I do not know how the internet works, but this morning Snapfone placed an ad here. Just yesterday, after a long search, I ordered a replacement phone for Sue. Her old cell phone was lost several weeks ago, and she hasn't been up to using one since. Until now.
Shirley and I found this Snapfone online with big buttons, an emergency call feature, and none of the fancy stuff (camera, internet) that most phones come with. No one at ATT, Best Buy, and two Cell Phone Repair stores had ever heard of a big button cell phone.
It is a good sign that Sue is clamoring for her cell phone and now even wants her computer back.
On another note, we replaced our ATT U-Verse recently with cable and TIVO. Over the two-plus years we had U-Verse, we had frequent outages, probably two-dozen technician calls, with--the final straw--a demand for $250 to rewire the entire house.
Hooking up cable and then TIVO took hours, many calls to the TIVO help line, and working through a whole lot of misinformation. Now, we have a system that works reliably and costs considerably less. The day I took the ugly cable boxes to UPS for shipping back to ATT was one happy day. Not only were they ugly and bulky, they didn't work well at all. TIVO works, the boxes are about a third the size of the U-Verse boxes, most wiring hidden in the living room cabinet, but TIVO has some ways to go to achieve anywhere near the excellence of Apple's designs.
I predict TIVO will advertise on this blog shortly.
Shirley and I found this Snapfone online with big buttons, an emergency call feature, and none of the fancy stuff (camera, internet) that most phones come with. No one at ATT, Best Buy, and two Cell Phone Repair stores had ever heard of a big button cell phone.
It is a good sign that Sue is clamoring for her cell phone and now even wants her computer back.
On another note, we replaced our ATT U-Verse recently with cable and TIVO. Over the two-plus years we had U-Verse, we had frequent outages, probably two-dozen technician calls, with--the final straw--a demand for $250 to rewire the entire house.
Hooking up cable and then TIVO took hours, many calls to the TIVO help line, and working through a whole lot of misinformation. Now, we have a system that works reliably and costs considerably less. The day I took the ugly cable boxes to UPS for shipping back to ATT was one happy day. Not only were they ugly and bulky, they didn't work well at all. TIVO works, the boxes are about a third the size of the U-Verse boxes, most wiring hidden in the living room cabinet, but TIVO has some ways to go to achieve anywhere near the excellence of Apple's designs.
I predict TIVO will advertise on this blog shortly.
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