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It's a relatively expensive choice, and it's got tons of features you'll never use, for a phone that you keep off and in the car most of the time.
Actually, a flip phone would be a better option because of the superior battery life, if the power is out for days at a time.
Actually, a flip phone would be a better option because of the superior battery life, if the power is out for days at a time.
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This seems like a perfect use case for the new Nokia 3310. Standby time measured in weeks, and fifty bucks on Amazon.
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This is the 3G models - https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_us/nokia-3310-3g
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They have both 2G and 3G models. The 2G models (which is what the link above was to) are only sold in countries where it makes sense - which as you've implied doesn't include the US or many other countries.
This is the 3G models - https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_us/nokia-3310-3g
This is the 3G models - https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_us/nokia-3310-3g
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No one is, but you wouldn't be able to tell by the number of people calling their phones "GSM" or looking for a "GSM-unlocked" phone on the internet. These people just can't fathom GSM is a dead, outdated 2G technology shutting down all over the world. UMTS/HSPA is next up on the chopping block...
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No one is, but you wouldn't be able to tell by the number of people calling their phones "GSM" or looking for a "GSM-unlocked" phone on the internet. These people just can't fathom GSM is a dead, outdated 2G technology shutting down all over the world. UMTS/HSPA is next up on the chopping block...
Back to the topic of this thread (sorta) my iPhone SE in Belgium finally got to use VoLTE for the first time late last year, and the other two networks don't even have VoLTE yet. Unsurprisingly, there's not even a planned shutoff date for the GSM/EDGE networks here; it's looking like some countries may leave GSM/EDGE alive even after the 3G networks are shut down in the next 5ish years.
I still wouldn't buy one just to keep in the car, but the iPhone SE is sort of a unique phone--it's certainly showing its age now but it's still the only sub-5" smartphone that's not a total [expletive]box. In the Android world, the only phones that small are either weird not-really-phones or $30 sketchy Chinese phones running Android 6.
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No one is, but you wouldn't be able to tell by the number of people calling their phones "GSM" or looking for a "GSM-unlocked" phone on the internet. These people just can't fathom GSM is a dead, outdated 2G technology shutting down all over the world. UMTS/HSPA is next up on the chopping block...
Whilst that's obviously not even close to true in the LTE days, it was still a reasonable approximation for the truth in the "3G" days.
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You'd be surprised how many places in the world do not have reliable LTE service.
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To a lot of people, GSM is the opposite of "whatever the hell it is that Verizon uses". A phone is either GSM and works on T-Mobile and AT&T, or it's non-GSM and works on Verizon and Sprint.
Whilst that's obviously not even close to true in the LTE days, it was still a reasonable approximation for the truth in the "3G" days.
Whilst that's obviously not even close to true in the LTE days, it was still a reasonable approximation for the truth in the "3G" days.
Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM
Source - https://about.att.com/innovationblog/2g_sunset
Source - https://support.t-mobile.com/thread/143870
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Not sure what your point is, @timfountain, but in the US @docbert had it right; (and especially a few years back) you either bought a "GSM" phone or a "Sprint/Verizon" one.