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Re:Pixel 8 Pro by dotancohen on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @06:25PM (#37772641)
Since buying a larger-screen e-ink device, I have been wanting to go back to a dumb phone. But just a few features preclude this.

1. Dialing in the dumb phone. No dumb phones support CardDav syncing.

2. Very few dumb phones can function as wifi hotspots for the e-ink device.

3. Few dumb phones can record calls.

4. I forget what eight was for... seriously I had one or two other issues but I don't remember what they were.

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Re:Pixel 8 Pro by bloopernova on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @09:22PM (#37773863)
Always up for a good Femmes reference!
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Re:Pixel 8 Pro by iancmceachern on Thursday October 05, 2023 @02:04AM (#37775364)
Android phones can't record calls either.
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Re:Pixel 8 Pro by dotancohen on Thursday October 05, 2023 @02:46AM (#37775562)
My current Samsung Note does.
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Re:Pixel 8 Pro by seanw444 on Thursday October 05, 2023 @12:11PM (#37780452)
My Pixel 7 Pro does. But I have GrapheneOS, so maybe that's not a vanilla feature.
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Re:Pixel 8 Pro by minorannoyance2 on Thursday October 05, 2023 @03:28AM (#37775767)
Recording calls was possible on pretty much any Android phone until google killed the accessibility API in May 2022, since then at least Google and Samsung phones can still record calls, it's just disabled in some countries for legal reasons, but people then buy phones from other regions on ebay/other similar platforms. It's been a "thing" for years.
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