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On Sep 1, 2009, at 10:36 PM, grarpamp wrote:

>> I've had the same experience. A $10 "pay as you go" phone
>
> $10? Really? Which one and where? I see $20++ current models often,
> and some $15 tmo nokia 1208's still on clearance.
>
>> works wonders for this.
>
> Sure, unless you:
> - Don't want to spend money.
> - Don't feel like giving away your location to cell towers and  
> databases.
> - Want to create more than one email account... because they'd all
> tie back to that phone and appear to google as related.
> - Don't want to give up your voiceprint, credit card, address, ssn,
> etc if it's required to activate cell.
> - Don't want to buy one phone per google account.
> - Don't want multiple new accounts popping up in say Dallas, TX that  
> may
> or may not have your lingual, contact and click patterns.
> - Etc, etc.
>
> Google just doesn't seem to be a cool company in general anymore.
> And if they've enabled SMS requirement for regular would be users
> non-tor internet connection, what a huge foot shooting that would be.


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