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LoFone E Ink smartphone offers WhatsApp, Spotify and navigation despite focus on minimalism - NotebookCheck.net News (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Even in USA nobody ever SMS me. Messenger and insta are primary with WhatsApp and signal sometimes being relevant and wechat for the Chinese community.

[–] nexas_XIII@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Crazy, most people use SMS with Messenger as the go to for big groups for me (in USA). No one I know uses WhatsApp

[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Seems weird to me to use an unencrypted ancient format

[–] nexas_XIII@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

I'm just giving anecdotal evidence, just like you gave 🤷‍♂️ I'm not promoting one way of communicating vs another.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Unencrypted is not the thing that bothers me - after all, Telegram is so popular, so not like most people even care. What bothers me is that you still need to pay for each one! You have to edit the texts to fit into a tiny arbitrary character restriction or else you's be charged for a second message! Why is data do relatively cheap, but those messages are still overpriced?

[–] wingsfortheirsmiles@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

Mobile plans as standard here (in the UK) offer SMS for free, can't remember when they used to routinely charge tbh. But I think I only text my dad as he's very old school, everyone else is Signal/WhatsApp/Telegram

[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Huh I haven't met anyone on telegram yet. Agreed if you somehow didn't have infinite SMS in your plan you are taking an L

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago

Unlimited SMS here are rare, and my carrier in particular does not have them at least on the lower-end plans. I rarely notice though.

Telegram is popular here, especially among youth - my university groupchats are there, for example. Whatsapp is still probably bigger though.

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

It's the same for me in Australia. Millenials and older use Messenger or SMS while Gen Z and younger use Instagram or Snapchat.