Hmm [smart-o-phone dilemmas]

[rebeccmeister]

I appear to be back to a scenario where my cell service provider (AT&T reseller) is not allowing me to make or receive phone calls, oh yey.

Trawling the internet, it's probably because this smart-o-phone is now "ancient" (Nexus 5x) in the context of service providers phasing out 3G, sometimes failing to actually have 4G, and only certain devices getting 5G certified.

...time to go back to a land line?

Time for the Latest & Greatest, in the hopes that it limps along the longest before it, too, reaches its Planned Obsolescence limit?

Time to figure out how to obtain a Fairphone?

Which do I loathe less, Fruit Company or the Oogley?

Sigh.

Comments

[twoeleven]

You know you want a Fairphone. :)

Barring that, I'd recommend loathing Orange less. Both companies spy on us, but Orange's store at least isn't full of malware.

[graydon]

You might be less annoyed by robust phones? Ulefone, AGM, or Unihertz all have (to my notions, anyway) much better value propositions than the usual run of fashion phones.

[rebeccmeister]

I am starting to admire the utility of a phone with a halfway decent thermal imaging camera!

[graydon]

It can be quite handy!

I am hoping the general "turn into a tricorder" trend with phones manages to continue; no obvious technical bar to putting CO and CO2 sensors in there, for example.

[larryhammer]

Ugh. Sigh. So sorry to hear this. (Both for you and the state of our network.)