Re: The mobile phone thread

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:20 pm

It can do 5ghz. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Tue Jul 27, 2021 8:21 pm

Unfortunately, my laptop can only fo 2.4, meaning I can't do the full mega-fast experience. Colbert

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Jul 28, 2021 5:53 pm

I've just realised I now have eight phones. shifty

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Jul 28, 2021 5:54 pm

I could set some of them up as security cameras. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Jul 28, 2021 5:55 pm

But what if one of them detects something creepy and disturbing? scared

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Jul 28, 2021 5:55 pm

Like an alien? bawl

by Fangirl Three Thu Jul 29, 2021 7:46 am

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:But what if one of them detects something creepy and disturbing?

Just stop using it to read the NHOTW then ha ha no

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Jul 31, 2021 4:32 pm

AliExpress have emailed me, today, to tell me my phone's now arrived in the country and will be delivered very soon. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Jul 31, 2021 4:32 pm

by Fangirl Three Sat Jul 31, 2021 4:39 pm

Is the phone working okay?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Jul 31, 2021 4:53 pm

So far, it is working fine. yes

by Fangirl Three Sun Aug 01, 2021 6:07 am

by Fangirl Three Mon Dec 06, 2021 1:52 pm

Fangirl Three wrote:Inspired by Wendi's example, I've just used my mobile phone as a hotspot.

It worked well, but it cost me 95p to work for 10 minutes. Just like the old days on Compuserve, except I wasn't working then.

I am now an experienced hotspot user, because the Premier Inn wifi is too unreliable for remote desktopping.

And I've got a better PAYG plan too. I was paying 10p/M before, now it's 0.5p. Or 0.2p if I splash out £20 at a time.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Dec 06, 2021 4:25 pm

If you use Smarty, you get unlimited data for £20 a month.

by Fangirl Three Mon Dec 20, 2021 7:44 am

My old PAYG supplier is closing down (not surprising given the 10p/M data charge) and I have to find a way of using up my remaining credit, cos you can't get it transferred when you port the number to a new supplier.

All I can think of is sending donation texts to charities? Is there anything else you can do with spare PAYG credit?

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Mon Jan 03, 2022 5:46 pm

Blackberry is now Deaded!

https://www.techradar.com/news/old-blackberry-phones-will-stop-working-from-january-4

gasp

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Mon Jan 03, 2022 5:58 pm

by Fangirl Three Tue Jan 04, 2022 8:52 am

I couldn't send any charity donation texts, because apparently my ex-supplier didn't support that.

It took them a whole working week to get back to me with that answer btw. And it wasn't over Christmas either.

In the end I just used up the credit by using mobile data at 10p/M (£100 a gig!)

I have successfully ported my main number to EE. I am now awaiting porting of my backup number to 1pmobile.

I'm not over-optimistic about 1p mobile, because I requested the transfer on Dec 21 and they said they couldn't do it till Jan 5! Tomorrow!

Whereas I put my EE request on on Christmas Day and they did it on the 29th.

In other news, I'm not porting my third number, the one for the decoy phone, because I'm being told that having a push-button phone is now suspicious in itself - the only reason anyone under 60 would have one is as a decoy.

So I'm going to make the backup phone also my decoy phone. I only use it for listening to podcasts anyway.

Obviously please don't tell the police/muggers about the decoy phone as it has to be a secret for the decoy to work.

by Fangirl Three Thu Jan 06, 2022 2:11 pm

I've finally got my phones how I wanted them. 1p mobile on my backup/podcast phone, EE on my main/hotspot phone. And with their original phone numbers.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jan 06, 2022 3:14 pm

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