Tim wrote:
HA! I got the new phone which is smaller than my older one but has a
lot more features. Still a flip-phone though. Now I have to switch
over a bunch of numbers. And unfortunately, I couldnt' keep my old
existing number, because cellular 1 was a local company and I had a
local number. Verizon doesn't have a local office so i was issued a
new number. so got boned there, but otherswise.....

Now I wonder how long this one will hold up?


How long the phone holds up depends upon how much you abuse it.
My wife has an LG flip phone she uses a lot, and she usually gets two
years out of them before she gets a new one.

On the other hand, I have an old buddy with an equilibrium problem that
I suspect is caused by single malt. At least once and usually twice a
summer, he manages to fall off the dock into the drink and he always has
his cell phone with him. So, he gets at least one new phone a year.

If you are talking about switching over phone numbers stored in your old
phone, Verizon should be able to do that at no cost at one of its
offices. There also is an on-line Verizon stored phone numbers manager
application which lets you type the numbers you want to safe on your
computer, load them up to the app on line and it will download them to
your cell phone. I am sure most of the larger providers have an
identical service.

I use gmail to type in, store, and download my cell phone numbers. I
like it better than the verizon app that does pretty much the same thing.