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Verizon is sending free 4G flip phones to customers who haven’t moved on from 3G

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The carrier’s 3G network is due to go offline at the end of 2022

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After a few delays, Verizon seems poised to actually follow through on shutting down its 3G CDMA network at the end of this year. But the carrier is still contending with a subset of customers who sat out the 4G LTE era and haven’t yet upgraded their 3G phones. So, as 2022 rolls onward, Verizon is sending those wireless subscribers a free extremely basic flip phone to prevent them from losing connectivity when the 3G network goes offline.

According to its website, Verizon will provide customers with one of three phones: the Orbic Journey V, TCL’s Flip Pro, or the Nokia 2720 V Flip. The retail value for each of those devices is under $100: the Orbic is $99.99, with the other two running $79.99.

Verizon says customers can opt out of the free 4G LTE flip phone by calling customer service and saying they’d like to “decline the free phone for CDMA sunset.” All three have received overwhelmingly negative reviews on Verizon’s website, with the highest averaging two stars. These are very basic phones, after all. The company also notes that customers can exchange the free phone for something else after receiving it. Phones will automatically be activated 30 days after being sent out if customers fail to do so on their own.

Other US carriers have taken similar steps to prevent customers on older devices from being left in the cold after a network transition. Last year, AT&T sent Samsung smartphones to some subscribers with 3G devices. Sprint’s LTE network was switched off just days ago, allowing those resources to be better used by T-Mobile. The latter company shut down its 3G UMTS network on July 1st, saying “across the industry, wireless companies are working to retire older network technologies as part of an important progression that will greatly enhance the performance of 4G and 5G.”

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We have already written about the certification of this phone, but now it is officially presented and is already being sold in the US by Verizon.
In terms of security and overall design, the smartphone has not changed much. This is the same brutal black clamshell with a transreflective external display that does not fade in the sun.

However, inside the smartphone has changed quite a lot compared to the previous generation. The main difference is Android (presumably 5.1 or 6.0) on board, which, although it doesn’t look like Android at all, is still one. The absence of Google Play and all Google services, however, greatly limits the ability to install third-party applications, but nothing will interfere with direct hands. In this regard, the smartphone is very similar to its “brother” DuraXE from AT & T – it also has the same stripped-down Android, which does not involve user intervention in the system, but installing applications there is possible, although not without dancing with the adb tambourine.

Kyocera DuraXE

New for Verizon has increased memory (2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage versus 1GB / 8GB for DuraXE) and the absence of the “recent applications” button, otherwise it repeats the device from AT&T almost completely – the same quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 210, the same 1500 mAh battery and the same main screen with a resolution of 240 * 320 and a diagonal of 2. 6 inches. Of course, the technical specifications for 2017 are terrible, but given that no one is positioning it as a smartphone, then this is forgivable. At the very least, make a Russian locale, install some more suitable navigator (built-in from Verizon, most likely, will not work outside the US) and he will be able to synchronize contacts with the cloud. And there is no point in demanding more from such a specific device.

Burning DuraXE. Naturally, such a test did not affect the performance of the smartphone.

The choice of such a software platform is explained by the fact that it is much easier for a manufacturer to take a ready-made solution based on Android and fit it to a non-touch mode of interaction than to fit ancient proprietary platforms to LTE, VoLTE and XLTE standards (Verizon technology). Also, the smartphone base allows you to use positioning systems with greater accuracy, use the Internet and distribute it via Wi-Fi.

The issue of sharing the Internet via wi-fi is still open – Verizon quite rarely blocks its devices for use within the network, but it usually limits the distribution of the Internet from under another network. And if on popular smartphones of the operator such a problem is solved by a simple flashing, then with this device the chance that someone will create custom firmware tends to zero. But for sure it will be possible to install a third-party program for wi-fi tethering, so all is not lost.
For some reason, Kyocera abandoned the proprietary Smart Sonic Receiver technology in this phone, where the screen itself acts as a speaker. Moreover, it was in DuraXV, but it is no longer in DuraXE for AT&T.

The device is already available for purchase from Verizon for $264. The version without a camera for employees of closed enterprises has not gone anywhere – the DuraXV LTE Non Camera version is available for purchase at the same price (oddly enough).

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