The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007

Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by microcolonel on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:04PM (#12572096)

I have my Nokia still going strong; but sadly they're killing the last GSM network in Canada next year and I won't have anything to connect it to. I like telephone calls a lot of the time, I use them about as often as text messages.

Next year I might need to buy a phone which is about 12 times as expensive, has worse signal reliability, and which has a battery which will last me literally one 14th the time my current one does, and which will take up about twice the space in my pocket, and it will be a shattering liability every time I take it with me. All the while, it will have so much software on it and so much attack surface that I will need to stay abreast of hundreds upon hundreds of megabytes of updates twice a month (at least) just so that people don't commit fraud with my identity.

Seriously, screw this noise, get me out of here.

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Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by chrisbolt on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:20PM (#12572174)

Or you could just get another dumbphone: http://www.rogers.com/web/link/wirelessBuyFlow?forwardTo=Pho...

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Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by microcolonel on Saturday September 24, 2016 @04:05PM (#12572397)

People report a lot of battery issues for those. I'd probably want a Nokia.

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Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by pilsetnieks on Saturday September 24, 2016 @05:30PM (#12572741)

Well then get a new Nokia dumbphone: https://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/phones/all#order_by=late....

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Re:The Death of the Telephone Call: 1876–2007 by biot on Saturday September 24, 2016 @05:36PM (#12572758)

"sadly they're killing the last GSM network in Canada next year"

Source?

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