Phun with Phones

[MiniDave]

I've done speed tests on my computers, but never on my phone....I wouldn't know how to do that?

My laptop is running 90 each way on wifi, but it's an older one and limited to 100 mbps unless hard wired, then it will take the full gig.

[94touring]

Same way you do from a computer.  Pull up Google from your phone and type in speed test. 

[Jims5543]

Our subdivision is finally in the 21st Century. After 20+ years of the only choice being Comcast, At&T has run Fiber Optics through the hood.

We just hooked up Saturday, 1,000 down 500 up.  Then we were informed if we wanted AT&T phones the service will be heavily discounted because we have the internet too. 4 phones on T-mobile was $250 a month 4 phones on AT&T are $120 a month.

We do not travel internationally hardly at all so that is not an issue. I have no opinion concerning AT&T vs. T-mobile, we used to have AT&T and felt the coverage between the 2 were the same.

Verizon is king around here. I still have 2 Verizon phones for the 2 field crews (me being one) and I am about to upgrade them too.

[MiniDave]

The wife is convinced the coverage is better here on AT&T, so we stayed with them. We don't do any international travel now so that's not an issue.....

[94touring]

In Punta Cana today. The wifi at the hotel is slow as hell but 4g is fast at least.

[MiniDave]

Flying people in or out of the DR?

[94touring]

Flying people in or out of the DR?

Regular people charter to Barcelona.

[Jims5543]

They have new versions of the Xcover. I am comparing specs to the new DuraForce. I have an old DuraForce now, but I am thinking of switching to T-Mobile, and they say the Samsung Xcover works better with their network. But comparing specs, this might be an old problem because the new Kyocera DuraForce seems to cover all the same bands and more than the Samsung Xcover. So I guess it comes down to what I want. The Kyocera has been amazing you can't scratch the screen its waterproof I have dropped it off of roofs on to concrete and even ran it over with a small tractor it still works pretty good after 5 years but the camera finally died and I use that a lot so time for a new phone and new carrier im done with verizion. The Samsung Xcover seems to meet the same specs. Maybe I'll give it a try, it's convenient because the mobile carries it. Id have to buy my own kyocera duraforce.   

I saw you are moving away from Verizon, just wanted to say I went to Verizon to upgrade to the latest  XCover and saw they are on XCover7, it was turning into a shit show upgrading online.

Frustrated, I went on Amazon and found the XCover6 refurbished for 1/3 the price ($200 ea) already set up for Verizon network. Just got them last night, I am heading to Verizon tomorrow to activate them. I do not need the latest with these phones, the last generation is fine, we mostly use them for work and not much more. So they sit at night and weekends hardly used.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BYPMD541?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

[Jims5543]

I tend to hang on to my phones a really long time, I hate changing them, hence my being online right now. I had to jump on all the apps I use during the week and make sure they all are signed in and working correctly.

I am sitting at my laptop looking up passwords. My data transfer was good but missed a few passwords that I had to manually enter.

The other thing  I was just doing was setting up cloud backup on my personal cloud server.  As I said I hang on to phones a long time, my old phone was a Samsung S20.

It seems when the S21 came out the memory card port was deleted. My S25 obviously does not have one, so now I have to find a efficient way to back up my pictures and videos.  Since I have a cloud server for my business, I created a secure folder for my backup and set it up to auto back up my pictures and video's whenever I am on wifi.

Complete drag that they did away with the memory card port.

[94touring]

You should be able to transfer port to port (c to c) I thought I'd miss external memory cards but I do not.

[Jims5543]

You should be able to transfer port to port (c to c) I thought I'd miss external memory cards but I do not.

I had a decent size card that has been moved between my last 3 phones, it has pictures on it going back 15 years or more.

Yes, there are other ways to backup, I could just plug into my laptop and move them. I liked just storing everything on a memory card I can move form device to device. I had my camera programmed to store dorectly to the memory card. I didn't have to think about backing up.  Technically I do not have to think about it now either. When I got to the office this morning I looked on the cloud server and it had already backed up all my photos in my phone.