<html><head></head><body><div>Real writers use manual typewriters with carbon paper. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Look for what Verizon sells and find a working used one on swappa.com</div><div><br></div><div>That said, I dumped Verizon, moved to T-Mobile when I got the family One+ 1 phones 2+ years ago. Went to Ireland with them and they worked just fine. Had T-Mobile activate the $15/month overseas usage 3 days before I left and turned it off when we got back. Wound up cabling my laptop to my phone at one point for some emergency admin work back home. No problems.</div><div><br></div><div>Our phones are now over two years old and get updated regularly (stock cyanogen from One+). None of us have any reason or desire to upgrade as they do everything we want and more than we use.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 10:17 -0400, Leam Hall wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>My current Galaxy S3 from Verizon hasn't been OS patched in a while and
has been dropped more than once. A replacement might be good. Looking at
the Verizon pages and doing the math, an unlocked S4 or S5 might be a
good deal. I try to keep stuff until it dies and may do some overseas
travel.
Is the plan to buy my own and use it with Verizon feasible? What other
things should I look at? The goal is an Android based phone with a
pretty simple usage pattern; text, calls, web, and one 3rd party app.
On a different note, my wife wants me to move to Mac and iPhone. I'm a
fledgling writer and most of the tools real writers use don't work on
CentOS. :( So, is there a reason for Android, in that I'm not at the
level of writing my own apps for it?
Thanks!
Leam
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</pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
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