Re: Mobile Phone Suggestions

From	keithr <no-one@nowhere.com.au>
Newsgroups	aus.computers
Subject	Re: Mobile Phone Suggestions
Date	2015-12-12 21:14 +1000
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On 11/12/2015 8:53 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>
>
> "keithr" <no-one@nowhere.com.au> wrote in message
> news:dcvmm8FhspU3@mid.individual.net...
>> On 11/12/2015 1:28 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>> keithr <no-one@nowhere.com.au> wrote
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> Same with google maps.
>
>> No data charges?
>
> Not when you stay within the data allowance on the plan.
>
>>>> and it will route you around it if possible.
>>>
>>> Same with google maps and it keeps telling you that
>>> you are still on the fastest route if that isn't possible.
>>>
>>> And there is no way that I am going to cart around
>>> anything but a phone now with the phones so capable.
>>> The iphone GPS is a lot more sensitive that the TomTom
>>> and the Garmin in difficult areas too.
>>>
>>> Main thing google maps still doesn’t do is individual
>>> lane directions in the turn by turn instructions and it
>>> doesn’t have the current speed limit on the screen
>>> at all times which can be handy with the much too
>>> frequent speed limit changes that are still a real pain
>>> in the arse at times.
>>>
>>> No way I am going to pay anything like $100 for
>>> that stuff as you have to for the GPS apps from
>>> those traditional GPS systems on your phone.
>>>
>>> There is likely a free one that does add lane
>>> advisorys to the turn by turn that you can use
>>> in specific situation like the run up South
>>> Cross Drive etc coming into the Eastern
>>> Distributor. Just haven't looked for that yet.
>
>> I have to go into Brisbane tomorrow,I'll try the Nexus with Google
>> maps alongside the Garmin GPS.
>
> Pity about the difference in the cost.
> No cost at all with google maps.

Other than the cost to your data allowance of course.

> And it has lane advisorys in 23 countrys right now.
>
> On both android and iOS, showed
> up at the same time with both too.
>
> Identical app in fact.

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