I have a Nokia 6.1. It's a very nice phone. 2 years of guaranteed security updates and absolutely ZERO crapware. It's still google (which kinda sucks) but by far better than most of the stupidity you get with Samsung/HTC/LG/Motorola.
Go for an Android One phone. For Android One Google is taking responsibility for security updates regardless of manufacturer support. This is ideal for low-cost phones since companies like Samsung will often stop shipping updates for the lower-end products. My moto E stopped getting security updates in 2016, even though it still had several years of life left in it. Never buying a phone from motorola again :-P -Ben On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 3:56 PM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Feb 2019, Johnathan Mantey wrote: > > > You have to be careful. Verizon is a CDMA carrier, not a GSM carrier. > > Verizon has Galaxy S series made specifically for them that are CDMA. > > Sounds like you are Verizon based, so only the CDMA phone I have has a > > shot of working for you. > > Johnathan, > > Reading the ARStechnica article to which Galen pointed taught me that the > phone I want is the Nokia 6.1. It is a GSM phone supported by "... AT&T, > T-Mobile, and a million AT&T and T-Mobile MVNOs, like Cricket, Straight > Talk, H2O Wireless, Ting, and a bunch of others." Verizon and Sprint don't > support it. (These two support only Motorola and Apple.) Since Verizon has > no particular loyalty to me, I've none for it. Cost is a big factor; I'm now > paying $80 and change per month for two phones. > > So, my question for all of you is to which carrier would you recommend I > switch? I assume that we can keep the same phone numbers with a new carrier > but I have no knowledge of any of them. > > What say you all? > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
