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Nokia 3310 vs flip phone for my emergency kit, I made the wrong call
Last winter my car battery died on Route 9 in the middle of nowhere and my smartphone had zero signal. I had to walk half a mile to a gas station with a payphone. That got me thinking about keeping a spare old phone in the glovebox, so I grabbed my retired Nokia 3310 and my old Motorola Razr to test which one held a charge better after sitting for 6 months. The Nokia won easily, battery still showed full bars while the Razr was totally dead. But then I realized the Nokia can't do 911 texting and the charging port is a weird barrel plug, so now I'm debating if I should just buy a $30 dumb phone with USB-C instead. Has anyone else gone down this rabbit hole trying to build a reliable backup phone setup?
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calebc404d ago
Man, that Route 9 story gave me chills because I did the exact same thing last year with a dead phone in a rural area. It's crazy how we never think about this stuff until we're actually stuck. Testing your old phones for six months of battery life is super smart though, most people would've just grabbed whichever one looked tougher and called it a day. And yeah, that barrel plug on the Nokia is a real pain, good luck finding a car charger for that thing these days. I totally get the rabbit hole feeling too, you start with one simple backup idea and end up researching SIM cards and battery tech for a week straight.
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