You might find an extended capacity battery for your phone on eBay or Amazon,
along with an expanded battery cover. Sometimes they can squeeze a few hundred
more mah into the stock battery space. When I had a Galaxy S2 (Samsung Epic 4G)
that's what I got. The little extra made the difference.
For a TV, go big, go 4K and get a smart TV. Samsung's TVs run their Tizen OS.
Some other brands run Android. If you do nothing else with a Smart TV, you can
watch a lot of movies for free on YouTube. Paramount has put a bunch of their
older ones on the Paramount Vault channel. There's a few commercials but the
movies are uncut and you can pause and 'rewind' without needing a DVR.
From: Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net>
To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2017 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users] [OT] Wife is good to go
On Sunday 19 February 2017 21:16:58 Chris Albertson wrote:
> I don't know the make and model phone you have but with most modern
> phones you can NOT buy a replacement except from the manufacturer.
> New phones use custom made batteries that are just for that one model
> of phone. Apple can replace a battery if you bring the phone into
> the store.
>
> In the old days there were "battery compartments" that opened up and
> you could drop out a battery. Not any more.
You still can with an alcatel tracfone. A fingernail in the back cover
pops it loose, and the battery is a nearly square one on spring loaded
contacts, which the same fingernail can pop it out, a 3.7 volt li-on
rated at 850 mah. Rather puny IMO, but its also less than 1/8" thick
too. So if I do go shopping tomorrow, I at least know what I am looking
for, aka a step in the right direction.
I also need to get 2 pair of some sort of call buttons so we can be
wearing one pair while the other set is on charge.
I might toss in a 36-38" tv too, that visio we've had for several years
is exhibiting symptoms of about a coffee cup worth of smallish
electrolytic caps all with ESR's above 10 ohms. $15-25 worth of caps,
$120 for a tester, and several hours to locate and change all the bad
ones. I can almost bring another tv home for that, and have a remote
that actually works for 6 months or so. Just long enough to use up the
warranty. :(
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