on 2012-04-18 13:45 John Celio wrote
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:35 PM,<[email protected]> wrote:
but the second sentence above does not compute unless you were to buy a phone
only to use its GPS to tag photos taken with a Pentax camera; while i've never
paid an overage fee in three years using an iPhone (and i'm on a reduced data
plan), it's worth noting that the location services that tag a photo do not use
cellular data at all
It was a joke. Didn't the winky emoticon make that clear? ;) ;) ;)
ah, ok; it didn't compute as a joke, either (which i recognize is a special
form of joke); smileys are almost always *not* clear ;?>
I don't own a smartphone because I can't afford the phones nor the
calling& data plans. Plus, I wouldn't want to pay whatever it costs
to use one outside of one's home country on top of all that.
i don't doubt you've done your math on this; here's mine: the phone "cost" is
negligible (my iPhone 4 was $100 in Feb 2011, but i sold old my two-year-old
iPhone 3G to Amazon for $140), and my plan is $20/month over what my old
non-smartphone cost; for me, that's a better value proposition than paying for
something like cable TV (which i don't), but i sympathize with the desire to
minimize monthly charges (my thermostat is set to 62 day, 57 night)
note that the frugal geek can get a cheap used smartphone with a pay-per-use
SIM (swapping when going abroad) and without a data plan, then still do
geotagging (and web browsing, email, google voice, skype, etc. when in wifi range)
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