{"id":18840,"date":"2015-08-16T09:27:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T13:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=18840"},"modified":"2020-11-23T06:15:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T11:15:49","slug":"new-smartphone-for-the-webmaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=18840","title":{"rendered":"New Smartphone for the Webmaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good day all, this is the Angry Systems Administrator. It’s that time again when we need to replace the moron’s<\/i><\/span> Angry Webmaster’s cell phone.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been researching a replacement for His Nibs Samsung Galaxy S3. When it was announced that Samsung was going to release the Galaxy S6 I thought that might be a great upgrade. Then the technical specifications came out and I recoiled in horror. The S6 does not have a removable battery or an SD card slot. Basically, they turned it into a Korean Iphone.<\/p>\n

These \u201cfeatures\u201d were a deal killer for me. I liked the S3 and removing these features is the dumbest idea I’ve seen in a while. Basically, they are creating planned obsolescence, which is exactly what Apple has done with their Iphones. Since Samsung jumped the shark, I started looking around, and landed on the LG G4.<\/p>\n

I’ve also learned that our mobile provider, TING.COM, had added a second backbone provider. When we set up with Ting a few years ago, they were using Sprint as their backbone provider. It was acceptable, but there were areas that the signal dropped out. Recently, they added a GSM provider to their network, T-Mobile.<\/p>\n

I’ve always preferred GSM to CDMA, (CDMA is used by Sprint and Verizon), especially since GSM is the favored protocol around the world. The only problem was that Ting only had the Samsung Galaxy S6. They hadn’t received any LG G4 phones yet. Fortunately, Ting also has a \u201cBring Your Own Device\u201d program. I contacted Ting and they said it would be no problem to add the new phone to their network.<\/p>\n

I went to Tmobile and talked to them about the phone and getting it unlocked from the Tmobile network. (While Ting uses them, if the Webmaster should go overseas, he will want to buy a local prepaid SIM to save money) This is where I ran into an issue. Tmobile has a policy that you have to be connected to their service for a set period before they will unlock the phone.<\/p>\n

While I thought this may be a deal killer, further research and good timing indicated that if I went with a prepaid plan, they will unlock the phone in a month, and even with the prepaid plan, I would still save money buying the phone. I made the decision to go with this and whipped out the company credit card.<\/p>\n

Now this is a very nice phone. It’s slightly larger then the Galaxy S3 and has a much larger onboard memory capacity. I’ve ordered a few accessories, such as a new car charger, a case and holster and a 64GB San disk.<\/p>\n

Currently I’m configuring it to be as close to what the Technical Klutz<\/i><\/span> Angry Webmaster has now on his current phone, so that when I swap them out, he won’t panic and run around screaming like a stuck pig. Since he has a Google account, porting his contacts and apps over was simple. Now I’m just pulling in his backups to match his customized apps and contacts.<\/p>\n

In the next few days the accessories as well as the Ting SIM card will arrive and I will convert him over to the new phone. This should keep him happy and quite for a few more years, and keep him for pestering me for the latest and greatest budget busting new toy. Oh who am I kidding? That jerk is never happy.<\/p>\n

Thank you<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

~The Angry Systems Administrator~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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Good day all, this is the Angry Systems Administrator. It’s that time again when we need to replace the moron’s Angry Webmaster’s cell phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,57,219],"tags":[40,222,57],"class_list":["post-18840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-the-good-idea-fairy","tag-general-housekeeping","tag-good-idea-fairy","tag-technology"],"views":668,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17426,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=17426","url_meta":{"origin":18840,"position":0},"title":"Samsung Galaxy S6","author":"Angry Systems Administrator","date":"March 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all, this is the Angry Systems Administrator. 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