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What to do with an Android spare smartphone (no sim card)? (mander.xyz)

submitted 4 months ago by Mothra@mander.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Turns out Australia is removing 3G support nationwide and that means I have to upgrade. I've had my phone for at least 4 years but it runs well, I wasn't planning on upgrading for at least another year.

I want to keep using it, but I'm not too tech oriented so my thinking has been, " I can play music with it, some games, videos"...And that's fine. But perhaps some of you guys have more creative ideas? Curious as to what would you recommend.

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've had my phone for at least 4 years but it runs well,

What's the exact phone model? I'd be really surprised such a phone wouldn't support LTE, 5G was about to come out 4 years ago. Even the OG pixel should support LTE. Unless your issue is lack of VoLTE support, which sometimes can be remediated with root or custom roms. Although I find the Internet portion to be more useful anyway, as you can just route the calls over regular VoIP and use Signal or Matrix or Discord or whatever.

Unless it's a Samsung, then you're kind of SoL into the fix by modding department, you're stuck with what regular Android apps can do.

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

Motorola g8. Lack of VoLTE indeed. I wouldn't want to rely on my internet connection, Australia is famous for its subpar internet and I've been in many places where coverage is very patchy.