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Stardate: 20210728.2003 | |
Location: SBUX | |
Input Device: Gemini PDA | |
Audio: v a p o r w a v e | |
Visual: Intersection traffic, white xmas lights on trees | |
Emotional State: Not sure, ok, annoyed, I guess? | |
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AT&T has me upset. They are sunsetting their 3G network soon and | |
sent me one of their throwaway phones to replace my current phone. | |
I did not want a replacement but they sent me one anyways. Now they | |
want to deactivate my SIM and activate the one they sent out with | |
the replacement. My phone is not old and I just started using it | |
a few months ago. It is a Unihertz Titan and it is a 4G phone, but | |
it is not on their mobile phone whitelist. I do not know why it is | |
not. Probably because it is not a phone they sell and is not running | |
their brand of spyware. | |
If I have to change out my phone again, I will not be happy. I | |
wonder if the Pinephone will work with AT&T. I'm not sure what the | |
current state of development is for this device. My essential needs | |
are voice, text, bluetooth, wifi and hotspot capabilities. Part of | |
me just wants to go back to a dumbphone, which I just stopped using | |
when I got the Titan. I still have that phone(Sonim XP5700), but it | |
is not on the AT&T whitelist[1] that I found on the intarwebz :( | |
This is not the first time that one of my mobiles became | |
inoperable due to provider upgrades. The Nokia N900 comes to mind. | |
That one stopped working after they sunsetted the GPRS/2.5G network. | |
That upgrade really upset me. I still have the device and it does | |
still works over wifi, but it is no longer part of my everyday carry. | |
If I do have to switch to a whitelisted device, I will probably end | |
up going back to a feature dumbphone. I just don't like the waste | |
and not being able to use a device that I want to use that is | |
technologically capable of running on their network but is not | |
allowed because of their damn whitelist. </annoyed> | |
[1]AT&T 3G buh-bye page | |
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