[FRIAM] Dumb phones?

[Gillian Densmore]

Mmm. Good point. John Oliver Has talked about that. Something like 55-60%
of all complaints are spam calls of any kind. I doubt tmobile is all that
great at doing their side to keep bad guys off the line.

On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 3:33 PM Tom Johnson <jtjohnson555 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I doubt it's the phone that's the problem.  It's your carrier and/or the
> fact that random numbers are dialed.  And if you ever answered one of those
> calls, that puts you into a special class of Let's-Call-Him-Again, a
> category that is sold and resold to other bad guys.
> Tom
>
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 11:45 AM Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've been thinking about my complaint about notification spam.
>> I spent (to much) time looking for brick, or feature phones, or smart
>> dumb phones. I know their  considered fairly retro and niche now.
>>
>> What are folks here experience with have a phone they swap to after X
>> times of day to still phone a phone on, in full contact, but that phone
>> just doesn't have the tech for notifications, or out right blocks them?
>> While I doubt feature phones are a thing. Has anyone tried getting using
>> some of these old school phones floating around. Nokia (for example) has
>> their 3310 phones back.
>>
>> Someone mentioned in my other thread iphones are fantastic for keeping
>> the spam sane. is iOS really that much better than android about
>> robocalls,  'important' fill in the blank updates?
>>
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