[00:13] <bdju> I can't imagine the OS matters. You can put a SIM in a laptop to get online even.
[00:22] <Hail_Satan> so, as someone who knows nothing, I can buy any Linux phone verified to be good in 2020 (ie, a recently made one) and EXPECT Verizon and AT&T to support it?
[00:22] <Hail_Satan> I know that carriers have "discontinued" lists, I'm not asking about that category tho
[02:19] <bdju> AT&T should be fine, GSM is used everywhere. I would verify some of the individual bands the phone uses are available in your country. Verizon might be trickier, I may have heard they have a whitelist of devices, also they're CDMA which is not as friendly.
[02:20] <bdju> Similarly to AT&T, any other GSM network, such as T-Mobile (or something that uses the towers of one of the former two networks) should work fine.
[02:21] <bdju> Verizon might be fine, I just don't know myself, and I would be at least a little worried if you were planning to go with them. Do they use SIM cards yet?
[02:22] <bdju> When I get a new phone (I'm on AT&T) I can just move over my SIM and it works fine. I don't have to go talk to anyone, they don't care what phone I have. I believe all GSM networks should work this way.
[02:34] <Hail_Satan> interesting, thanks