This is good to hear; I'm jumping T-Mobile's ship and about to go Google Fi (that thread and Monbo's championing of the service is very helpful). The prices weren't this low while I've been looking but managed to get a like new 6 with 64GB via Ebay that also includes Motocare through April 2017 for $270 bucks last week. [The owner upgraded after one month from 6 to 6P].
Has there been a real clear cut winner yet between Apple and Samsung?
Forget that then, I'm not waiting until September. What makes you prefer Android so much over iPhone? I do think Google play is a million times better than iTunes
Thanks, but I'm pretty much either going with Samsung or Apple. The S7 seems to be getting good reviews, and if they do have the ability to add an SD card, I'm not sure what benefit there would be to buying an iPhone?
I think it comes out March 11th to my knowledge, which is the only reason my impatience hasn't already forced me into the iPhone 6s plus.
It looks pretty incremental, and we're obviously still learning about thim, but so far it looks like this'd be the first time in a couple of generations that I wouldn't give the LG flagship a clear nod over the Samsung. I think I'd still take the G5, but it's pretty close this time around (but neither of them has announced Project Fi support yet, so that's a theoretical conversation anyway).
Google has said they're working with other vendors to add support once the early-access beta phase is done.
Project Fi is Google's cell service--it replaces your cell carrier. Currently it uses Sprint and T-Mobile both on the back-end (they're adding other regional networks as well), plus seamless calling over any wifi hotspot you can connect to (calls will transition from wifi to sprint to tmobile transparently). It's got a bunch of neat google features as well. And it's cheap as hell; my total bill, with taxes, hovers around $25/month.
Nope, once you're out of wifi range you're on whatever the best of Sprint/T-Mobile is in that area. They're surprisingly decent in combination given how spotty they are individually, but in many areas AT&T and Verizon are still king.
Have you had the problem with SMS shortcodes not working? I've been too lazy to contact Fi support about it, but apparently it's awfully common and takes fixing account by account.
I had to google what an SMS short code is. So no, I haven't, but not in any useful sense.
I get a fair number of these from 2 factor Auth type stuff and no, haven't had any issues at all with this on Fi (I was previously on Google voice and had a ton of issues with it there).
This happened to a friend of mine too. Give them a call and they should be able to take care of it.
I got the G3 and returned it as the really great screen destroyed the battery with any usage, and this allows battery changing I believe. Having the modern encased phone but able to change the battery, that alone is interesting. But realistically I'd rather just not need to.
Nexus 5x. I mostly love it, but I'm not particularly demanding of my phone. The fingerprint reader is great, best I've seen since the old Motorola Atrix (maybe better).
I usually use around 300-400MB/month, same as when I had unlimited data, but it's so cheap that if you're not streaming big media or something then it's not worth limiting yourself artificially from normal use. The first month I burned through 700-800MB (mostly downloading apps, and I downloaded some music/podcasts on the first day before I'd sync'd stuff) and the bill still came out to around $30.
What kind of issues do you have leaving it on? I always leave it on with no problems.
Turn off the "automatically connect to unknown networks" option and you should avoid that, unless you're driving in circles around your home/work or something--it'll still autoconnect to approved networks but nothing else.
