Yesterday's post was short--I was pretty tired after my day and hadn't the energy to add more. So I am writing a bonus post this week. Aren't you lucky!!!
Turns out the person trying to log into my Face Time was......my phone, communicating with itself. I'm telling you, phones are getting too smart for their own good. The Apple Help representative, Ken, was very helpful in helping me figure out what was going on over the phone.
We had been loyal AT&T customers for many years and had a great plan. So you may be interested in why we switched. If you look at this article and scroll down, you can see the US coverage maps for the four major carriers. Verizon is used by most full time RVers because it has better coverage in more areas (especially out west.) If your cell phone carrier does not have coverage in an area you will be roaming, and then all that nice data (for checking Facebook, finding the nearest Walmart, or looking for reviews on a campground) that you pay for in your plan will not be accessed. Instead you will be allowed a small amount of roaming data that can be used up in hours sometimes. And you will still be paying for your data you can't touch.
Our daughter Kristen and her DH Jason were most kind and hanve allowed us to add our phones to their Verizon account. We will pay our portion of the bill each month. And since our phones were many years old, it was time to upgrade to the new iPhone 6. We got the smaller of the new phones which are still longer and wider than our old iPhones, but they feel so much lighter that I remarked to Bob it was like holding a fake phone.
Most of our data for internet when we are not on a campground's WiFi system (when available) will now come from our new mobile hotspot, which gives us 20 gigabytes of data a month. Hopefully that will work for us. We did have 30 gigabytes with AT&T but we will have to conserve a bit. And we will be watching for promotions that give more for free. We missed the last "double your data" promotion at the end of last year.
And the cases to choose from! You can get a case that is fireproof, or will protect the phone when taking pictures under water, or one that can recharge the iPhone without cords just by flipping a switch. I kid you not!! Here is the one that charges your iPhone here.
Of course, all of those options are in the $90 and up price range. We were not ready to spend another $200 on cases. So we got basic ones and we are fine with those.
We also got free wireless speakers so we can listen to my iPod music or podcasts with great sound. Those will be fun to play with, and were a special promotion. At some point we may get a WiFi booster but that will wait until we save up a bit.
So far, we love our new phones. Hopefully we will have the coverage we need now.
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