YOU feel like a dinosaur? i wish i could be. if it weren't for the AMPS-shutdown in 2008, i'd still have an ancient analog car phone for a cellular phone. those things lived forever, were built more rugged than the weatherproof Nextel, and got signal just about anywhere. and none of those features i can't get to work right.
The oldest i could go back to (without going to CDMA like Verizon and lord knows i've been through number porting hell once and i'm not going back!) was a Nokia 3595 GSM 1st gen phone. it's so old that AT&T wouldn't activate it with the new SIM cards they issue without jumping through hoops (and giving them my IT credentials so i'm not treated as a hacker or average user) but it works and has the same basic functions as a later model 5100-series so it works. and it gets better signal than others today.
It can still download JAVA apps and use the web browser which saves me a 2-mile trip to a hotspot to do the same so for a model over 10-years old it was far ahead of its time and still acts like a 5100-series with some extra menus. the newer phones require Edge to go online and we don't have Edge yet. just GPRS. and that wreaks havoc with new phones.
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Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard disk?!
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