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Expensive mistakes. My phone, adrift somewhere in Colorado, not answering calls has moved beyond my reach. Of course, Verizon was happy to replace it, demanding only a blood price and a new 2 year contract. This phone contract business is great if you’re the phone company, for everyone else (most of us) not so much.
They did have a four propeller, camera equipped drone though, controllable from the phone. Would be fun. But, I think for me, it would be a like a Christmas present of days gone by. Used a lot for a while, then not at all. Shaun Chenoweth, our Verizon salesperson, said realtors use them to show roofs and farmers use them to manage their land. Both uses make sense to me. Could help us find lost dogs but we have homebound canines at this point. Still.
A smart phone is a great companion, especially once you have some reading material on it. That’s a generational attitude, I know. All others have music. Check e-mail. Send texts. Take photographs. Keep up with my Instapaper reading. Keep notes. Look up saved information in my Evernote account. Even read a book if I want to. Find the weather now and the forecasts. Get warned about heavy weather. A lot of work for one handheld gadget. But wait. There’s more. You know, Internet, voice activated search, the flashlight, that chess platform, the calendar. And on and on.
So, the phone is dead; long live the new phone.
