Now that some people have at least occasionally had luck phoning or sending text messages on/around our land, I ordered a new cell phone. It came yesterday and I spent some time charging the battery and learning to phone our landline and sending text messages to Kaitlin. This is my first cell phone, so it’s exciting. 🙂
We’ll go up to the land tomorrow evening to see if it works up there. If it does work I will take time to learn its features — it has quite a few even though I ordered the most basic model — then show Andy how to use it and let him start taking it up to there every day. I will let you know!
August 7, 2015
I hope it works. There are a lot of places we go that that now have cell service that didn’t for a long period. Still, there’s a “dead zone” that starts just a couple of miles east of us that lasts for about 8 miles or so on our normal route that we take on our trips to Little Rock, which are getting less and less frequent.
We had fair luck last night, so we’re happy and I ordered a second one.
Congratulations. You are now among the cellphone addicts international.
Hardly. 🙂
oh i’m so glad!
so important he has a way to contact you if he needs help!
let’s hope for no dead zones!
It looks hopeful. The reception on our clearing is fairly good.
Tom has a cell phone but I don’t. I didn’t think I’d use it enough to warrant getting one.
We just upgraded our internet speed & bundled our payments for TV, internet & phone. AND we’re blocking the nuisance calls.
Some one of these days we’ll probably upgrade our internet speed too.
i have a basic flip-top phone, apparently you can’t get them anymore in NZ so that means that when it dies I’ll be shot into the contemporary gadget…
but congratulations on the new phone – in NZ there are dead zones or similar like drops-out, even for landlines. although I only just found that out! Not mine but another organisation having problems with building alarms and finally some bright spark/technician worked it out… and I’m not even talking rural sectors, but big modern urban city!
I’m surprised you would have trouble with landline phones. Our new phones (I ordered the second one today) are flip-top ones. Nice and simple, even though we could get on the internet if we wanted. Which we don’t unless we get a data plan.
I got a pay-as-you-go phone 6 years ago when my cat Ghost became lost.
I had ads in the newspapers and on posters and flyers so I wanted whoever to be able to reach me and anytime.
I had that for a while and then I got onto my sister’s plan and just paid a minimal monthly fee with a much better phone.
When she decided to drop the plan, I had to get a new phone so I went with an iPhone. I don’t have cable and I dropped my landline so the cost wasn’t that extreme but to be honest, I love it. Seriously. I do. I mean as far as an inanimate object can be loved! LOL!
Good luck with your new phone!
I can understand why you would love it! I feel the same way about my Wi-Fi iPads. I check my email before I get out of bed in the morning.
I still have an absolutely basic mobile phone. Make and receive calls, ditto texts, that’s about it. But it’s all I need. I take it when I’m out walking in case I have an accident. And I take it in the car in case it breaks down. Otherwise I virtually never use it.
I wish mine didn’t let me have access to the internet. We plan to use ours the way you do, mostly for emergencies.