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What about Samsung a515F? Otherwise identical to A51. Seems to be some Latin American model (which I did not realize when I bought it). But it's new and works fine. I activated it about a year ago and should have been warned then. I knew nothing about this until November. I don't want a new phone e from tracfone. A) their phones are outdated garbage and B) my phone is almost new.

@Mothra67

3 times?

If your phone is not listed, AT&T won't allow it.

Unlocked phones that will work on AT&T now that 3-g is going away

At&t devices that will work on AT&T now that 3-g is going away

Sorry if I posted more than once. I could not find my original comment. It looked like my comment did not post.

I am now beginning to realize that the Microcenter -- which sold me this bogus counterfeit phone -- is the real villain here. I mean, I feel like, relatively speaking, I am on top of this stuff. I guarantee you, there are suckers out there dumber than me who still do not understand how they could buy a phone and have it be obsolete in a year, despite it seeming like a new model.

Yes, I did notice after I activated it that the temperatures were in celsius, and the keyboard had a tilda, but that did not bother me much. Little did I know that I was being ripped off.

I am so upset that I think there needs to be a (Edited per community guidelines) (Edited per community guidelines) in place against somebody. Personally, I do not know why they do not just whitelist this model. So what if it is from Latin America?

I am tempted to see if it will just work anyway after the deadline. IUf not, I am going to smash it with a hammer, box it up, and send it to Tracfone or AT&T.

Anyone who says that it is our choice to use a "dinosaur phone" is way off base. My phone was brand spanking new for a mid range item and you would have to have been an insider to know that this 3G takedown was happening. And even if you knew, we were misled into believing our devices were in fact 4G.

The whole thing stinks to high heaven and there really should be a (Edited per community guidelines) (Edited per community guidelines), offering to replace my $300 device with a $30 device and telling me I should just buy a new phone.

And I was doubly duped  because I activitated this phone about a year ago when it was "common knowledge" that it would be obsolete. This phone (a sneaky latin American version of an A51) was fobbed off on me. How on earth would anyone who does not spend all their time thinking about all this stuff be aware of this?

I say they should whitelist this device since it is almost identical (superior to) to an earlier model (the A50). Yes I am furious and I doubt I will ever shop Microcenter again. As far as the phones go, they all (Edited per community guidelines).

And yes, I know you probably don't care because you think you have us over a barrell. But I will complain long and loud.

It's not a counterfeit phone.  It was not made for the use market.

Well, it should not have been sold here if it was slated to stop working in a little over a year. It is actually a decent phone, but not if I cannot use it and basically have to chuck it in the garbage after light use. 

@Mothra67

I'm going to be blunt, not to be rude: if you are not tech Savvy enough to know what you are buying, then do not buy a phone on your own from a third-party. Someone who does not know the difference shoe to only buy a phone directly from the carrier or from Apple here in the USA.   

What difference would be detectable by anyone other than whoever built the thing. And yes you are rude because am a lot more knowledgeable than most people. So (Edited per community guidelines).

@Mothra67 You are is the same situation that some  tourists will be in when they arrive with similar phones without VoLTE HD voice. 

The $64K question is when are the underwhelming "similar" phones arriving? With 18 days left before February (the hopelessly vague description AT&T provided for the end of 3G), I have (a) not seen one or (b) received notice of when to expect it.

You may not get one.  They did not send them to everyone.

Thanks GLIMMERMAN76, but the AT&T letter sitting on my desk says they are sending one. Just ZERO details about when, and I had to beat it out of AT&T what substandard "similar" phone they intended to send.

@Mothra67   well I won't apologize for blunt again.   You in fact did not know what you were doing, or you woukd have bought a US model, by its model number.  

@guyshomenet2 

I would not wait for Att..  I would just go buy the phone you want.

@Mothra67 US Samsung models since the S5 have had the capability for HD Voice and VoLTE. Apple deployed an IOS update to enable my old iPhone 6 to have HD Voice and VOLTE. 

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/enable-hd-voice-iphone/