I had to get a single purpose device phone. Simple as that. I have to run one application. It will never be on a Wi-Fi network. I'll trust the cell tower (not like I have a choice) but not the random Wi-Fi.

I will do nothing with that phone other than run that one application. There will be no web surfing on that phone. Maybe I'll make a phone call occasionally for security checks. That's it.

My current phone is probably hacked. Or the application that wants to run that won't run in my current phone is misreading the world. Either way I'm not taking a chance.

I'll be wiping and resetting soon enough. Hopefully it's enough. If not it will be replaced.

Got a piece of s*** phone. It was free on M's plan. Really free, not pay off in 24 months free. She's had that plan a very long time. But it's still a piece of s***.

It was the only phone they had in stock and pushed upon us. There were many choices on the plan that I would much rather had but it didn't matter. I had to get it today. I'm not waiting for non guaranteed shipping. Galaxy a32 5G. Do not get this phone.

Even after I read the bad reviews about it being a bit laggy for a phone in 2021 I thought my phone was 4 years old and I love it. It's a pixel. Whatever the lowest entry level one was at the time. And it's great. My next phone will be the next whatever pixel.

The lag on this is incredible and the interface is off the wall archaic. I've watched the evolution of Android based on my experience with multiple non Google phones and then finally the Pixel and I realized that you're always getting the greatest s*** on the Pixel and whatever the other guys put in it just annoys you because it simply makes it different than the default Android interface which I like. Also they had all kinds of side utilities to try to sell you s***.

This phone's fingerprint scanner is on the middle right side. Exactly where my finger rests by default. Every time I look at this phone after it's been anywhere near my hand the screen reads that I've tried to log in with my thumb too many times and put the password in now. I was just holding it.

I was supposed to get a local number. They gave me a number from Vancouver South Dakota. I just called myself and found that out. What the f***? So I will get a different number, they will change my number.

So anyway, stay away from this phone. It sucks.

They didn't have anything else in stock.

I've had three Samsungs so far.

I've been very happy with all of them. I am only complaining about this specific phone.

We are free to engage in open commerce with each party being free to assign responsibilities to themselves as part of a contract.

As a long-term customer of a particular company my wife gets a free phone every x years rather than has to pay for or put on a payoff plan. It's usually a reasonable free phone. Not top of the line, not crap, with choices.

If I was willing to wait 3 days I would have had any of my choices from the list, several of which were very nice. It didn't matter. I needed it then and I decided as a single purpose device it wasn't worth paying any upgrade fee on the phone itself, so I took the phone they had in stock. The one and only out of the list.

So it works perfectly fine for my purpose. I'm just giving a heads up that if anybody actually wanted to use it as a phone it's probably not the best idea.

Phones are advanced computers at this point. They are complex multifunction devices that are amazing for size and cost.

Anything in the 3 to $500 range is typically a reasonable device. Except for what I took that day. But that's okay. I made my choice.

They get fancy and expensive. At the $600 range they become amazing. At the $1,000 range it's beyond Star Trek. People buy them on contract because they don't want to lay down a thousand bucks. So the cell company finances it. Whoopie doo.

If you just want to buy one you can. People do it all the time. And then they drop a sim in it and attach to a given cell company. No big deal either.

These are choices. Either are reasonable depending on the situation.

In the early days the cell companies would lock a phone to their network. And they would cause major hassles to people when they wanted to move networks because a person would have to get a new phone and a new phone number.

Then it became law that they had to provide portable phone numbers so you take your phone number with you no matter where you go. All the sudden there were companies saying come to us and bring your phone.

So we have decent competition in that arena since we just carry our number with us wherever we go and the phone companies now fight for us. They don't care if you bring sure own phone. The signals were standardized years ago.

There is a certain entry level phone that is simply a requirement to play the game. If someone wants to buy a disposable phone that's their decision.

Sure they still sell locked in flip phones or entry-level second-tier devices. But the next tier up is only $100.

I will trade levels of comfort for levels of safety with awareness.

I hate touching M's phone. I recoil in horror every time I have to try to do anything to help her. I hate the interface.

My first smartphone / PDA was a Treo. I've had multiple black berries. With and without the trackball and the keyboard and the scroll wheel. All the way up to the pretty fancy flat screen right before they tanked.

Simultaneously I had multiple iPhones. I was very comfortable with the midlife iPhone interface. Had them for years.

Then I started down the Android path. And as I said I watched them evolve and had my hands in the other guys simultaneously.

I know what I like and I'm sticking to it and I am not going to fall into an interface that makes me question every button I push. Every swipe I make. I recoil in horror.

It's been years since I set up an open BSD box and filtered and watched everything. Those days are over.

My home network is whatever crap the internet provider provided. So no. Cell tower. Internet over that and I am fine.

And yes I need it when I'm out and about occasionally.

That's how long it takes me to hum the theme of Jeopardy including the final two bump bump. That is an absolute worst case scenario of how long something should take to come back.

Websites should load within about 2 seconds but I'll give them 18 seconds. Then I will abandon them.

When I coded interactive systems, two breaths was all I would allow for a result to return before figuring out how to do it faster or throw it into the background. I always targeted before someone lifted their hand off the enter key.

When I was doing that I was splitting a single 386 chip between 30 people with 16 megabytes of memory. It was running their full screen interface as well as everything else in the database. Everyone was running Oracle queries constantly simultaneously as well as updating the shared database. Everyone was typing into and the editorial interface running on that chip. The devices we hold in our hands are a hundred times more powerful. Non network local stuff should not lag in the slightest. Websites will lag depending on how stupid the people on the back end are combined with bad network connections and latency.

You said 60 seconds? I don't believe you. I think you get annoyed and frustrated after 20, possibly less. Start counting as you wait for web pages and get back to me. What's your real number?