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A phone that is a few years old doesn’t have the energy/battery requirements that new phones have because of a more memory hungry operating system that requires a beefier cheapest, more memory hungry cellular chipsets (5G), Google Services, etc.

And if a company can’t sell a phone profitable, it’s not a viable product.

And he admits that he hardly ever uses it.

And that phone will probably not work at all soon in the US if it doesn’t support VoLTE.



And what if none of what you are claiming is true?


Well it’s definitely true for his phone.




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