My wife and I kept flip phones (Dumb Phones) until a about month a go. I swore I would hold out to the bitter end as far as getting one of them there so called smart phones. Sometimes us older folks just don't like CHANGE. I wouldn't into texting, heck it costed me every time someone sent me a message. I see all these younger people constantly texting, carrying that smart phone around, heck some of them almost walk out into traffic not paying attention.
Well, I gave it some serious thought and really hated to fork out a bunch more money for a phone data plan. However I could see the benefit of real time weather if I was at deer camp or on the farm and lets say a tornado or bad storm was coming. Or being able to look something up on the internet at a moments notice. I weighed out the advantages versus the cost.
Well we did take the plunge and virtually got two $600 dollar phones for free at the time. Went to that phone place one Saturday morning (Valentines Day if I remember correctly) and started looking over all the gadgets. I had already done some research online and kind of had an idea about a couple of different models. We picked out two android phones of the same model except hers was a different color and she got the pretty little pink case to protect it. Our phone bill went from $80 dollars or so to about $120 or so. I got insurance on them because with my luck, my phone will be dropped in the creek or lake somewhere. And yea that texting does come in pretty handy if you just don't want to talk to someone on the phone. Some people can be rather long winded. I also think some people will answer a text faster than they would answer your phone call.
It is what it is as far as the saying goes, here we are, it is 2015 so I suppose we adapt or get left behind.