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I used to lust after the latest flagship phones, and while the Galaxy S8 my work has just equipped me with is extremely nice, it doesn't really do anything new that I actually need. VoLTE and WiFi Calling are nice, but hardly something that would make me swap out a perfectly functioning phone.

My 2 year old Moto X Play does everything I need (Firefox, Messenger and Spotify, 90% of the time), and I only bought it because my old phone broke and the X Play had the longest battery life of any reasonably priced smartphone at the time.

When it eventually breaks, I'm just going to get a budget model. If I could get a dumbphone/featurephone with a week-long battery life, that could do Firefox, Messenger and Spotify in any reasonable fashion, I would jump on it instantly.



> I used to lust after the latest flagship phones, and while the Galaxy S8 my work has just equipped me with is extremely nice, it doesn't really do anything new that I actually need. VoLTE and WiFi Calling are nice, but hardly something that would make me swap out a perfectly functioning phone.

Also, not even remotely new with the S8; it was supported at least back to the Note 5 / S6 generation, possibly earlier.


S6 had it, my previous work phone was an S5, which is why I needed an upgrade, my department is handling the VoLTE rollout to our customers.

I would have been fine with an S6 or S7, but my company has standardized on the S8/S8+ (and iPhone X for some managers, because of course).




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