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Re:I Give Up on Free Software Phones by AdamJacobMuller on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @06:57PM (#36411896)
Exactly true.

From the original list, I really don't care at all about 1/2/3 (phone calls) and only care vaguely about SMS.

My requirements are for an excellent browser and an app store with support for messaging platforms (telegram/signal/skype/slack/teams/etc) and email support, everything else is either "extra" or an outright distraction I'd probably be better off without (twitter, reddit, etc).

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Re:I Give Up on Free Software Phones by TRiG_Ireland on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @07:23PM (#36412156)
My phone exists mostly for YouTube, WhatsApp, and providing a wifi hotspot for my desktop computers. (It is irritating that much about the phone itself assumes that the mobile broadband is a fallback, and that I have a separate internet connection to give me wifi. I don't. It sometimes refuses to install updates over mobile broadband, and insists that I find a wifi connection from somewhere, by going out to a café or something.)
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