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There are low end phone plans in the range of $10-15/mo. You can get a prepaid smartphone for like $40, and if you aren't using cellular data, you can get the s
by jjk166 4y ago
There are low end phone plans in the range of $10-15/mo. You can get a prepaid smartphone for like $40, and if you aren't using cellular data, you can get the smartphone itself for around $20.
- sockaddr 4y agoYeah, so I can wait in the lobby for 17 minutes while some 1.8 star museum app downloads to my phone over a crappy network that my provider lied about the performance of instead of someone just handing me a paper map.
- jjk166 4y agoOr you use wifi like a normal person. We call them phones because that's what they evolved from but smartphones are fully functional computers that we can use anywhere with ease, and using cellular data to make phone calls is only one small facet of their usage. For the overwhelming majority of people, being able to just pull up a map on their phone is the more convenient and preferred option. "Just handing you a paper map" is not so simple when you don't have paper maps because getting custom paper maps printed is expensive.