Trish is back to Quilters and a Bus Trip into Brisbane to a Craft shop or something today.
She has been using a 'smart phone' she bought from Coles for $49 a couple of years ago. Slowly but surely it is dying. It works pretty well for her and does everything she wanted. But it began doing some strange things so on Wednesday she came home with a new phone.
It is a Huawei Y300 and cost her $99 from the local Telstra Shop (and locked to the Telstra Network). For what she wants and for what this phone does it is a 'steal' at $99.For the basic user who wants to make calls, perhaps take a photo, read her emails, play a couple of simple games you don't need to spend copious amounts of money on a top of the range Samsung or an Apple.
Phone companies must love people who know nothing about phones or plans and buy a phone with all the wizz bangs they would never use and then pay around $60+ a month and lock themselves in for 2 years and get a few calls and a top of the range phone. Instead they should grab this phone for under $100 and get on a $20 per month plan with heaps of calls and data.
The new phone even comes with a two year warranty! It loads quickly and works beautifully. A $20 plan with Telechoice gives you $500 worth of calls (around 8 hours of calls), 1GB of data and all of this on 97% of the Telstra Australia wide network.
So it is a two stage operation, firstly get your phone and then secondly get yourself a Telechoice sim card by checking out their website. With this phone it does seem to look for updates pretty regularly so you just need to keep an eye on your data usage. When you are home, this is off your home wireless network and isn't a problem. When you are out it gets it via the mobile phone network and this costs from your data allowance. But the if you want you can just turn the phone's data "off".
Despite Trish heading out for the day we will have drinks tonight around with Ian and Kerrie. Trish will get there when she can. Other friends John and Margaret are away. Marg's mum in her 80's, lives in the town of Texas, has cancer and recently suffered a heart attack so they have headed out there to help her convalesce.
Our recent meal at Thai Lime Twist on Wednesday was very pleasant and came in at around $25 per head. But you get a little cross at $2 per head corkage and then an extra 1% on the bill to pay with a credit card. Though not a lot of money, it doesn't encourage you to return.
It is actually cloudy today and a shower or two is forecast. It is cloudy right now but we haven't seen any rain to speak of here for around 4 weeks! It is expected to fine up later today but occasional showers and temps in the mid 20's is forecast for the next few days.
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