[NTLK] OT: Cell phones

[Don Zahniser]

I got my first cell phone as a gift from my wife in about 1990 - It was a car installation with a floor-mount box with a regular phone-sized handset, and a separate, almost shoebox sized, trunk mount box. I continued to use it until 2008 after switching it to another vehicle in 2000. Using iStuff now...

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Don

On Dec 30, 2017, 3:40 PM -0500, Dennis Swaney <romad at mac.com>, wrote:
> I got my first cell right after I saw an accident and had no way to report
> it. We would move it from car to car. Then we got a second one for the
> other car. I then got a Motorola flip phone, then an iPhone when they came
> out. When the analog cell networks were shut off in 2008, we got the
> Jitterbug Dial to replace the analog phone in my wife's car.
>
> Sincerely,
> Dennis B. Swaney
>
> "I think, therefore I Mac"
>
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Forrest <newton_phoenix at mindspring.com
> wrote:
>
> > “So if you just want a basic phone for emergencies, get the Jitterbug Flip.
> > However they do make a Jitterbug slab smartphone also, if you prefer that.”
> >
> > The other day when recalling an event from the past I paused to stop and
> > think: what was it like before cellphones?
> >
> > Of course as someone born in the late 1950s it’s not hard to remember
> > those times. But it gets much more difficult to recall the time when they
> > first started showing up everywhere.
> >
> > I recall getting my first cellphone in 1995 as part of a promotion from
> > the local phone company. It was offered for free, did not offer free long
> > distance (unlike today) and featured only a (relatively) small amount of
> > minutes per month. As both Dennis and BCD have pointed out, it was meant
> > for emergencies only, dammit, no long chats. Do that when you get home on
> > your landline phone, or back at the office. They were obviously testing the
> > waters of this whole new cellphone thing.
> >
> > I can recall when I first started seeing web addresses (URLs) being
> > featured in TV advertising: 1998. Much harder to recall exactly when, for
> > many people, it was becoming clear that you HAD to have a cellphone
> > (family, friends wanted to stay in better touch), and not just for your job.
> >
> > It’s becoming easier to imagine a home without a television than one
> > without at least one cellphone in it.
> >
> > Mahalo,
> > Forrest
> >
> > Sent from my T-Mobile iPhone 6S Plus
> >
> > > On Dec 30, 2017, at 10:18 AM, Dennis Swaney <romad at mac.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > So if you just want a basic phone for emergencies, get the Jitterbug
> > Flip.
> > > However they do make a Jitterbug slab smartphone also, if you prefer
> > that.
> >
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