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Re:Nokia 3310 review: No matter how much you think you want ... by conception on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @11:11AM (#14410572)
I was looking into feature phones but this seems like the worst time to buy as Qualcomm just announced a new chaip-set for feature phones to give them LTE and the like. 2.5G won't be around forever and feature phone or not, EDGE is not how you want to do anything on the internet.
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Re:Nokia 3310 review: No matter how much you think you want ... by fsiefken on Thursday May 25, 2017 @02:44AM (#14415704)
Battery life will suffer significantly with LTE, this is the reason why I use a Pebble instead of an Android smartwatch. Edge works good enough for checking e-mails and the occasional lookup or using SSH through Mosh if allows usb tethering.
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Re:Nokia 3310 review: No matter how much you think you want ... by petre on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @03:15PM (#14412669)
Yop, it's dumb to buy a 2G phone today. The industry wants to ditch 3G also and jump directly to LTE because of royalities to Qualcomm for 3G. They can sell LTE chipsets 7$ cheaper.
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