which seems to be a very silly thing to do, given that they've gone end of life.
But I thought I had a reason - overseas travel.
For the last four or so years we've used an old Nokia Asha 302, and while it's done excellently as a travel phone, long battery life, good for texting hotels and taxis, it's clearly reached the end of its life.
Increasingly one needs to have something that runs apps for Uber, Grab, some local service you've not heard of yet etc etc.
And that's the rub.
With the windows phone going end of life, you can guarantee that increasingly there won't be a windows phone version of that crucial travel app.
Which is a shame, because (a) you can get a pretty well specified phone for under a hundred bucks, and (b) you don't need to tie it to your Google or Apple account.
But as I said, the need for access to a mainstream software platform kills that dead, so I guess it's a cheap no name android phone and a dummy google account ...
But I thought I had a reason - overseas travel.
For the last four or so years we've used an old Nokia Asha 302, and while it's done excellently as a travel phone, long battery life, good for texting hotels and taxis, it's clearly reached the end of its life.
Increasingly one needs to have something that runs apps for Uber, Grab, some local service you've not heard of yet etc etc.
And that's the rub.
With the windows phone going end of life, you can guarantee that increasingly there won't be a windows phone version of that crucial travel app.
Which is a shame, because (a) you can get a pretty well specified phone for under a hundred bucks, and (b) you don't need to tie it to your Google or Apple account.
But as I said, the need for access to a mainstream software platform kills that dead, so I guess it's a cheap no name android phone and a dummy google account ...
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