• @paddirn
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    810 months ago

    I could see them doing that just because they were trying to conserve battery power, however, if they were still getting a signal, couldn’t they have still used their map, and thus, weren’t really lost? Or was this in the Dark Ages, before smartphones guided us to the light?

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      110 months ago

      There’s a pretty good chance they only had 2G. And some carriers who still have 2G have decided to shut down GPRS service, so no internet access.