Subj : Feature Phones
To   : All
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun May 29 2022 08:18:00

I'm looking for a phone for my daughter to take to camp, ostensibly just to 
call home and occasionally text. Don't want any social networks on it.

Although I could take an old iPhone and lock it down through the app store, 
I picked up a Nokia 6300 4g on a lark. It's a modern take on an old-school 
feature phone, with a couple of social network apps (Facebook and whatsapp). 
It does have Google Maps and Google text-to-speech, so you don't need to 
rely on predictive text input if you have a network available.

Talk time is around 7 hours, although I wished it had an MP3 player, as it 
has an SD card slot. It does have an FM receiver, and a couple of the AM 
news stations now have a mirror on FM frequencies now.

I'm thinking it'd be great for SHTF situations where you were displaced but 
services were still available - with a USB battery pack, you could stay in 
contact for weeks.


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