Google has quietly deprecated the Messages and Dialer apps in AOSP, and it could have ramifications for upstart brands and custom ROM fans.

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    1 year ago

    Can they at least handle texting? A lot of services require SMS-based 2FA (insecure as it is) these days, so a phone that can’t receive texts is a complete non-starter.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know that off-the-top-of-my-head, but I would guess that with normal voice service the modem may well also handle texts, as at least historically, I believe the SMSes went over space in some sort of command channel separate from the per-active-phone timeslice reserved for voice.

      However, you could hypothetically get SMS service and relay that to a your laptop-phone over IP from some service that provides VoIP service. With SMSes, unlike with voice, the latency shouldn’t really matter.