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Originally Posted by Electronic M
I can't afford a smart phone nor can my folks, so I don't have sympathy for those who can, and can't deal with their phones' problems. When some of my computers I've had to piece together from 10-15 year old garbage and then make work properly.
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Why don't you get a Tracfone? Many of them are smartphones with cameras, and are dirt cheap these days to boot. (Airtime cards are affordable as well.) The maintenance man at my apartment building has one of these prepaid smartphones, and he hasn't had five minutes worth of trouble with it yet.
BTW, as for myself, I don't have a smartphone, but I do have a tablet I have added quite a bit to in the year or so I've had it, including an Internet telephone app that works very well and a VoIP amateur radio app (EchoLink) as well. The stock camera isn't too good, but I got around that by installing a camera app (Zoom Camera Pro) from the Google Play Store that runs rings around it; it takes amazingly clear and sharp photos, much more so than the stock camera. I like it because, among other things, it has a feature that allows me to take a photo by touching anywhere on the screen, something the tablet's stock camera doesn't have, and I found annoying since I am left-handed; the shutter button on most camera apps is at the right side of the screen. The Zoom Camera Pro app also has the capability to e-mail photos to the user's personal e-mail account (something I use a lot, since my tablet doesn't have much on-board storage space and the SD card fills up quickly as well, causing the camera to issue an "SD card unmounted or not present" warning unless I regularly e-mail images to my inbox) as well as a feature to post photos to Facebook.