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I wish I could get a 2G phone. 3G I'd settle for. All I want is email, Maps, Uber and a Camera. Everything else is just addicting time wasting behavior. I love
by rr808 4y ago
I wish I could get a 2G phone. 3G I'd settle for. All I want is email, Maps, Uber and a Camera. Everything else is just addicting time wasting behavior. I love when my plan runs out of fast data and puts me on that throttled level.
- satvikpendem 4y agoLight Phone exists, don't know how good it is.
- phantomathkg 4y agoBut email, map or uber use tons of data where 2G and 3G were not decided for? So you will still need a 4G, no?
- alvarezbjm-hn 4y agoemail: only for attachments, not for text map: preloaded maps were a thing before. So, no. uber: preloaded maps. No, again.
- Nursie 4y agoIn a lot of places there are no longer 2G networks.
- maven29 4y agoAndroid 13 has eBPF-based network throttling options in the developer options, which will give you a similar 128kbps experience without sacrificing battery life. This applies on all interfaces, including WLAN, with the affordance of being able to switch back without dropping flows. I wouldn't recommend it for WLAN from a total system capacity perspective, as throttling eats up air-time.
- rr808 4y agoThe point is I have no self control. If I could manually switch it I can't be trusted.
- hallway_monitor 4y agoUninstalling the apps helps somewhat. Facebook and Reddit have terrible mobile web experiences, which helps even more!
- brianwawok 4y agoThis was true until I discovered mbasic Facebook :(
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- dilyevsky 4y agoOh you can get one except us providers have turned off their 2g base stations
- krackers 4y agoIt's 3G that they've disabled, 2G/Edge still works and they're probably not going to actively tear it down since I recall it e doesn't use up any additional bandwidth (something about how 2G exists in the guard bands). That said I doubt they're going to pay to replace the infrastructure for it as it begins to fail.
- dilyevsky 4y agoNope, not just 3g. Both verizon and tmobile shut down their cdmaOne stations (along with cdma2000) last year and att I think a while before that.
- oefrha 4y agoLol, 2G for (2023) Uber? I don’t think you know what you’re talking about. I was once rate limited to 2G speeds due to a problem with the carrier, and Uber took like ten minutes to get past a blank screen.