New phone to come
Jan. 19th, 2020 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonfareA little background: I have only had a smart phone for a short time. I resisted it, but I need one so we can get a safe-driver discount on our car insurance. I've been with Virgin Mobile since I got my first cell phone. (I resisted that, too, but I was doing a lot of driving alone at night.) Then, a week or so ago, with absolutely no warning, Virgin informed me they weren't doing phones any more and that my account had been sent to Boost.
I'm still angry about the lack of warning.
Randi spent 8 years working with cell phones, sales and activations, at Walmart. She knows a lot more than I do, partly because of her experience, and partly because I just hate phones in general - I always have, even as a young girl - so I never worked with them. Right off, she said Boost had a bad reputation. I had already noticed that my two friends here in town could get reception where I couldn't, and that didn't change. Virgin used Sprint towers, apparently Boost does as well, and of course Sprint is having problems.
For once I did the smart thing. Randi and I loathe Verizon, so our options were limited. I decided to ask my two friends who get that good reception here. Both of them have AT&T.
So pretty soon, within the next few days, I'll probably be on AT&T. I'm going to replace my aged LG phone for a new one, probably a Nokia. No doubt you will hear lots of bitching from me as I try to wrestle it into submission, i.e., get it to work like I want it to. It's going to take some adjustments, as it'll be bigger than my LG and it'll do a lot more. And it'll have a SIM card. Scary.
It is one of the odd and funny facts about me that I was always able to program a VCR, and that I was something of a computer guru in the offices I worked in, yet I struggle to do anything on a phone, even something simple like create a contact list. Randi does it all for me. But then I load all her software and update her virus protection. :)
I'm still angry about the lack of warning.
Randi spent 8 years working with cell phones, sales and activations, at Walmart. She knows a lot more than I do, partly because of her experience, and partly because I just hate phones in general - I always have, even as a young girl - so I never worked with them. Right off, she said Boost had a bad reputation. I had already noticed that my two friends here in town could get reception where I couldn't, and that didn't change. Virgin used Sprint towers, apparently Boost does as well, and of course Sprint is having problems.
For once I did the smart thing. Randi and I loathe Verizon, so our options were limited. I decided to ask my two friends who get that good reception here. Both of them have AT&T.
So pretty soon, within the next few days, I'll probably be on AT&T. I'm going to replace my aged LG phone for a new one, probably a Nokia. No doubt you will hear lots of bitching from me as I try to wrestle it into submission, i.e., get it to work like I want it to. It's going to take some adjustments, as it'll be bigger than my LG and it'll do a lot more. And it'll have a SIM card. Scary.
It is one of the odd and funny facts about me that I was always able to program a VCR, and that I was something of a computer guru in the offices I worked in, yet I struggle to do anything on a phone, even something simple like create a contact list. Randi does it all for me. But then I load all her software and update her virus protection. :)