I use an iPod touch, and use Skype to make phone calls for 2.5 cents a minute, via wi-fi.
The iPod touch is a one-time purchase of about $229
rogerX
--- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, "Jerry Gmail" <jhnidy@...> wrote:
>
> I am not a big telephone user so I carry an AT&T Go phone. I have to add
> minutes every 90 days or the account goes away and takes whatever money is
> left over.
>
> I also have a Pandigital eReader which I was recently able to update to the
> android operating system.
>
> The eReader can access the net as long as I am close to a wifi hot spot.
>
> So it seemed to me that I should be able to buy a go phone with wifi and
> surf the net "free" as long as I stayed at Panera Bread.
>
> I went to the AT&T store and they told me that no such phone exists. Every
> smart phone would require a data account and that means some amount of money
> per month to carry the phone. I believe that the lowest number was like 50.
>
> So I gotta ask: Am I a lighthouse keeper? Does anybody else think it would
> be neat to carry a phone that can net with wifi?
>
> Is it true that no phone like this is on earth?
>
> Thanks
>
> Google Jer
> Woodhaven, Mi
>
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