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the time has come to turn dumb like everyone else as i have a phone thats smart. i must be the last person in the uk to succumb to having to do this.
thought i would do it as cheep as possible so i got myself an oppo a5. the thing is fekin huge so no longer will it fit in my jeans pocket.
for those peoplethat are addicted to their phone how much data do you use a month?
i must be the last person in the uk to succumb to having to do this.
Nope, I don't have one but I'll admit I have been looking.
"Three" have a calculator for data usage (which I've not used)
http://www.three.co.uk/datacalculator
the phone is not the only thing i'll need to carry around. i'll need my bloody glasses too.
Nope, I don't have one but I'll admit I have been looking.
"Three" have a calculator for data usage (which I've not used)
http://www.three.co.uk/datacalculator
cheers. i'll have a look. its getting to the point that i cant do internet banking without a smart phone even though i have a computer..
If you're only using it for internet banking and other such things you'll use very little data in a month.
Pre Covid when i was out more, i'd use about 7GB on an average month. But i was using it most work days to stream YouTube or Netflix at lunch, and social media with photo uploads/uploads on a daily basis.
On the Oppo you can view your data usage, and it breaks it down by App too - so you can monitor how much is being used.
I have a 100 gig sim only plan with unlimited calls and texts from Three. Netflix doesn’t use any data with this deal and I can use it as a hot spot so it’s like a router for the kids. I use about 15 gig because I listen to Spotify a lot and watch a few YouTube videos every day. I only have such a big plan so my kids can connect when we go camping and watch Netflix and go on YouTube. It used to be a 30gig plan but when I came to renew they did a 100 for the same price. Not bad for 18 quid a month. If you don’t use YouTube or Spotify then 8 gig would be overkill
I use the laptop to connect to it to stream the footy in the garage sometimes
lets say i use it as a wifi hotspot for connecting a 4k telly to so i can watch netflix what sort of data would i use then? it would be for the mrs and 14hrs a day.
voxi do an unlimited data but dont know if that includes wifi hotspot and the site is less than helpfull about such things.
If you are using your home Wi-Fi it won't eat your data. I have a Tesco Sun with 20gb but tend to use less than 6. That's even streaming Prime music.
my wife cant get internet at the care home so cant watch netflix and i was thinking if i got her a phone she could use it like a wifi hotspot.
Maybe of use?
https://www.androidauthority.com/how-much-data-does-netflix-use-976146/
If you get the three plan Netflix doesn’t come out of your data so in effect it would use none. I dont know how much it would use otherwise
Biker Biggles
10-01-21, 04:53 PM
I caved in two years ago and got an Iphone 5(I think or is it 4)
What a waste of money as I only use it as a phone cos Im a proper dinosaur
the phone is not the only thing i'll need to carry around. i'll need my bloody glasses too.
I’ve got this problem now since I got the cataract surgery. Distance vision is great (for the first time in my life) but I can’t read at all now without reading glasses.
Have a look at ThinOptics. I’ve got a full frame pair attached to the back of my phone in a very slim case and another set of folding specs on a key ring.
They’re not cheap but great design.
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Dave20046
10-01-21, 08:55 PM
the time has come to turn dumb like everyone else as i have a phone thats smart. i must be the last person in the uk to succumb to having to do this.
thought i would do it as cheep as possible so i got myself an oppo a5. the thing is fekin huge so no longer will it fit in my jeans pocket.
for those peoplethat are addicted to their phone how much data do you use a month?
Oh no Bib! Watch your back, Paypal CEO's are coming for you :smt071
I average about 6gb, mainly listening to music over the air wavays and rendering hi-def sv650.org animations :smt082
Giffgaff 10gb a month (£10), unregistered SIM , VPN, I still have some of the privacy you desire - in fact I've been guising myself as you for quite a few years so I'll have to change that now.
Her-in-doors bought me one about a month ago. Not made a call or sent a message on it yet. Used it to check the weather a couple of times.
It might help if I actually gave the number out but even if I do I rarely have it with me, and on two occasions the battery has been flat anyway.
Before retirement my company phone was always with me, and almost in constant use - calls, messages, emails, Whatsapp.
Hate the things with a passion.
Chris_SVS
10-01-21, 10:22 PM
Im with voxi as it happens but I don't quite know if setting as a hotpot to share the 4g will be counted as one of the data free apps.
