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u/emmeka · 5 pointsr/dumbphones

There's some 4G phones you've missed.

  • Sonim also has a newer flip phone available from AT&T and Sprint, the Sonim XP3, which is basically a spec'd down XP5s with an actual headphone jack in flip style.

  • There's an AT&T (and thus GSM-unlockeable) version of the Kyocera DuraXV, the DuraXE. It's basically the same phone as the DuraXV. I'm not sure if AT&T still offers it outside of business accounts, but you can buy them online pretty easy.

  • There's also the Coolpad Snap for T-Mobile, Sprint, Boost, and Virgin Mobile.

  • Consumer Cellular's Doro 7050 is also 4G LTE though it can do literally nothing with it besides VoLTE and MMS. It doesn't even have a web browser. But hey, threaded SMS/MMS!

  • There's various other incarnations of the Alcatel Go Flip/Cingular Flip 2 with LTE for various other prepaid carriers. Cricket Wireless calls it the Quickflip, Tracfone calls it the MyFlip. They're all the exact same phone as the Alcatel Go Flip offered by T-mobile, though.

  • There's the ZTE Cymbal Z320 which is sold under various names (like the Cymbal LTE, Cymbal-G, Cymbal Z - though confusingly not the Cymbal T, which is an Android phone) by various discount prepaid carriers. I'm not sure if this phone is even officially sold by any carrier anymore, but it's readily available on Amazon/Ebay, and you'll probably find it gathering dust in a Walmart aisle in some backwater town somewhere.

  • If you can get one unlocked, the LG Exalt LTE will actually work on AT&T or T-Mobile, since it actually does have the right 3G and 4G GSM bands despite being a Verizon CDMA phone... however, without a Verizon account you won't be able to use the cross-platform feature of its messaging app (which lets you text from a web app synced from your phone, if you want) if that's something of a selling point for you.

    Hope this helps.

    Edit: Something to note here is that these phones all fall into one of two categories, software-wise. They're either running an extremely crippled fork of AOSP (the Android core) with a few proprietary apps, a locked bootloader, and no support for Google Play Services, or they're running KaiOS, which is web app based linux OS forked from the old FirefoxOS. That's presently the only two ways it's possible to build a VoLTE capable dumbphone, none of the old java OS's can manage it. At the moment the only two KaiOS devices in the US are the Doro 7050 and the Alcatel Go Flip/Quickflip etc. Neither have full KaiOS functionality (or even the most recent version) but the Alcatel devices, depending on the model, may have functional ADB for app sideloading and there's an active community around homebrew apps for the European Nokia 8110, another KaiOS device.
u/sidthekid13 · 1 pointr/dumbphones

I have AT&T but there is basically an Evergreen equivalent for Verizon called the Intensity https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Intensity-SCH-U460-Black-Verizon/dp/B00AOB4CHM

As far as my phone- I can receive pics/vids and voicemail forwarded to me (though the images are small so I have to save to library to enlarge), I can receive group messages and respond but sometimes there is a glitch and I can't start my own group chat. Overall it's worked great and I'm really happy with it.