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I see no reason a cheap phone can't support data/rcs. My cheap nokia supports whatsapp. But I guess old cheap phones will be left out but I think no sms suppor
by msh 7y ago
I see no reason a cheap phone can't support data/rcs. My cheap nokia supports whatsapp.
But I guess old cheap phones will be left out but I think no sms support will be far in the future, especially if Apple won't support it.
- xbmcuser 7y agoAround here 2g phones have stopped working people were informed 2-3 years before it being implemented that 2g phones will no longer work. So sms being killed off is not out of the question. Majority of the people in asia got mobile phones in smartphone era where they already had a WhatsApp of similar so sms is not as big a thing as it is in North America.
- jolmg 7y agoIn my corner of the world at least, small $20 brickphones can be bought at practically every corner convenience store. I'm pretty sure they don't have Whatsapp. They definitely don't run android, at least.
- msh 7y agoYou can get semi smart phones with data and whatsapp for as low as 17$. See https://www.androidauthority.com/kaios-phone-review-979286/ https://www.androidauthority.com/kaios-phone-review-979286/