Originally posted by Don B. Cilly
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But, as fate would have it, I had to change from AT&T (uses GSM) to Sprint (uses CDMA). My Redmi won't work on Sprint. Sprint offered a Samsung GS10 for $660, 3X the Note 7. Now, both phones are running Android 9.0 Pie. That is about all the similarity there is between the phones. With the Note 7 my hands are not handcuffed. With the GS10 I feel like I am in an Apple or Microsoft prison. For example, the fingerprint on the Note 7 works like lightning, on the GS10 like molasses, if it works at all. The password on the Note 7 unlocks the instant you hit the last digit. On the GS10 you have to hit "OK" as well, then wait a second. On the Note 7 I can have several apps running at the same time and they share screen space. Not so with the GS10. The Note 7 phone and speaker system worked wonderfully and the recordings of my phone calls have both sides crystal clear. I can't get the GS10 to record the other side. Just bits and pieces of garble, if anything at all. There is so much more that makes the GS10 a very unfriendly Android phone.
All is not lost though I kept my Note 7 and installed Google Hangouts (Google Dialer) on it. So, I can make and record VOIP calls with it as long as I have an Internet connection. The only time it doesn't have an Internet connection is when I am out of range of my router and/or not in range of a public router, which isn't very often. As it turns out, GPS tracking doesn't depend on a phone service, so GPS maps while driving work very well. So, I carry both phones in my pocket and use the GS10 ONLY when I want to make or receive a phone call that can't come by VOIP.
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