Text received 2 days ago (January 13):
Valued customer, we're providing you formal notice that T-Mobile is retiring the 3G network on 7/1/22. You'll need to replace your phone before 7/1/22 to continue service, which may include the ability to make 911 calls. My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S (not an S3 - an SGH-T959 running a really old version of Cyanogenmod) but I've been trying to buy an S3 to put Replicant on. I have tried twice. The first time, after a 3 month wait, I received the wrong phone from China. The second time I received an S3, but it wasn't a GT-I9300, it was a useless to Replicant SPH-L710. Not knowing the actual capabilities of the S3 wrt cell networks, I went looking. This review: https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9300_galaxy_s_iii-review-761.php says: Quad-band GSM and quad-band 3G support 21 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA support It seems pretty obvious that the first part is not going to be useable after 7/1/22, but will the S3 still be useable after that thanks to the second part? Will T-Mobile still support "Quad-band GSM" after 7/1/22? If the S3 is going to become totally useless after 7/1/22, what options remain for us replicant hopefuls after the 3G network goes dark? I understand that the GT-I9305 is still not working properly with replicant. I'm even considering a pine phone pro, but that's not yet available and is a totally different animal. https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/ Considering the end of the 3G network, what is the preferred phone for replicant now? Is Replicant going to be murdered by planned obsolescence? I'm so totally fed up with locked phones that I'm now considering spending amounts of money that would have seemed outlandish months ago, like for the pine phone pro. Totally disgusted by the phone software situation on modern phones. Augustine _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list Replicant@osuosl.org https://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
