[u-u] Surplus Cellphone

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

> From: William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>

> Reading up on "WiFi calling" at Freedom Mobile site (I'm with them, too)
>     - you have to register, but it's free.  Is it correct?

1. you have to have an approved phone model.  No Chinese brands, as I 
understand it.  I use a Pixel 8.

2. (if I remember correctly!) you have to turn it on in your phone and in 
a Freedom control panel for your account.

3.  Xiaomi phones apparently work if you enter a magic code
<https://forums.redflagdeals.com/aliexpress-poco-m7-pro-5g-256-512gb-global-version-244-267-fs-2784674/#p40555140>

4.(anecdote) we have an old Pixel (3??) that my son got with Google Fi 
when he worked for Google in the US.  Google Fi is a proprietary cell 
phone service that would use WiFi.  This has firmware from Google Fi.  So: 
it is one of the first phones to support cellular service over WiFi but 
Freedom doesn't seem to support it.