Replacing Cell Phone with Laptop with Internet Connectivity

Dec 30, 2009 1 Replies

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Ramu 16 years ago

The cost of ownership of my cell phone has become pretty high, at least for my budget.

I'd like to explore any viable alternate to a cell phone, perhaps using a combination of laptop running Linux with Internet connectivity.

Can anyone share any pointers or experiences?

Thanks,

Ramu

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Peter Pan 16 years ago

easy peazy (if you are in one of 29 countries it is available in), i (at the house at least) use this

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phone thing, 19.95 a YEAR (under $2 a month), plugs into any computers usb port that has internet access, and a cordless phone plugged into it/has an rj45 jack, (or under $2 for a corded phone at walmart) use it on my laptop/netbook (works with wifi networks) too when travelling (ps, one of my laptops runs ubuntu linux, bit trickier since the magicjack software is a windows program, but many progs run under linux and let you run windows programs)

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