I had a biz partner who is a centimillionaire. He has an iPhone for data, and a flip-phone for calls.
Comment on Gen Z is ditching iPhones for $100 'feature phones,' and the numbers don't lie
coffinwood@feddit.de 1 year agoIt’s directly in the headline: Gen Z is ditching the iPhone. That’s incorrect in two ways: A) it’s at best one in fifty people buying aforementioned feature phones and B) they don’t even know if all buyers replace their existing phone or buy it as an additional handset.
ChrisLicht@lemm.ee 1 year ago
guyrocket@kbin.social 1 year ago
I will now tell people I have a millionaire's phone plan.
guyrocket@kbin.social 1 year 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 1 year ago
Why? The smartphone supports everything the flip phone does. Honest question.
raef@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I guess the radio is a bit more efficient
severien@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
coffinwood@feddit.de 1 year ago
That’s what I mean.
kirklennon@kbin.social 1 year ago
Can you not use Wi-Fi Calling?
guyrocket@kbin.social 1 year 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?