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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
7mo
How old is your mobile phone?
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
7mo
I'm still rocking a 2020 era iPhone 12 mini. Runs iOS 26 just fine.

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html
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Common Sparrow @CommonSparrow@mindly.social
7mo
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Bought my original cell phone - (NOT a smart phone) - for $10 in 2007. Tracfone with minutes purchased as needed. When 2g stopped working, they sent me a new 3g dumbphone free. When 3g stopped working (Jan 2022), they sent a 4g dumbphone free. Both times, they tried to talk me into paying to "upgrade" to a smartphone instead, but I said nope, just the free replacement for my old phone is fine. So if you don't count the forced replacements, I'm using the same $10 phone I bought in 2007.
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Scuttlebutt 🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud
7mo
@CommonSparrow Stahp, you’re falling off the of the far end of the bell curve and making people question their life choices :)
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Ben Pfaff @blp@framapiaf.org
7mo
@CommonSparrow @scuttlebutt I do remember back many years ago when I got an extender for 3G (probably not the right term--a device that has a small radius 3G signal and plugged into your home Internet) I had to buy a new phone because my own phone was a dumb 2G one. I had asked the vendor about that but they said, "ha no one still has a 2G only phone."
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