No reference to crappy phones in TWS — one ‘we are charmingly old-fashioned and can’t do modern tech’ reference when Moth says his phone is ‘only for texts and calls’ (so not a smartphone?) when Raynor’s is unable to understand how Twitter works, and has to ask their son, who advises how to follow people. The very first is apparently Bill Cole asking them for a ‘chat’ about this coder farm.
Oh, there is a reference to a ‘photographer’s dream view’ on the Iceland walk, and knowing that she ‘couldn’t possibly capture the scene through the broken lens of an old mobile phone’.
If you were being cynical, you could conclude that her phone appears perfectly efficient until it has to take a walk photo.
In Landlines, someone in the village has downloaded the OP map app onto Moth’s phone, but RW is skeptical, musing about no battery or reception. Lots of references to no reception, but the phone must be functional as they use it multiple times to arrange their van’s pick up, order stoves online, check hotel vacancies etc and on several occasions RW reads the news on hers. And Moth actually uses the OS app.
No idea how that correlates to contemporary photos on RW’s Instagram, though.