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What to do with an Android spare smartphone (no sim card)?

Turns out Australia is removing 3G support nationwide and that means I have to upgrade. I’ve had my phone for at least 4 years but it runs well, I wasn’t planning on upgrading for at least another year.

I want to keep using it, but I’m not too tech oriented so my thinking has been, " I can play music with it, some games, videos"…And that’s fine. But perhaps some of you guys have more creative ideas? Curious as to what would you recommend.

desktop_user ,

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B0rax ,

Dropping links without any context or explanation is not a good contribution. Especially if it is not clear what the background of OP is, so explaining how to run docker on Android is not something that helps most people.

rbn ,

In case you own a lot of devices with remotes, you might transform it into a universal remote with an USB C IR dongle. Wouldn’t be my first choice as you’d still need to recharge it so often but I read of such projects.

Alternatively, you could give it to children for gaming and watching videos. Children are anyway mostly on WiFi and if you equip it with some emulators and ROMs they’ll have tons of funny games without all of these toxic in-app purchases, ads and casino mechanisms.

wesker , (edited )
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I use a Pixel 6a 4a I had laying around as a dedicated Discord device, paired with a bluetooth headset. Now I can chat with the lads while around the house doing chores.

MrVilliam ,

Haha, brilliant. I’m still running my 5a, so that sounds kinda crazy to me.

wesker ,
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Oops, I mean 4a, sorry.

AchtungDrempels ,

What have you replaced it with? I still have my 4a and kind of dread the day i will have to replace it.

wesker ,
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I went with the 7a, because the form factor isn’t too much larger and it has wireless charging. And of course, it can be flashed with GrapheneOS.

i_stole_ur_taco ,

The most common thing I’ve seen are projects where it acts like a screen or control panel on the wall. Something that’s a fixture or art project.

You don’t need it for anything like music or games - your new phone will be more convenient and run those things better anyway.

A friend of mine stuck an old tablet on the wall and connected it via Bluetooth to his keg system. It gave him a permanent status readout on his beer temperature and how much was left in each keg. It just had a power cable plugged in all the time so it didn’t need to be charged.

Mothra OP ,

Oh that’s cool, I like that with the beer. Unfortunately I don’t brew… Or have any other setup that could use a dedicated screen.

I also think I’ll end up playing media more with the new one, but I keeping some of my CD rips and most watched/recurrent videos stored locally on my old phone would be useful for whenever YouTube messes up everything ( as it is doing right now ).

dessalines ,

Really good idea, as long as it can stay plugged in.

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