• guyrocket
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    1110 months ago

    I have both a smartphone and a flip phone.

    I kept both because the flip phone lets me make phone calls from my basement and many other places that the smartphone cannot.

    I have never met anyone else with this setup.

    • @severien@lemmy.world
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      710 months ago

      the flip phone lets me make phone calls from my basement and many other places that the smartphone cannot.

      Why? The smartphone supports everything the flip phone does. Honest question.

        • @severien@lemmy.world
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          310 months ago

          Doesn’t seem very likely to me given that cheap feature phones likely use cheap older parts while flagship smartphones state of the art components.

          • Owl
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            36 months ago

            He didn’t say his flip phone was cheap

            • @severien@lemmy.world
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              210 months ago

              I don’t know what to tell you

              Well, you apparently don’t know the cause of his experience, so duh …

      • guyrocket
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        310 months ago

        Yes, I could. But that allows the phone company to be lazy about coverage and building their network. The primary reason I pay a monthly cell phone bill is for a good network.

        It also gets into security issues that are different from cellular network use.

        And what if my internet is down and I have an emergency?

        • AggressivelyPassive
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          110 months ago

          How often do you have an emergency that combines lost wifi and inability to leave the basement?