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10-16-2012, 11:03 AM | #2 |
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Oh yeah, my grandparents live in Bum **** Nowhere, so coverage has to be good.
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10-16-2012, 11:04 AM | #3 |
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Buy a new battery off of Amazon.
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10-16-2012, 11:07 AM | #4 |
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10-16-2012, 11:45 AM | #5 | |
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Try amazon or maybe even interstate battery. I have a shit ton of old phones in my office. I'll check and see I I have an old LG in there, maybe able to hook you up if you want. |
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10-16-2012, 11:57 AM | #6 |
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FTR, Jitterbug operates on the Verizon network. That's probably not a bad way to go. The network is good, and I think you can do prepaid.
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10-16-2012, 11:58 AM | #7 |
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I've had good luck with tracfone. You buy samsung tracfone at walmart, put some minutes on it, done.
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10-16-2012, 01:29 PM | #8 |
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WTF does that even mean?
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10-16-2012, 03:11 PM | #9 |
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10-16-2012, 03:21 PM | #10 |
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Yeah - this. You can get pretty basic phones, too. The nice thing about Tracfone is you can buy just time without having to by a ton of minutes with them. 1 year and 800 minutes is around $100, so it's cheap if you don't talk much. Texts (sending and receiving) are 1/3 minute, iirc.
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10-16-2012, 03:29 PM | #11 | |
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10-16-2012, 04:10 PM | #12 | |
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Actually getting them to understand how to use the cellphone has been a lot harder than the minutes aspect of it. "how do I hang this thing up again?" |
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10-16-2012, 04:56 PM | #13 |
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Also, phones have to allow you to call 911, even within minutes. So in pure emergency scenarios, it's still nice to have.
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10-16-2012, 06:47 PM | #14 |
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Well, I looked at the phones I had in storage and you're ****ed, buddy. The only LG I had has a bad battery.
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10-16-2012, 06:57 PM | #15 |
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These are a touch on the spendy side at about $40 a pop, but they might help you:
http://www.yubztalkusa.com/ |
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