless I decide to check my e-mail (I screen all calls on my land line via my answering machine).
Cell phones have saved my butt on a number of occasions (cars breaking down.)
In the case of family emergency, I need to be accessible as well.
So a cell phone is pretty much a must have at this point (1 each for my wife and I.)
The built in camera, web browsing, and push email are compelling as well.
I've had other phones with other companies. They're all pretty much the same. Some things better, some things worse. Nothing ever perfect. It's the coverage bubble that's the deciding factor.
The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles.
The inevitable question becomes - what do you do about 911?
Rely on the Cell Phone version?
The sun has fallen down
And the billboards are all leering
And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles.
I was a big fan of just having a cell phone until Katrina hit and there wasn't a cell phone in the region that could make a call out. I'm always going to have a land line for 911 if nothing else.
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Kind of funny, I don't know a single person that has a landline other than my Mom.
Hasta,
Boom
Its funny this topic came up. My wife and son (8 months old) were at the car dealership last week waiting for her truck to finish with an oil change. She gave my son the cell to play with because he was being fussy. Well it rings and she takes it from him and answer it. It was a 911 operator. She had to totally convince the operator that our son dialed it on accident. They wanted to send a car out to check and they did know her location. I was tripping on that because I thought they couldn’t tell. But most cells have a location option turned on by default. Good to know...
Around our parts at least, most cells have their e-911 GPS locator disabled by default, but it's automatically enabled and remains in effect upon a call to 911 until you manually switch it back off. A 911 call also puts that cell onto a higher priority connection to the cell tower(s).
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Hmm...
I'm not so sure that the 911 triangulator can be disabled on cellphones in the U.S. I know that you can disable it manually for other services, but I've never seen one that actually allows you to disable it on a 911 call.
Hasta,
Boom