Comment on The retro Nokia phone everyone owned 25 years ago will get a reboot soon – and yes, it has Snake

Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you’re in a country where GSM is native it’s quite likely that 2G is still available. 3G probably got shut down in the meantime but 2G doesn’t need much spectrum and is kept as a baseline compatibility protocol. It’s also perfectly sufficient for voice calls. Internet is… tolerable if all you’re doing is browsing wikipedia and doing email. It’s easily double as fast as a 56k modem what are you complaining about.

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If possible, bookmark 68k.news and frogfind.com on those phones.

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ha! If only. They at most had WAP browsers and noone was using them because you paid like five bucks per transferred byte.

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      • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If we’re referring to such old phones, the only WAP site I know is the test from Nostalgia Nerd. From this video [YouTube]

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  • unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah my us robotics 28k modem… it sang a sweet song to prepare me for the bloodshed of TF and Painkeep.

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• LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To call someone you need to have friends. Who needs friends when you have snake?

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• thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve still got a 3310 in a drawer, it still turns on, and if I had a SIM card for it would be fully working as the UK still operates a 2G network (for now at least).

  There’s even removable fascia plates still for sale on eBay.

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• RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But do you have a fitting charger?

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  • Zehzin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hundreds in a box somewhere

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    • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      dads everywhere

      I fucking knew it

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  • gaael@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What do you need a charger for? We’ll all be dead long before the battery is done /j

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    • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was really nice to just charge like once a week though…

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      • ares35@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        my old phones (going back all the way to the 'real' nokias) went a full month between charges. the last two with 4g volte suck so much power, it is every 2-3 days now, including my current hmd-made nokia with same capacity battery as what's stated in the article for the 'new' one.

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