Turns out Australia is removing 3G support nationwide and that means I have to upgrade. I've had my phone for at least 4 years but it runs well, I wasn't planning on upgrading for at least another year.
I want to keep using it, but I'm not too tech oriented so my thinking has been, " I can play music with it, some games, videos"...And that's fine. But perhaps some of you guys have more creative ideas? Curious as to what would you recommend.
What's the exact phone model? I'd be really surprised such a phone wouldn't support LTE, 5G was about to come out 4 years ago. Even the OG pixel should support LTE. Unless your issue is lack of VoLTE support, which sometimes can be remediated with root or custom roms. Although I find the Internet portion to be more useful anyway, as you can just route the calls over regular VoIP and use Signal or Matrix or Discord or whatever.
Unless it's a Samsung, then you're kind of SoL into the fix by modding department, you're stuck with what regular Android apps can do.
Motorola g8. Lack of VoLTE indeed. I wouldn't want to rely on my internet connection, Australia is famous for its subpar internet and I've been in many places where coverage is very patchy.