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Project Fi by Google
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#553Earlier quoted context omitted.
> * As a H1B visa holder I am, according to TMO, not able to get a postpaid plan What? I'm on a TN and I have a postpaid plan and device payment plan. Your visa status doesn't really affect your phone plan eligibility.
Visa status does not affect your eligibility for payment plans. However, H1B holders are people having recently arrived to the US, and therefore with 0 credit history. This is what impacts the capability to get a postpaid plan, but after a few months to build it up there should be no problem. Personally, I find it ridiculous. Having money in the bank as well as a good salary, and not being able to sign up for a 30$ m…
I can confirm that Visa status is immaterial for payment plans.
AT&T will let you sign up for a post-paid without a credit history. I didn't want to provide a SSN (even though I have one), so they let me pay an $800 deposit fee - was worth it to avoid the personal information exposure.
The credit card thing is strange - I got a $20,000 one with wells fargo the month after I moved down to the united states in 1996 - on a $50,000 salary working desktop support. I was quite honestly a little shocked - but just went with it.
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There's this thing called the home button...
On most android phones that thing is part of the display that contextually hides itself, and doesn't take up extra physical space
"Most"? I've not had a single Android phone where the buttons have been part of the display. A few tablets, but no phones. I'm sure there are plenty of phones that do that too, but I've somehow managed to avoid them for the 6-7 or so Android phones I've owned.
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#555Hacker News is great. Saw the video and got nothing, came here and got the facts.
Side note: Google has been taken over by marketers, the engineers who built this must be cringing.
Certainly not a startup way to do this, feels a bit like Wave ie massive ambition, not useful out of the box to anybody.
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#556Just want to hasle you guys with danish pricing
For about $28 a month i Get ALL this:
4 hours talk time 5GB 4g data Unlimited text
And these services are included FREE
HBO Nordic (Hbo NOW) Telmore Music (Think Spotify) TV2 Play (Think mini mini HULU) C More PLAY (More streaming) Mofibo (Netflix for ebooks) Min Bio (Netflix for kidshows) politiken (Newspaper) Ekstra Bladet Plus (Newspaper) Euroman (Magazine think GQ) Eurowoman (Magazine think ladies GQ) Gastro (Magazine) Rum (Magazine)
https://www.telmore.dk/telmoreplay?icid=home-playlightpakke-...
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The "refund" language is confusing for the purposes of advertising, and I wouldn't bother repeating it. It's by-the-gig pricing, full stop. They just charge you for data you use, at a quite competitive price.
I don't think that that's correct. The plan page basically says that it's by-the-100MB pricing. https://fi.google.com/about/plan/
I'm not sure if that's true. Their line about refunding unused data says "you’ll get your unused data credited in dollars and cents" which implies that it may be as fine grained as by the 1MB pricing (if they are actually refunding cents as well)
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#558It surprises me every time how expensive data is in the US. I get unlimited text, 300 minutes and 6GB of data(4G) for about $40 a month.
I make a lot of my calls through Facetime now, so I don't need unlimited minutes.
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#559I'm getting one, to use in China, without censorship. The problem is, I will stuck with an Android phone :(
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#560Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely correct about restarting your phone. I even restart mine twice after I change SIM cards (not a T-Mobile guy). What's your experience with Google Maps at the free 2G speeds? That would be my first question when it comes to travel.
> What's your experience with Google Maps at the free 2G speeds? "Unpleasant." What I'd strongly recommend is to download the map using offline maps before you leave. If you wait for Google Maps to download the data over the 2G/free tier you'll be in for a very long (10+ minute) wait. I did not do offline maps before I left, but mostly we were on tours so we didn't really need them. But if I was e.g. exploring a city…
Worth noting that not every country lets you offline a map. There's a list of countries you can offline a map for here: https://support.google.com/gmm/answer/2650347?hl=en
It's a long list, but there's some notable / surprising absences (e.g. Brazil, Spain).