Aye it's just another type of WIFI calling, your phone does all of this autmotatically
There's a lot of good advice on this thread but as someone said above what is it you actually want a smart phone for?
By the sound of it you probably don't need one.
I've had a smart phone for at least 15 years and my habits are changing now I rarely use it for phoning folk and I rarely use for checking my bank.
I use it for buying literally everything. I never carry credit or debit cards or cash these days.
I use it for checking my emails on the go but even that's getting less and less and I use to text customers and my wife and family.
I also use it to take photos of whatever I'm doing work wise ie photo of a tap and go and buy the same tap etc.
I also use it to buy stuff on the go from some suppliers, Screwfix, Amazon, ebay and a couple of others via their apps.
The phone's good for traveling abroad ie boarding passes and hotel reservations etc and for spending abroad and I can also check purchases abroad via my credit card company's app and other stuff like that.
I can read the news via Apple News but my phone is too small so I don't really bother now.
I do use it to check the weather everyday but that's about all I use it for and occasionally I'll connect it to my earphones and maybe listen to a podcast or some music if I'm out walking for example but I hardly ever use it as a 'phone'.
Re landline I have mine permanently forward incoming landline calls to my mobile via VOIP which is just basically an internet connected phone so someone phone's my 'landline' and that call is diverted/sent to my mobile via my router.
Hardly anyone calls me these days on a 'landline' I've been in business for 35 years and it used to be mainly landline calls from customers but that's more or less ended now. I have a landline number that I still use but that was 'ported' from BT business about five years ago, costs £15 to port the number to an internet telephony company who are literally buttons for the monthly contract and the calls, previously with BT business I was paying about £56 a month for a contract which included all landline calls diverted to my mobile now I pay about £2 a month for the same service albeit it's an internet phone set up, previously BT charged something like £10 a minute to call Spain, for example, I now pay less than a £1 and local calls (UK) are about 10p a minute or less.
I use Andrews and Arnold for the above service.
Tony
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