携帯電話
SH03E
A 2011 keitai with a propriatary port, it was a mess to work with for someone used to american phones. I loved it.
It was my first phone that wasn't a tiny little burner brick phone. I had been offered a working smart phone but as mentioned on my Calling fanpage, I didn't want one until I wanted a japanese flip phone. As such, I was ecstatic to have this. It only accepted MLD format ringtones, meaning my options were super limited. I had imense trouble getting pictures off and on this. Despite everything, I had fun with all the little features. I especially loved being able to decorate the menu selection screens with pictures and decorating the phone istelf with charms. For lackof other options it was mostly the TokiDoki brand Frenzies strap charms of their unicorns. I decided to give my phone a name, and ended up naming it Kiyomi after Kiyomi Takada, the "dump your girlfriend, Pick Me" sychophant TV persona from Death Note. I kept thinking Kiyomi and Naomi Misora had each other's names, so I meant to name it after a murdered FBI agent. Oh, well! In hindsight I don't remember why I chose that name, just that I did.
Sharp SHF31
This was my much needed upgrade from my SH03E. It uses USB and wouldn't require a fancy carging port or for me to directly charge the battery seperately. With WiFi capability, I could download and use apps. It also came with the option to download free ringtones and wallpapers from the Sharp website. Honestly, this was everything I wanted from a Keitai. It even had a hard cover that was clear. I could put stickers on the inside without sticking them to the phone itself and switch them out as I so desired. My charms changed as time went on. It's currently in the phone graveyard with a wooden Year of the Chicken charm, a Dead by Daylight totem rubber strap, a Q-Pot macaron strp and a ghost kitty. It has a minimum of stickers, having been tired of the look after seeing it on my last phone all day, every day. There were other color options but nothing I seriously entertained. Being an upgrade from Kiyomi, I named this one Takada.
KYF42
With the death of 3g cell phone service in the united states I was forced to leave behind my baby, my beautiful keitai. A more recent flip phone, made August 2021! 4g VoLTE compatible, and running android. Coming in black, white and light blue. It has a charm slot, so hurrah for small victories. The camera is pretty shit, I won't lie, and there is no flashlight but it's not awful. Current charms are a GuitarWolf phone strap, a generic purple butterfly I was gifted and a Plain Doll charm. It's also sporting a cute ACNL Muffy sticker I got at an artist alley. Having been in a Paradise Killer mood, I named my phone Neon Black Karma Sunset (N.B.K. Sunset for short). I regret not getting the bright blue version but, most of my stuff is black. Next time I won't coward out and I will get a different color!
Thinking about....
Thinking about the Digno. It's not any prettier than my current phone, but a backup in case my current breaks is always a good idea.
Also giving the Galaxy Z-Flip 5 a good hard look. I'm currently working with T-Mobile, which wants to be primarily 5G and leave 4G LTE by the wayside. It seems like a good idea to have a 5G phone as back up for my KYF42, but there are some problems with this one. It's a thousand dollars new, without the ability to put in an SD card for more storage. Most importantly it's a flexible OLED screen with a screen protector that seems pretty vunerable to chips and cracks from what I have seen posted about it online. If something hapens to it, you're at the mercy of your phone provider to decide if you are within the bound of your warranty or if you can kick rocks. Screen replacements, if you flat out crack the screen or break it, seem to be almost as expensive as the phone itself.
It also has no audio jack for headphones, which is a grave, grave sin in my eyes. If your phone can't funciton like a basic I-Pod, then what's the point? Making me buy an adapter is bullshit IMO.
The Bands
If you're trying to make sure a phone works with your provider's network, you need to know the bands of the phone and the bands the provider serves.
| The Bands |
|---|
| 5GUC (Ultra Capacity 5G) Band n41 (2.5 GHz) Band n258 (24 GHz) Band n260 (39 GHz) Band n261 (28 GHz) |
| Technology Frequencies 5GUC (Ultra Capacity 5G) Band n41 (2.5 GHz) Band n258 (24 GHz) Band n260 (39 GHz) Band n261 (28 GHz) |
| 5G (Extended Range 5G) Band n71 (600 MHz) |
| 4G LTE Band 2 (1900 MHz) Band 5 (850 MHz) Band 4 (1700/2100 MHz) Band 66 (Extension of band 4 on 1700/2100 MHz) |
| Extended Range 4G LTE Band 12 (700 MHz) Band 71 (600 MHz) |
| 2G Band 2 (1900 MHz) ◀Ignore this one |