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Re:An industry based on missed calls helped bring India online by walrus01 on Saturday April 10, 2021 @03:58PM (#26764566)
I would encourage any North American or European interested in this sort of thing to go buy a $45 Android phone from aliexpress (or two or three different models, if you're really interested) to see first hand what the very low end of the mobile data smartphone market looks like these days.

There are some things out there based on reference mediatek chipset designs that are remarkably not terrible relative to their price. Create a new fake named gmail/google account on one, install some apps from the play store, mess around with it.

randomly chosen example: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001470142781.html?spm=a2...

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001586490693.html?spm=a2...

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Re:An industry based on missed calls helped bring India online by baybal2 on Saturday April 10, 2021 @04:51PM (#26765018)
The problem is cellphone sellers on Aliexpress frequently are simple scams.

I.e. you buy something from a seemingly not complete scam seller with few hundred of reviews, you get your tracking number, but nothing actually arrives despite tracking showing somebody in your country claiming the package.

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