Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

vivatifosi

We have a Panasonic as per Gen's suggestion. It is very good, much better than the old one which went to phone heaven. Battery life is good, voice clear, some good features. The only thing I don't like is that it doesn't ring like a phone. When I got them they were a high scoring product on Amazon and I think they were a Best Buy from Which? too (iirc). I've seen them on special somewhere recently but can't remember where as this time of year the shops are all one long blur, but you should be able to get a good deal on them zag.

vivatifosi

Generali wrote: »

I'm surprised that people still have a home phone. I haven't given anyone my landline number for a decade I reckon.

There's a clear age deliniation on this one I think Gen. I find that most young people only have a mobile, most 35-80 year olds have both a mobile and home phone. Many though not a big majority of older people have home phones only. I'm not sure if this is a technical thing necessarily, it could also be down to facilities for vision and hearing.

It's the same with email addresses. A small number of older people have no email address. Some in the 40+ group are very hesitant to give their email address. Most over 40s have an email addy that's linked to their provider. Anyone I meet in their 20s has numerous hotmail/gmail type accounts and a fair few even have their own domains with email addys attached.

The younger people are, the more comfortable they are having two parallel existences, one in RL and the other as a pixel. It astonishes me the information that people volunteer about themselves, but then I'm a fogie who won't even allow a photo with my name attached on their facebook accounts.

LydiaJ

I still use our landline a lot, both for ringing other people and as a number to give to businesses. Most businesses that want a phone number from me are things that I wouldn't want to be hassled with at work, so I would never give them my mobile number. I suppose if you work in an office, that wouldn't be so much of a consideration, though.

A mercury button doesn't seem so old to me. It was well into this century before my parents finally got rid of their bakelite dial phone hard wired into the wall with a woven cord cable that predated plastic curly ones. It was in the house when they bought the place in 1959. They jumped straight from that to digital cordless with answerphone, and bypassed all the intervening stages.

The first TV they ever bought was flat screen digital, HD ready etc. They didn't see any need to have one until 2009.

LydiaJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

There's a clear age deliniation on this one I think Gen. I find that most young people only have a mobile, most 35-80 year olds have both a mobile and home phone. Many though not a big majority of older people have home phones only. I'm not sure if this is a technical thing necessarily, it could also be down to facilities for vision and hearing.

I'm 43 and have both, so I fit that pattern. How old are you, Generali?

misskool

i'm 33 1/3 and have a landline and a mobile. I almost never give out the landline though. I also don't have my real photo on my facebook account.

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

Am I the only one who lives in the SE and finds a bit of drizzle interspersed with nice fresh mild sunnyish days where going out in a sweater is relaxing is actually not a bad type of weather especially when it comes to paying the gas bill....

Just been for a walk on Hampstead Heath and to deliver some plants to a friend. The weather is fine, although very overcast, but the ground is very, very muddy round here, as we are on clay mostly.

silvercar

We have a landline (with panasonic cordless phones). All inclusive call package to other landlines. Everyone is on strict instructions to dial mobile to mobile and landline to landline.

Generally need a landline to enable others to call it. Need a landline number as it doubles up as my work phone and fax. Also I'm still unsure about using mobiles too much cooking your brain.

michaels

We have a landline but would probably drop it if you could get internet without it. Pretty much only my mum calls me on it. We also use it (via over-ride services) for calling folks abroad.

sss555s

zagubov wrote: »

The other threads aren't packed with suggestions- any NPs got a good recommendation.

All the NP are pretty savy, It's gotta be Panasonic for quality and reliability. Don't think there is much difference in cost either.

I pay the LL line rental up front and use it for free "evening and weekend" calls. Use my mobile for working hours calls because of the free minutes.
I notice the cost of a "daytime" call on that land line tariff is pretty expensive.

The thing that catches me out is the call divert, which is annoying when it's a spam call, but worth it overall.

Like most on here I also use Say-no for the expensive numbers.

zagubov

sss555s wrote: »

All the NP are pretty savy, It's gotta be Panasonic for quality and reliability. Don't think there is much difference in cost either.

I pay the LL line rental up front and use it for free "evening and weekend" calls. Use my mobile for working hours calls because of the free minutes.
I notice the cost of a "daytime" call on that land line tariff is pretty expensive.

The thing that catches me out is the call divert, which is annoying when it's a spam call, but worth it overall.

Like most on here I also use Say-no for the expensive numbers.

Thanks everybody!

Panasonic it is.
Got a half-price Argos triple handset. :beer:

Don't think it has all the bells and whistles but life's too short to learn how to use most of them. As long as it doesn't set fire to my ears/ cause cancer of the elbows/ irreversibly stain the furniture, I'll be glad if it makes and recieves phone calls properly.:D


Now need to find out how tro replace Virgin as my phone company. Don't even know if we've got a BT landline (the understairs has a maze of phone lines coming up from the floorboards but its anybody's guess if any are connected to the outside).

Another thread has recommended plusnet on price for internet plus phone. I seem to recall that some users had issues with thier speed or something. Am I imagining it?

Got to say Virgin are fast but the connection randomly disappears now and then (rarely and temporariy I must say).

And we don't need their TV package when there's Freeview and
http://www.tv-replay.co.uk/

Probably gen uses this all the time as do all our student kids but I'll probably make it one of my faves.;)