Pagers on 2017
 

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So, pretty heavy smartphone user.
Broke phone a week ago and, to be honest, not missing it. Thinking of going more offline and getting a pager instead. Do they still exist?

 
Posted : 18/02/2017 4:20 pm
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[url= http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pagers ]http://lmgtfy.com/?q=pagers[/url]

 
Posted : 18/02/2017 4:23 pm
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Why?
Why not get a crappy old mobile to fill the void.

 
Posted : 18/02/2017 4:41 pm
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You'll piss off anyone who needs to contact you as it's usually a premium rate number.

 
Posted : 18/02/2017 4:47 pm
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A pager? 😆

Did anyone use them even in the 90's? Not including the village drug dealer.

 
Posted : 18/02/2017 10:00 pm
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Still used in some hospitals. They look really clunky and are a bit annoying because a lot of the time it would be so much easier to send a text! 🙂

 
Posted : 18/02/2017 11:18 pm
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Did anyone use them even in the 90's? Not including the village drug dealer.
had one 03 to 06 I think, great bit of kit for work where camera phones were banned.

 
Posted : 18/02/2017 11:36 pm
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had one 03 to 06 I think, great bit of kit for work where camera phones were banned.

I take it you had one of them camera pagers then 😉

 
Posted : 18/02/2017 11:46 pm
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Compromise would be to wait for the relaunched 3310?

 
Posted : 19/02/2017 12:02 am
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^ that's what I'm thinking too.
Pager would be being stubborn/pigheaded and a weird enjoyment in retraining my friends in learning to deal with a new communications paradigm

 
Posted : 19/02/2017 12:05 am
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Perhaps you need a [url= https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp01-mobile-phone/ ]'dumb phone'[/url]?

 
Posted : 19/02/2017 9:41 am
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[url= http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/nokia-3310-mwc-2017-re-launch-buy-amazon-price-leaks-details-revealed-a7578941.html ]Nokia 3310[/url]

EDIT (beaten to it by a mere 9 hours 😳 )

I have an old iPhone 4S as a backup, still allows me to iMesagage, WhatsApp, email etc

 
Posted : 19/02/2017 9:56 am
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I've only just bought my first smart phone, after using a dumb phone (Nokia) since '99, supplemented with an iPod Touch (which does pretty much all of the smart stuff that a smart phone does) since about '08. Dumb phones are nice and small, crazy cheap (mine was about £10) and the battery lasts about two weeks. I found not having Whatsapp was about the most annoying thing.

 
Posted : 19/02/2017 10:18 am
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Did anyone use them even in the 90's? Not including the village drug dealer.

90s and 00s I occasionally used one.

Less than £13 for a none smartphone

https://www.7dayshop.com/products/alcatel-one-touch-10-16g-sim-free-basic-mobile-phone-volcano-black-WH2-1016G-3AALGB1?utm_source=maillist&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2201702122

 
Posted : 19/02/2017 10:20 am
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Well you learn something new everyday. Forgot about the doctors on call thing.

Bodgy: Love that Punkt phone.

 
Posted : 19/02/2017 11:38 am
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The Punkt. MP 01 is a stylish, well-crafted mobile phone which focuses on modern simplicity, inside and out. It makes phone calls and sends texts. That’s all.
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229,00 £

I think they've got the decimal point in the wrong place there. What's it run on, mermaid's tears and unicorn semen?

 
Posted : 19/02/2017 11:51 am
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Yeah, that's why I don't have one. My old Nokia does the same thing and costs nothing because it was rediscovered in the bottom of a draw. And it also doesn't look like something you'd try and force your nan to use, as in Drac's example.

 
Posted : 19/02/2017 11:54 am

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