I can watch Prime Netflix Youtube and others in pretty much interrupted 1080p all day long though. I've been with them a while so I've earned myself an upgrade to 20GB/mo and the unlimited socials/Video addon for £15mo, rarely use more than 2gb these days
cheers peeps. looks like i'll just have to try and see what happens when i get my sim.
weird thing is i have two 02 payg sims here and each one has been rejected and when i tried them in a normal (dumb) phone they also never registered. they worked before i put them in the new smartthing.
dont like the card drawer...
in fact I've been guising myself as you for quite a few years so I'll have to change that now.
you aint getting any burds doing that.. one look at my mug and they run a mile..
Dave20046
11-01-21, 10:26 AM
Think Sims get deregistered if ununsed or activated for 6 months
you aint getting any burds doing that.. one look at my mug and they run a mile..
Yeah but they've heard good things about your gizmo (https://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=199961) !
shiftin_gear98
11-01-21, 02:54 PM
Just got my son the Oppo A5 for his first phone. For the money it's a great phone.
I have an Oppo Find X2 Neo - and love it.
I have 8gb, and NEVER need anywhere near that. But then I use wifi at home and work.
maviczap
11-01-21, 04:57 PM
my wife cant get internet at the care home so cant watch netflix and i was thinking if i got her a phone she could use it like a wifi hotspot.
It'll chew it up pretty quickly using it like that.
When I moved out of my home & into rented accom, I was regularly using up the 6gb plan I was on, that wasn't watching films, that was just browsing.
With Netflix you are able to download the content onto a device, to watch off line. That'd save your data for sure.
GiffGaff were doing 40gb plans, and at least you don't have to take out a long term plan with them.
Otherwise buy a MiFi dongle and watch netflix on a laptop or tablet, using the MiFi as dongle. You could use the GiffGaff sim in that?
With Netflix you are able to download the content onto a device, to watch off line. That'd save your data for sure.
mav sometimes you amaze me.. lol i have qualifications in networking, mcse, cisco etc.etc and it never even occourd (sp) to me to do that.. i have been buying the dvd/br box sets and transferring to mkv and putting them on 8tb hdd's so she can watch her shows but that only lets me buy them when available.
yes i'm a muppet sometimes.
i'm going to try later :-)
maviczap
11-01-21, 07:55 PM
Sometimes I amaze myself too :-)
It's burried in the menus, so not obvious to look for
Glad I could help
You can do the same with Amazon prime video
that changes the ball park... i have both amazon and netflix and about to get disney.
shiftin_gear98
11-01-21, 08:06 PM
If you keep them downloaded you will need to refresh the download every couple of weeks or so. It's not another full download, but more confirming you wish it to still be active. Had to do this quite often when my little girl was Trolls mad. I kept all the episodes on my phone, just incase.
maviczap
11-01-21, 08:09 PM
that changes the ball park... i have both amazon and netflix and about to get disney.
Cool, it'll save having to pay extra for data to stream it
Dave20046
11-01-21, 10:22 PM
mav sometimes you amaze me.. lol i have qualifications in networking, mcse, cisco etc.etc and it never even occourd (sp) to me to do that.. i have been buying the dvd/br box sets and transferring to mkv and putting them on 8tb hdd's so she can watch her shows but that only lets me buy them when available.
yes i'm a muppet sometimes.
i'm going to try later :-)
If you think of it like that, Netflix (/amazon whoever) saves you on storage and upkeep of your hardware too (providing they have your tastes on their service :-dd )
chris8886
11-01-21, 11:09 PM
the time has come to turn dumb like everyone else as i have a phone thats smart. i must be the last person in the uk to succumb to having to do this.
thought i would do it as cheep as possible so i got myself an oppo a5. the thing is fekin huge so no longer will it fit in my jeans pocket.
for those peoplethat are addicted to their phone how much data do you use a month?
:o:pale: that is all.... :p
google want to rule the world.. furkin play stores... in this day and age why should one have to sign into your mail account just to download a bit of software.. its a furkin joke. i never got this thing to have email on the go. the bloody difficulty signing out is beyond a joke.
i'm starting to regret this.
chris8886
12-01-21, 07:54 PM
i'm starting to regret this.
Sorry Bib's but..… :smt043
shiftin_gear98
12-01-21, 08:20 PM
Just create a new gmail email, you never intend to use for anything else.
Log in with that. Down load what ever you want. Simples.
wouldt mind but its the ping, ping, ping. 5am.. ping. ohh did i say PING... its worse than having a nagging furkin wife.
i signed out. turned apps off but for some furkin reason they turn themselves on again if there is something new.
iys going to end up against the wall.. how do people put up with it.............
