DuckDuckGo it is here on all devices as default.

The thing is, for a while, I needed to go back to google to find some things. This has become more rate, but I can't say if I just shrug it off or if the search got better.

But I had felt a decline in quality on google before. It might work for common stuff, but detailed linux/computer or philosophical research brought up too many crappy results.

Jebus chrips are the only videos currently on youtube Galaxy Note 7 unboxing videos?

Don't know if the Note is any good, I didn't watch any of the videos.*   How does a phone work without a microphone?
My Galaxy S3 still works fine.  The battery life has gotten "meh" and as of late it seems to act very sluggish.

*okay, I clicked on one Note video... my mistake.  I looked at the thumbnail and wondered "What the hell is that big round thing?"  turns out, it was the wireless charger.  

I still be happy with my Nokia 60xx, it made phone calls.

There is another way to talk on the phone?

I have a great but long story about texting, but it is probably funnier to me because I know the people involved.  The very short less involved version of the story....

My first cell phone was one of the first cell phone's AT&T offered with that feature.  It was the standard model but with upgraded software.  I worked for AT&T at the time, employees were the first to get it.  They were still testing it when my phone arrived, my first text was more or less 'Texting, sounds like a stupid idea.'  My co-worker replied, "I agree, why wouldn't you just call the person?"

Just after I got a phone that could do texting, I was babysitting for someone and they asked me to call when their kid went to sleep, but they were going to be at a cocktail party... and that's awkward...

I remember them getting wide-eyed when I said "I could just text you" as if it was the best idea they'd ever heard of.

This was somewhere between '99 and '02. 

 

I had thought texting existed before my phone but I was told that I just happened to send my text in the "testing period"  (Part of my funny story)  A co-worker who had the same model phone as me but purchased it several months before didn't have the option to text.  That was the funny part, he looked so sad that my phone had this silly text option and his didn't.  He demanded a replacement which he got.  When it arrived he sent a text and it didn't go through. Angry he called tech support who had not heard of text messaging. He was furious. He talked to the next level of techs and  found out AT&T turned text messaging off for software updates, changes and other tests.
That was made it so funny.  My first co-worker and I thought it was stupid. Our first text sent were probably monitored by the engineers.  The other co-worker gets the same model phone as he already had just with different software and the software didn't work because the network turned it off.  (Poor guy,) 

That was around 2000.  

You lucky bastard! I didn't even have T9 on my first four cell phones!

But we never got charged for receiving a message.