T-Mobile Wi-Fi calling just got killed for these phones

T-Mobile Wi-Fi calling only got killed for these phones

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The outset version of Wi-Fi Calling may have been revolutionary when information technology debuted six years ago. But these days, the feature is pretty archaic, peculiarly with Wi-Fi Calling 2.0 available. So it'due south no surprise that T-Mobile will pull the plug on Wi-Fi Calling 1.0 support adjacent month — a motion that will affect older smartphones.

T-Mobile announced the decision on its website, where it detailed plans to end support for Wi-Fi Calling 1.0 later on May 31. The motion won't impact phones that support Wi-Fi Calling ii.0, nor will information technology hinder the ability to admission information over Wi-Fi. Just it does hateful devices that only support the i.0 version of Wi-Fi Calling won't exist able to utilise the feature going forward.

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The skillful news is that the list of impacted phones is adequately narrow and largely features some pretty ancient handsets. These are the models that volition be afflicted by the finish of Wi-Fi Calling 1.0 support, according to T-Mobile:

Alcatel OneTouch Popular Astro
Alcatel Tearing two
LG Optimus L70
LG Optimus L90
Microsoft Lumia 640
Google Nexus half-dozen
Samsung Galaxy Note 4
Samsung Milky way S5
Samsung Galaxy S4
Samsung Galaxy S 3 LTE
Samsung Galaxy Showroom
Samsung Milky way Avant
ZTE Obsidian

If you're notwithstanding holding on to any of those devices and have hopes of using Wi-Fi Calling going forward, you're going to have to upgrade. (You'll yet exist able to make phone calls over cellular, text and access the internet.) Fortunately, you've got a lot of options to upgrade, whether y'all're looking for the best 5G phones that have reward of the latest cellular connectivity or you're a upkeep-minded shopper on the sentinel for the best cheap phones.

Wi-Fi Calling lets you make telephone calls over a Wi-Fi connection; it's a good culling when you're somewhere that has a weak cellular signal — or none at all. In other words, information technology's the kind of feature that's good to take available, and so if you've got a phone that's about to lose access when Wi-Fi Calling 1.0 comes to an end, give serious idea to upgrading your handset.

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Brittany Vincent has been covering video games and tech for over 13 years for publications including Tom's Guide, MTV, Rolling Rock, CNN, Popular Scientific discipline, Playboy, IGN, GamesRadar, Polygon, Kotaku, Maxim, and more. She's too appeared equally a panelist at video game conventions like PAX East and PAX Westward and has coordinated social media for companies similar CNET. When she's not writing or gaming, she'southward looking for the adjacent smashing visual novel in the vein of Saya no Uta. You can follow her on Twitter @MolotovCupcake.