Re: Mobile Phone Suggestions

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: Mobile Phone Suggestions
Date	2015-12-11 02:49 +1100
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"Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 21:14:55 +1000, keithr <no-one@nowhere.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>>On 9/12/2015 9:55 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>> Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote
>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>> keithr <no-one@nowhere.com.au> wrote
>>>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>
>>>>>>>>> Yeah, that is the only real situation in which
>>>>>>>>> aldi is better, where you get no optus service.
>>>
>>>>>>>> What about the 360 day pre-paid expiry?
>>>
>>>>>>> Sure, but I doubt too many actually need that.
>>>
>>>>>> I've got an SMS modem attached to a Raspberry Pi,
>>>>>> 15 bucks will probably last all year on that.
>>>
>>>>> Sure, that works much better on the Amaysim As You Go
>>>>> as long as you do have Optus coverage. Much better
>>>>> because it will do 4G when its available. Aldi wont.
>>>
>>>> If just sending short text SMS messages, I don't see that 4G
>>>> would be much advantage. 3G isn't even much advantage.
>>>
>>> Sure, I meant for doing much more than just SMSs.
>>>
>>>>> The main situation where the aldi sim would be better
>>>>> value is for a pure emergency phone in the car which
>>>>> you only ever use if the car breaks. You may well go
>>>>> for years never needing to use it and the better telstra
>>>>> coverage would be worth having for that use.
>>>
>>>> That's me.
>>>
>>> Mad, it makes a lot more sense to have a better phone
>>> that you can use to check the basics and ask google what
>>> hours particular places keep, use google maps etc too.
>>> Costs peanuts for each one of those often only 1c etc.
>>>
>>>> I've been on ALDI for this year, time to look
>>>> at the options and see which is best value.
>>>
>>> Still Amaysim IMO unless the Optus system isn't that great
>>> where you are. Particularly with 4G which Aldi lacks.
>>>
>>>> I do like the Telstra network,
>>>
>>> The only thing I like much about it is the better coverage
>>> and more 4G currently, but Aldi doesn't let you use that.
>>>
>>>> but it would be nice if Amaysim will allow the account
>>>> to just "sit there" for years without use (and hance
>>>> charge), then only bill me for the one time I use it.
>>>
>>> That is a bit unclear. The T&C says
>>>
>>>     4.10. Minimum spend
>>>
>>>     4.10.1. If you use the Post-paid Payment Option, the minimum
>>>     per account spend amount is $5.00 per billing period. If your
>>>     call usage is less than $5 in a given billing period, an additional
>>>     charge may be added to your account to bring the total to $5.00.
>>>
>>> But I have just rung Amaysim and she said that she had heard
>>> of that but that as far as she knows they have never applied that
>>> and that as long as there is some activity every 6 months it will
>>> continue for as long as that activity continues. So at worst a
>>> 12c SMS or call ever 6 months is much cheaper than Aldi.
>>>
>>> At best maybe even a call to your own home number
>>> that is never answered might well cost you nothing at all.
>>>
>>>> Admittedly I'd probably still go with ALDI for the Telstra
>>>> network, but I like to know my options. I can't see anything
>>>> about post-paid expiry times in the terms and conditions,
>>>> I'll have a better look later.
>>>
>>>>> Dunno how many dinosaurs still use their phone
>>>>> like that now tho. Mad IMO, makes a lot more
>>>>> sense to use the phone for GPS as well and so
>>>>> you wont be using no data at all for years.
>>>
>>>> If I do the same as last year, I'll be buying a new ALDI
>>>> SIM card for $5 and keeping the $5 included credit for
>>>> the year. I'm not interested in going to much trouble to
>>>> better utilise that money. GPS should be free anyway.
>>>
>>> It doesn't cost much to get the better stuff like traffic congestion.
>>
>>With my Garmin GPS traffic congestion information costs nothing and it
>>will route you around it if possible.
>
> By the time they tell YOU it's too late!

Not with google maps it isn't. It first told us that there was an extra
11 minutes delay due to congestion when were way out past Penrith.
And as we came up Southern Cross Drive and the Eastern Distributor
said a few times that there was significant congestion but that we
were still on the fastest route. It wasn't actually that bad on the final
run in in the CBD proper, it had been worse back at Kingsgrove etc.

> Got a replacement cat/kitten for my deceased 30 year
> old cat from Yagoona (Sydney RSPCA) a 30 minute drive
> becoma a four hour one No update as to why or whatever

Using what ?

> Facebook local paper (smartphone)  told me after sitting
> stationary 2 hours cars banked up to Liverpool, nowhere
> to go some arse had flipped his caravan *fine weather
> no wind) on the  F5 Freeway before Campbeltown exit!

It would have been interesting to run multiple
GPS apps on multiple phones in that situation.

> No woder this cats strange?
> https://youtu.be/sc0mi0Ei1CQ

Weird, never noticed that with cats.

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                Re: Mobile Phone Suggestions Petzl <petzlx@gmail.com> - 2015-12-10 22:33 +1100
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