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Originally Posted by lizardlady
For years my friends laughed at me because I had a "dumb" phone. It was a basic flip phone that made and received phone calls - period. A few weeks ago I started getting really crappy reception and dropping calls.
Went to the Verizon store (Verizon is the only carrier with towers in my area) yesterday. Turns out the cell companies are upgrading their towers. As of December 31 of this year phones without a SIM card will no longer work. My poor old dumb phone was about a zillion years old and did not have a SIM card. That's why I was having trouble. Was just going to get a basic flip phone again until I compared prices. A smart phone was only a little more money than the flip phone and comes with all the bells and whistles. I are now the owner of a smart phone. Good thing this is going to be a long weekend so I can start learning how to use it. At least I have some experience with smartphones, since I use an I phone for work.
Then I asked them about the USB modem I have for my desktop. My laptop refuses to recognize the modem when it's inserted in the port. Salesguy suggested I just get a WiFi router that will work with both. Well, I did have to pick up an adapter for the desktop to receive the WiFi signal, but I also now have WiFi.
Lizardlady finally moved into the 21st Century! 
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that's very cool.
my phone is still a basic one that can make calls.
and probably always will be- that's all I need it for (and even then I don't use it)