question about Smart Phones, pre paid service and data plans...

[HBARleatherneck]

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[Wulf202]

You can probably just call your carrier and enable texts on your current phone.

Smart phones require data to do anything . Bar, slider and flip phones can text without data

[Great-Kazoo]

Yes, the spouse has a tracfone Samsung "smart phone" Believe it was $50ish from wallyworld in timnanth

[encorehunter]

I use straight talk with a samsung galaxy. It is $45 a month, so considerably more. I tried a Motorola, but they will not accept the"mass text" sent out from the dispatch computer when we are paged out for a fire. Make sure your phone will accept the mass text.

[brutal]

No direct experience, but a quick look at specs, the LG Destiny looks to be the best value.

5.0 Lollipop, micro SD card slot, 8GB internal

I would go drive them locally if you can before you decide.

Is that list based on your budget to spend on a phone, or what you're limited to where you're looking? Using a Weld county zip on tracfone's site, there appear to be more options.

[brutal]

https://www.amazon.com/TracFone-Sams.../dp/B01LXLGYSJ this is the 8GB phone

https://www.amazon.com/TracFone-Sams...0QHQ3XCEX&th=1 this is the 16GB phone

Bloatware will likely consume 4GB on these phones so you'll have little left to install other apps... I'd make that $119 16GB the top contender.

[brutal]

Just don't blame me if it sucks.

haha

[brutal]

You're stuck with most of the preloaded bloatware unless the phone has a safe root method and gets rooted. Then you're likely to void any warranty.

Some of the carriers let you disable some of the bloatware. Check in the device settings-application manager. If you installed an external SD, you can also move some apps off internal storage to the SD card.

Zege - once you assign that ringtone, it will get stored in the default location for that media by the phone OS, so it's probably safe to uninstall Zedge.

I do recommend swype for a replacement keyboard.

FYI, Google Play has a Family Library for sharing paid apps if you have any other Android smart phones.

If you don't have a dedicated scanner or are interested in nationwide events, take a look at Scanner Radio.

[Irving]

Camscan lets you take photos of documents and convert them to PDF. I've found that to be very handy.

[Irving]

Hey while we're talking about this, does anyone know how to edit the dictionary in the phone? I'd really like it if my phone would stop thinking that "amd" is a word and auto-correcting to make me look like an idiot all the time.