It depends on whether you have 'location' enabled on your cell. I keep mine off, but if I needed 911, I would touch it on first.
Added: I also turn on location for driving directions and to use Uber or Lyft.
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Who has gone full digital?
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Added: I also turn on location for driving directions and to use Uber or Lyft.
pittpa
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I have a "home phone" but it is a cellular device that Verizon sells, into which I plug my cordless base phone. My cordless handsets have Bluetooth as well so I can answer my cell phone using the cordless phones in other rooms. However the Bluetooth is not that clear on the cordless phones. But the cordless sets are crystal clear with the home phone.
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Haven't had a land line in years. We cut the cable TV about 3 years ago so everything is now streamed. Haven't missed the cable either. Never really thought of myself as "all digital" but I guess maybe, except for my watch, I am.
I have a landline, and OMG, bank at Wells Fargo. 
JcMack
Member
I tried the no land line thing for a while a couple years ago. But it means knowing where your cell phone is all the time. I can't remember what day of the week it is most of the time. I got a VOIP gizmo and it costs $16 bucks a month. Cell is still a good thing if I'm outside and fall down and can't get up.
Comcast was here today and replaced the old Frontier landline with a new hybrid one. I have a phone at my right hand as I am typing this and I use it a lot when placing orders, etc.
I enjoy talking more on a regular phone than I do my cell.
I enjoy talking more on a regular phone than I do my cell.
Harrison
US Veteran
My flip phone works just fine for what I need a cell phone for.
We have our landline still.
Steve W
Steve W
That's the part that gives me pause
Why? What are you implying?
Flip phone and landline for me.
Justin T
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We were all digital for many years but re-activated a land line for a couple of reasons.
First I have kids at home that are mature enough to be home alone but do not have cell phones. My wife and i ise the land line to communicate when we are out.
Second, a landline is handy if the power goes out due to hurricanes.
First I have kids at home that are mature enough to be home alone but do not have cell phones. My wife and i ise the land line to communicate when we are out.
Second, a landline is handy if the power goes out due to hurricanes.
Got rid of the land line out here years ago. The wires are old and have been spliced many times over the years from falling trees during storms here in Florida. It got so bad every time it rained the static was so bad you could not hear. Even turned into a party line one time for those that remember them. The phone guy told me it had so many splices they could not even find the problem splices.
After AT&T tried to juice me for $100/month for a POTS (Plain old telephone service) line, I switched to VOIP (voice over internet protocol) for the house phone. $10/mo.
Having 3 teenage girls, I was forced to get a smartphone.
Having 3 teenage girls, I was forced to get a smartphone.
Fishslayer
US Veteran, Absent Comrade
ggibson511960
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Cell Phone 911 Shortcomings
If one is really paranoid about potential 911 use, there is a reason to use a landline, best explained here:
What You Should Know About Calling 911 in 2020 | Safety.com
In a panic, few will ever remember the disadvantages of a 911 cell phone call, but if you are aware of the cell phone location technology limitation it will help to tell the 911 operator your exact location.
If one is really paranoid about potential 911 use, there is a reason to use a landline, best explained here:
What You Should Know About Calling 911 in 2020 | Safety.com
In a panic, few will ever remember the disadvantages of a 911 cell phone call, but if you are aware of the cell phone location technology limitation it will help to tell the 911 operator your exact location.
Where do I start? I just don't trust anything that is so powerful and that the government may be able to access/control without my knowledge. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but think of the sheer volume of personal information contained on the average smartphone. As intent as you are to ensure that information isn't accessible to any other person or entity, there are others who are just as intent to access it for themselves. I have to use a smartphone and tablet for work, but I don't own either personally and keep my personal information on both devices to a bare minimum. A friend showed me an app the other day called "my arms cache" or something like that. He has all of the weapons he owns, model numbers, serial numbers, descriptions, etc., as well as cataloguing all of his reloading components and loaded rounds. I just shook my head. Like I said, maybe I'm paranoid.
We all like science fiction. A good analogy I would present is in "Battlestar Gallactica" when Adama was branded as a dinosaur because he would not allow his battlestar's computers and systems to be integrated with the rest of the fleet. Then the whole fleet gets invaded, first by computers turning their own weapons against them, then by the Cylons. Adama's ship being the only one left flying and the only hope for humanity.
Ok, so maybe that's a little extreme and maybe I've been reading too many Ralph Peters novels, but I worry about the extent we all turn our lives over to our devices. I get some of that paranoia from my dad...he never even trusted ATM's and claimed that if a bank was too busy to speak to him in person, they didn't want his business. He quoted the line from George Orwell often: "Big brother is watching."
@tlawler, I understand and can appreciate the "Big Brother" concept. I use my cellphone for a lot of things and make the most of what it offers.
On a personal level Ruthie's cellphone and 911 have officially saved my life twice when a landline was not available. Not a day goes by that I am not grateful that the technology existed when it did.
Whether folks use the technology available to us or not is their choice and I respect that but this is the world in which we live and electronic communication and information gathering are only going to become a bigger part of it.
Besides, can a flip phone do this?
On a personal level Ruthie's cellphone and 911 have officially saved my life twice when a landline was not available. Not a day goes by that I am not grateful that the technology existed when it did.
Whether folks use the technology available to us or not is their choice and I respect that but this is the world in which we live and electronic communication and information gathering are only going to become a bigger part of it.
Besides, can a flip phone do this?
I guess I'm all digital. Smart phones, computers, cable internet, smart TVs, no TV cable. My "landline" is actually not a landline. It's VOIP. It's the only number I give out to businesses and people I don't really want to talk to. It doesn't get answered, but I do monitor the voicemails in case something important comes across. I pay 99.9% of my bills with online banking. Paychecks are direct deposit. I deposit other checks digitally by taking pictures of them. About two or three times a year I actually have to mail a check to some one.
TheHobbyist
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Mix of the old and new technology. Gave up on wristwatches for a while (smartphones) then a couple years ago had to go back...just something about it and it does make me more productive. Very rarely will carry a pocket watch, not as convenient, but enjoy checking time on it.
