Voice only mobile phone?

[Terryc]

Do they still sell voice only mobile phones?

Hopefully with a rechargeable card (prepaid).

SWMBO was given one recently and we thought it might be useful to keep
it for emergencies, but it has sms and fax msgs. As she is a teacher
this is a definite not on (only takes a kids to nick it and sms a sign
up to blow all the prepaid).

Whilst we don't like them, we recognise that a voice only one would be
useful.

 

[Graham Fountain]

It will be interesting when we get forced to give up our CDMA phones
and migrate to Nex G - what the hell do I need a camera in a phone
for?

Yeah, it gives me the craps with all these new "features" that all
phones have - I just want to be able to make phone calls and the odd
text message, and from my time selling the things, that's all that most
people over 25 want. The 15-25 yo's are pretty much the only ones
driving the market with all the whizzbangery. In 2-1/2 years of owning a
camera phone, i've only found it useful once. She Who Must Be Obeyed was
crook and sent me out to buy a bookcase. I was able to take pictures of
potential candidates and MMS them to her for her verdict. Certainly a
feature I could live without. I used it for novelty use in the first few
months of ownership - I think I've gone 12 months now without using the
camera once.

 

[David L. Jones]

Yeah, it gives me the craps with all these new "features" that all
phones have - I just want to be able to make phone calls and the odd
text message, and from my time selling the things, that's all that most
people over 25 want. The 15-25 yo's are pretty much the only ones
driving the market with all the whizzbangery. In 2-1/2 years of owning a
camera phone, i've only found it useful once. She Who Must Be Obeyed was
crook and sent me out to buy a bookcase. I was able to take pictures of
potential candidates and MMS them to her for her verdict. Certainly a
feature I could live without. I used it for novelty use in the first few
months of ownership - I think I've gone 12 months now without using the
camera once.

What I hate about the modern phones are the colour screens. You can't
see the damn things when the backlight is off, so it's next to
impossible to just glance at the display to see if you had a call or
sms etc.

Dave

 

[swanny]

What I hate about the modern phones are the colour screens. You can't
see the damn things when the backlight is off, so it's next to
impossible to just glance at the display to see if you had a call or
sms etc.

Dave

Bring back rotary-dial I say!

 

[Borat]

Bring back rotary-dial I say!

What a decadic lifestyle that would promote!

 

[atec77]

What a decadic lifestyle that would promote!

I wouldn't mind at all , spent many happy hours looking for faults

 

[Don McKenzie]

http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2006/8/11/4958
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=287

And I heard that they are selling quite a few of them in yanksville too.

Don...


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[Franc Zabkar]

http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2006/8/11/4958
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=287

I'm waiting for someone to design a PC keyboard using only a mobile
phone keypad. It would be just the thing for those pretentious,
one-handed SMS typists who reckon it's unkewl to reach for the Shift
key.

- Franc Zabkar