this post was submitted on 20 Dec 2025
34 points (100.0% liked)
chat
8538 readers
210 users here now
Chat is a text only community for casual conversation, please keep shitposting to the absolute minimum. This is intended to be a separate space from c/chapotraphouse or the daily megathread. Chat does this by being a long-form community where topics will remain from day to day unlike the megathread, and it is distinct from c/chapotraphouse in that we ask you to engage in this community in a genuine way. Please keep shitposting, bits, and irony to a minimum.
As with all communities posts need to abide by the code of conduct, additionally moderators will remove any posts or comments deemed to be inappropriate.
Thank you and happy chatting!
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Just one thing to caution with this if if they're in the US, then many Chinese phones you have to import and that are not sold domestically do not have all of the signal bands used by US carriers, so you can have something like no 5G and half strength 4G signals or almost no connectivity at all in the worst case. Last time I said this, someone thought I was saying Chinese phones are bad, but I use a OnePlus, so that's not it. A OnePlus 12R sold in the US is going to have different hardware than one sold in China. There's a few sites to check this on like 1, 2, or 3. This is less of a problem in Europe and India, but still worth checking.
In Australia, there's a solid chance they won't work at all because they won't support the frequencies used in Aus to make emergency calls, meaning the government will block them.
This has been fixed in the latest Xiaomi and Huawei flagships but budget models and smaller providers still have issues