| zxmpi | my dumb nokia phone crashed... that's the first time since i bought it that that has happene... weird... | 11:22 |
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| daftykins | :O | 11:47 |
| daftykins | total freeze up of the UI? | 11:48 |
| zxmpi | locked up and a low buzz for a second. then non responsive to any keypress. just popped the battery for 2 seconds and rebooted. no data loss. | 11:56 |
| zxmpi | just have to hope it doesn't happen again | 11:56 |
| zxmpi | mind, they did just release a new nokia dumbphone... https://www.phonearena.com/news/nokia-6310-2021-version_id133884 | 11:58 |
| daftykins | nice | 12:01 |
| daftykins | hmm let's see what radio tech it employs given the talk of switching off 2G and 3G | 12:01 |
| daftykins | not a word | 12:02 |
| zxmpi | i think it's called 2.5g in the 3310 which seems to be a 3g phone limited to 2g speeds iirc | 12:02 |
| zxmpi | the 4yo battery in the 3310 though is getting a bit knackered. after 2 days use battery drops to 90% | 12:04 |
| daftykins | ooh my | 12:05 |
| daftykins | https://www.publictechnology.net/articles/news/minister-pledges-%E2%80%98clear-roadmap%E2%80%99-scaling-back-2g-and-3g-networks | 12:05 |
| zxmpi | i use mobile data 1-2 times a year. 2g was fast enough for me. 0 interest in super duper fast speeds | 12:13 |
| daftykins | pretty sure the meaning is the entire platform to allow dumbphones to connect for calls, SMS, or anything | 12:14 |
| zxmpi | i remember the bidding war for 4g and the extreme lack of interest when it was released leaving the companies owing a lot of money for something none really wanted | 12:16 |
| zxmpi | and 5g has the nutters burning down phone masts | 12:18 |
| daftykins | scary how much dumb there is in the world | 12:20 |
| zxmpi | thank goodness the mask mandates and vaccine push to stop people dying has redirected their limited attention elsewhere | 12:37 |
| daftykins | heh | 12:38 |
| penguin42 | anyone know of a site actually with speed maps for 3/4/5g ? | 12:43 |
| daftykins | ofcom has 'em right? | 12:45 |
| daftykins | https://checker.ofcom.org.uk/ | 12:46 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: That gives me 'availability' of 4G, but doesn't give speeds, or 5G | 12:47 |
| daftykins | oh right, yeah good luck with that :D | 12:47 |
| * penguin42 is curious what's avialable faster on mobile; giffgaff and 3G only give me about 3-4MBps | 12:48 | |
| penguin42 | sorry | 12:48 |
| penguin42 | giffgaff and 3 | 12:48 |
| daftykins | probably on a capped plan | 12:50 |
| daftykins | oh MB isn't as bad as i was thinking | 12:51 |
| penguin42 | no, it's b | 12:51 |
| penguin42 | daftykins: does giffgaff cap like that? | 12:51 |
| daftykins | not sure, but i've noticed a trend for low scale plans lately in my local telcos to have really paltry speed caps, so could be | 12:53 |
| penguin42 | seems silly when for giffgaff I'm paying for a goodybag of '10GB' for a month to slow my access to that pot | 12:54 |
| daftykins | seems they claim not to | 12:58 |
| m0nkey_ | Heh, sounds much unlike how Canada's cell networks operate. | 13:54 |
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