Your 3G Will Be Dead as a …

I spent much of my Saturday morning trying to figure out if my current smartphone will work in 2022. As I hope you know already, 3G is going away in 2022. The exact date depends on your carrier. This is to make room for the exalted, brand new 5G, which will do everything except wash your feet for you. So your 3g phones and some of your 4G phones will be dead as a dodo.

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There’s a reason we don’t have any photographs of them

I have an old Galaxy phone. Is it the S7, S8, or S9? No, those were top Galaxy phones for their time. I don’t need all the nice features, so I bought a bottom level J7. Never heard of it? Exactly.

So I assumed it was a 3G phone. I spent some time trying to find cheap 4G phones, but they tend to be used, or ever worse, refurbished. Then a very good article clued me in that if the phone has LTE in the upper right corner of the screen, it will be okay for 2022. Sure enough, my phone has those letters. After some triple checking of this, I found out my phone is 4G LTE. It’s safe.

All this did not leave me in the mood for writing. But as we find out in Dune, mood should not matter. For copyright reasons I won’t post a link here, but look up the words “dune shield practice” in some video sharing site, and see the lesson there.

Spice, the Final Frontier—Comment on Dune

This is not a negative blog, so all I’ll say about the new Dune movie is that I had a hard time liking the main character—Paul Atreides/ Muad'Dib/ the cuisinart-hat-and-coat-rack. Yes, that means I’m one of those people who liked the 1984 version better. I’ve been told to think of that one as opera—opera without singing.

If you have a chance, check out the Sci Fi Channel’s 2000 miniseries Frank Herbert’s Dune. It’s supposed to be more accurate to the novel than the 1984 movie, though it was woefully underfunded for the battle against House Atreides. It would be more informative to compare this miniseries with the current movie.

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