DarrenSV650S
12-01-21, 09:28 PM
Customise notifications for each app. Set them to silent if you prefer. Also set up a do-not-disturb automatic schedule 10pm-8am for example
Dave20046
12-01-21, 10:28 PM
google want to rule the world.. furkin play stores... in this day and age why should one have to sign into your mail account just to download a bit of software.. its a furkin joke. i never got this thing to have email on the go. the bloody difficulty signing out is beyond a joke.
i'm starting to regret this.
There's still time to go back to your old tech (http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190926-these-ancient-scottish-cave-drawings-may-soon-vanish) :shaking2:
yup. i'm going to start grinding my own grain with this ****ty phone.
thing is i should not have to go through all the settings to turn things off, apps should ask when they are installed. aaaaarrrrgggg
SV650rules
13-01-21, 10:51 AM
Hate the things with a passion.
After a long time with a company phone on call 7 days I hate them too, at least with a pager you could pretend you never got the message and landlines didn't follow you around :p
Worked with automation, robotics and tech all my career - time for a rest now.. I do have a mobile a Doro clamshell phone with a proper button keyboard that does texts and calls, would do data as well but I can't be 4r5ed...
Adam Ef
13-01-21, 11:09 AM
wouldt mind but its the ping, ping, ping. 5am.. ping. ohh did i say PING...
There's an amazing bit of tech for this called "Shoebox". You put your phone in it and put it under the sofa in another room when you don't want it to disturb you.
I got one. Not cheap at £35, but it did come with free shoes. :)
SV650rules
13-01-21, 11:23 AM
There's an amazing bit of tech for this called "Shoebox". You put your phone in it and put it under the sofa in another room when you don't want it to disturb you.
I got one. Not cheap at £35, but it did come with free shoes. :)
Isn't there an 'off' button on the phone ? When I had a microsoft phone ( Lumia something or other IIRC ) the alarm would not work if the phone was turned off, but alarm on every other phone i'd had before and since did. So with stupid MS phone if you wanted to use the alarm you had to leave the phone turned on all night making various noises while you tried to sleep... and a shoebox wasn't an option, who wants to carry a shoebox with them when traveling ?
Adam Ef
13-01-21, 11:27 AM
and a shoebox wasn't an option, who wants to carry a shoebox with them when traveling ?
Wrap it in a towel? There are other options... shoebox was just a silly example. Also there's a lot to be said for a stand alone alarm clock. You can get small cheap ones. We got one for my daughter to stop her going on her phone after lights out. The need for an alarm was her excuse to keep the phone by her bed... and sneak onto it until 2am when were all asleep.
maviczap
13-01-21, 12:30 PM
Just activate DND on the pull down settings and then you'll get NO disturbance.
FFS.. just went to try and use the camera to see what its like. you cant use it unless you turn the mike on... now that just plain stupid.
I don't like using this phone on here
first months mobile data usage is a whopping 320mb.. yes i said megabytes. that was messing with netflix and personal hotspot to see if it worked for a while as well.
the phone has just turned it counter so i have switched off wifi.
timwilky
12-02-21, 07:14 PM
read small prints.
I have multiple sims in office and garage alarms and also the bike trackers from giffgaff. All pay as you go and use minimal.
My phone is unlimited talk/sms/data from Virgin. But I needed a fall over internet.
I have 600Mb Virgin, but cannot get a telephone based internet as I am too far from the exchange (5m) for internet over aluminium cable. Yes aluminium and not copper with no plans for FTTP despite all the ads I get over the internet. So I need an unlimited sim.
3 great except it is 3G, they caught me when my kids persuaded me to go with them to discover no 4G where I live.
EE great 4G, but their unlimited is actually a fair use of 1TB. for someone like me who uses about 100GB/day useless.
So I currently have an unlimited sim from Vodafone business which cost me £26/month. Even though it is 5G. I cannot get a 5G signal.
I have acrually had to lend my daughter the modem and a wifi router as she has been waiting 3 months for openreach to provide a line to her farmhouse. I saw them doing the install to the yard last week so hopefully she may be live. But as she is about 6 miles from the exchange I somehow think she may be getting a signal litle better than my aluminium cable. She initially told me the modem/router were not working. Well no, her house was built 1629 and has solid stone walls/roof Reposition the modem in the window that gave strongest signal and 20yard of cable to the wifi router in the lounge and the smart tv gets wifi.
Bonus 14yr old dirt bag grandson can only use his laptop/phone in the lounge so no more dodgy sites.
i get a strong 4g signal where i live. i have been informed that i cant use personal hotspot for streaming but i can cast from my phone to tv and do it that way. i have not tried yet so project for later. unlimited streaming on netflix etc.etc is £15 month on Voxi.
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