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Re:John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone by jacquesm on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @08:07AM (#2143133)
> Once your friends know you don't text, they stop texting you.

I really really tried, but apparently your friends respect you better than mine do me :)

I don't mind being known as a Luddite ;)

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Re:John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @08:39AM (#2143212)
On UK landlines now you can receive texts, they have a service that does text-to-speech and reads the text to you. With this then you would only lack a way to send texts, people wanting a simple phone probably don't want that.
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Re:John's Phone: a minimalist cell phone by sbarre on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @09:32AM (#2143359)
In Canada it's the same thing. Text a landline and they get a call with a TTS of the text and a message indicating what phone number it came from.
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