No problem, they may end up being used without phone service. Still a good buy at $15. A cheap offline GPS for instance or a cheap OBDII reader with an elm device or for Christmas gifts.
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I tire of all the ramblings and like Popeye sometimes said "That's all I can stands, cuz I can't stands n'more!"
Sorry to go off topic, but this portion of your post reminded me of another oldie but goodie that Bozo the Clown used to say in his cartoons: "Enough is enough and enough is too much!"
Who woulda thunk, "back in the day", that these two characters (literally) would be the source of such prescient comments regarding our current political scene?