#cellphones with an MEID and no EID don’t have #eSIM support.
on 02026-05-01#MVNO #Cricket has a CSV file of the “broadband facts” for their service plans for #cellphones. #tourism
on 02026-05-01#MVNO #Cricket has a signup page for getting physical SIMs. They have a 3-month unlimited plan for US$40 a month plus US$45 up front, but I think that may be online-only. Unlimited data, no hotspot, unlimited calls and texts, no “Auto Pay”. #cellphones #tourism
on 02026-05-01#MVNO #Cricket Wireless supports physical SIMs (pSIMs) but someone got refused a pSIM because their phone supported an #eSIM. #cellphones #tourism
on 02026-05-01#USA #MVNO list for #tourism #cellphones.
on 02026-04-30report that #DoorDash drivers cannot run their "Dasher" app on #cellphones with unlocked bootloaders, for example running #LineageOS.
on 02026-04-30lots of discussion of #degoogling #cellphones with #GrapheneOS from last week
on 02026-02-24Howto for #degoogling #cellphones with #GrapheneOS
on 02026-02-24discussion of the "Cape" #privacy focused #MVNO for #cellphones in #USA.
on 02026-02-24another complaint about #US-Mobile bait-and-switching their service’s usage for #cellphones in RVs in #USA #tourism.
on 02026-01-15a complaint about getting banned from #US-Mobile #cellphones #USA #tourism
on 02026-01-15Cricket Wireless is a prepaid brand of AT&T Wireless, while US Mobile is “a newer prepaid service that resells all three of the nationwide networks”, that is, a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). #USA #cellphones #tourism
on 02026-01-15a prepaid #USA #cellphones comparison site; the three listed as “cost per month: 0” are Helium, Roamless, and TextNow. Cricket is apparently US$25/month. But there are a lot of carriers that are under US$10/monthly. #tourism
on 02026-01-15there’s a subreddit for prepaid #USA #cellphones. A lot of people complaining about getting banned from US Mobile, but it’s not clear if that’s because US Mobile is uniquely terrible or uniquely popular.
on 02026-01-15text #editors on #multitouch #cellphones have terrible #UX problems with finger occlusion, constant user error, undiscoverable UI, etc. Based on his research on "Eloquent". “Android and iOS share a common problem: they copied desktop text editing conventions, but without a menu bar or mouse. This forced them to overload the tap gesture with a wide range of actions: placing the cursor, moving it, selecting text, and invoking a pop-up menu. This results in an overly complicated and ambiguous mess-o-taps, leading to a variety of user errors.” #toread
on 02025-12-26#tutorial on #hoarding old #cellphones and installing #PostmarketOS to use them as web servers. #CC BY-NC-SA
on 02025-11-25#MaruOS is apparently a desktop Linux thing for #Android phones? So you can plug in a Bluetooth keyboard and HDMI monitor. But only supports five models of #cellphones
on 02025-07-30#video about using an FT232R UART/USB converter chip with USB OTG to get some GPIOs out of an #cellphones. #hoarding #electronics #toread
on 02024-09-23#video from November on #Huawei’s new #HiSilicon Mate60 #cellphones and #China/#USA #politics. “If those US [export] controls had been successful, then a smartphone as powerful as this should not be possible without importing key components” because they used 7nm photolithography.
on 02024-09-10#Cesar #video about #hoarding #cellphones #electronics #hardware
on 02024-09-10Cox Media Group #spyware called "Active Listening" using #voice-recognition on #cellphones invades users’ #security by sending keywords from their conversations to Fecebutt and Google
on 02024-09-07