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D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Apr 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>> Do it! I haven't had a smartphone for about 5 years or so and I love it!
>>> The highest price I pay is not being able to get ?ber taxis so I pay about
>>> 3x the price with a regular taxi
>>
>> I never started using a smartphone, and I recently ran into my
> 
> You are very strong with the force! Much respect.
> 
>> first financial disadvantage resulting from that. I got a
>> Mastercard gift card as part of a promotion, which I'd made a
>> deliberate effort to obtain, and it turns out I need a smartphone
>> app to activate it. Old forum threads suggest that there used to be
>> a way to do it on their mastercardgift.com.au website, but that
>> seems to have gone because of course everyone has a smartphone now.
>>
>> To be fair, so far I've only established that it can't be used
>> online without setting it up in the app, I still need to find an
>> appropriate time and place to try using it in-store.
> 
> Well, if you won it as a reward, then I'm sure you can just ask your 
> company to add it to your salary? The card they can just reuse the next 
> time someone does something good. =)

Oh not that sort of "promotion", I mean the reward was for not
buying someone else's product. :)

Actually it was a bribe to make me switch away from a service that
the provider wanted to discontinue, onto one which will cost me
more than the gift card's value in the long run of course. Actually
in my case it was a reward for dragging my heels for as long as I
possibly could, ignoring previous warnings if impending
discontinuation. I can hope that a similar thing will happen with
the 3G turn-off, but it probably won't with the cheap telcos at
least.

>> But I'm still sticking to dumb phones. Only I stuffed up trying to
>> find a cheap 4G one with good reception - it won't talk to the
>> telco I use. Previous network-locked phones didn't care whether the
>> network they were locked to was accessed via an account with a
>> reseller using that phone network, but apparantly they've been
>> silently shifting the goalposts.
> 
> I've had a nokia 220 4g and a nokia 110 4g and both work great with 3g and 
> 4g. Actually I turn off the 4g to save on battery. But maybe you tried 
> those already?

I haven't tried those but at the moment I'm comparing reception
between a Nokia 2660 Flip and an Alcatel 3080T, the latter being
the network-locked one but I can buy them unlocked from Ebay.

The Alcatel claims to have two more reception bars than the Nokia
most of the time, but I think its bars might be deceptively scaled.

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    Re: Disabling answering the phone. D <nospam@example.net> - 2024-04-13 11:44 +0200
      Re: Disabling answering the phone. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-04-14 09:27 +1000
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