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Without Google services your phone is a brick? You can use Apple services, Microsoft services, any number of other websites. People really like to dramatize the
by xtian 3y ago
Without Google services your phone is a brick? You can use Apple services, Microsoft services, any number of other websites. People really like to dramatize the GFW.
- smackeyacky 3y agoOn an android phone, 5 years ago, it turned into a brick when i stepped out of shenzhen airport. There is a surprising amount of chatty network stuff going on under the hood that stops working. I ended up using a vpn which fixed it. Even basic stuff like contacts no longer worked . Plus without gmail, you can't recover a password or in some cases authorise yourself on 3rd party services. It was a brick.
- xtian 3y agoWhen you stepped out of the airport and swapped in a domestic SIM?
- ThePowerOfFuet 3y agoProbably using local Wi-Fi.
- xtian 3y agoSo he stepped out of the airport and connected to WiFi? Why not use cellular data?