Upgrading Messaging on Android in the U.S. with RCS

Re:Upgrading Messaging on Android in the U.S. with RCS by JohnFen on Thursday November 14, 2019 @05:03PM (#21539962)

> That said I feel like we're going into this weird place where you have to have a cell phone even though every day i feel like wanting to have one less and less.

I hear you. I reached that place a couple of years ago.

My current smartphone probably has 2 or 3 years of life left in it, so I'm considering that as a deadline for coming up with an alternate plan. In thinking about it, the main thing I like about having a smartphone is having a personal computer in my pocket. So...

First, I badly want out of the Android ecosystem, so I going to carry a real pocket computer that runs real Linux. That will be my primary device.

I'll supplement that with the dumbest feature phone that I can find that will allow tethering data connections, and use that for texting, backup internet access, and emergency phone calls.

It's not going phoneless, but it's as close to that as I can get without missing out on functionality that matters to me.

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Re:Upgrading Messaging on Android in the U.S. with RCS by flattone on Friday November 15, 2019 @09:06AM (#21544843)

>First, I badly want out of the Android ecosystem, so I going to carry a real pocket computer that runs real Linux.

Contender: https://pocket.popcorncomputer.com/

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Re:Upgrading Messaging on Android in the U.S. with RCS by JohnFen on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:49AM (#21546349)

Yeah, I'd already investigated that, but it doesn't meet my needs. The Gemini might, but I have to investigate a couple of things. If that doesn't work for me, then I'll just build my own.

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