Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 13, 2013

One of the reasons why I don’t carry a “smart” phone …

Yup, I’ve had that before – if the phone doesn’t detect you’ve held it to your ear quick enough, you’ll be hanging up quicker than you can say “hello”.And therein lies the irony which Jimmy captures so beautifully – “Don’t touch the touchscreen”

That’s why I still have a flip phone.

Naw, the phone is just ticklish

Smoke signals never hang up.

Another (satisfied) Razr owner?

He must have been holding it wrong.

And I’m waiting for my flip phone to die so I can go back to my old phone. But I once asked my mother to hold my phone so I could do something, and I later discovered she managed to put it on “mute”.

…I love my flip phone – my sister is pushing hard for me to get a smart phone – why would I want to pay that much, and then pay so much more a month, for something that I’ve gotten along without so nicely?

We have a mixed marriage – he has an Android, I have an iPhone. I HATE his phone. Every time I touch it, something gets hosed up.

I finally learned not to punch “Talk” when my daughter hands me her phone with someone on the line, because that turns in off. My phone comes up with the picture mode a lot, and I just fiddle around with it till it goes away. Don’t know how to take pictures yet – only had it two or three years.

@bawana said;

“I’m going back to a flip phone as soon this POS I have now dies” %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Amen, Brother..A-y-y-MEN! My TracFone’s SmartPhone is more like ‘Mildly-RetardedPhone’. I’d forgotten I used to cuss like this. .

Evidently he’s Dr. Alan Grant.

My flip phone does what I need. I can talk to people, and get messages…..That’s all I need……..

What Katzenbooks said exactly. You can hold my beautiful, makes-intuitive-sense-every-time Iphone any way you like, no problem, but if I pick up my husband’s Android, if I so much as touch it, something goes weird and his instructions to our destination or whatever was on the screen, poof, it’s gone, never to be retrieved again—by me, anyway.

Here’s my million dollar for the taking: Market a cell phone with a rotary dial…Man, I’m a genius….

I will stick with my Net10 flip phone (camera phone). All I really what a phone for is making phone calls. If I want to surf the net that is what I have a desktop computer for. A lot of phones now days have hundreds if not thousands of app’s you will never use.

So when are we getting back to the Gene story line!Their child gets married and we never here from them again?

I love my nokia brick, it’s about 6 years old but I about fell over laughing when a realtor showing an open house a few weeks ago exclaimed “That has to be the smallest phone I’ve ever seen!”

Loved my flip phone, but that cell co, about 6 years ago, made me switch to a new phone (change in “g’s”). Husband got me a razr (old one) also a flip phone at new co. Then he got me my dream phone, a Palm Centro. I substituted for my Palm Pilot and my whole life was organized. Unfortunately the cell phone co would not let one of us change phones without a change in plan that would double our monthly payment. Husband wanted an android as he needs to check email no matter where he is for his 2 businesses (one of them is a through a 3rd party service and if he does not return emails within a certain period they shut off his access to clients for a period, so he really needs to be able to check email easily on his phone.) He put up with not changing phones for over a year and then found a solution.

We split our phone service and he went to one major co, prepaid and got his android. I went to a phone service, also prepaid offered by Walmart and he purchased a brand new, years old Centro for me that would work with a SIM card (old one was on a carrier that did not use same) and bought a SIM card from new co to put in new Centro. Total bill for the 2 of us actually went down and we both have unlimited text and data. I have unlimited minutes, he has 100 (way more than either of us needs). Worked great for 9 months, then the Centro died. Why? Because husband tried to put an earphone set into the earphone jack. Don’t know why, I can’t use an earphone.

Now he found me a Blackberry Curve, almost as good for what I need, except to dos will not sync with my computer software, so I use the Curve for calls, etc. and everything outside the house. In the house I carry the original Centro also to keep track of to dos and play the games on it.

So, Arlo touching her phone could lose the call. Hey, if it drove my car it stopped working right too.