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12 points

You mean like a 20 year old one? Would it even work?

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Yeah. It’d probably still have charge too.

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I found one in the back of a drawer a few weeks ago, it turned on straight away. I didn’t have the right size SIM card to try and use it fully sadly.

Come the apocalypse there will just be cockroaches and old Nokias.

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5 points

You cold dredge one up from the bottom of the ocean and it would still pick up a signal.

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2 points

Don’t forget the twinkies!

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3 points

Wasn’t it like 2g cellular?

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Many operators around the word are ditching 3g but still keeping 2g.
It is main/backup connection in so many iot and older automation devices that it won’t be going away anytime soon.
And yes, both my 2110 and 3310 I alternate in my cars glove compartment can still call emergency services number without sim card.

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3 points

I mean how many g’s are strictly necessary

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12 points

Well it is a Nokia so…

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19 points

The device itself is not the concern as much as the network connectivity

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Depending on where they are in the world 2G networks might still be active. In Europe they’re still on for a few more years in most countries.

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No. I don’t know of anywhere that a 2G network is still available to use. Some still operate it for emergency calls but that’s it.

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You can deploy your own 2g base station with openbts and some cheap software-defined radio hardware. Don’t crank up the signal though so you won’t run afoul with the government agencies that regulate radio spectrum in your country.

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It’s anybody’s guess but if the battery hasn’t crapped out it probably would.

I have a bunch of old Nokia’s whose batteries puffed up and I can’t use them anymore but I also have some that are still ok.

Oh and they’d have to also find the charger for it.

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