......or keeping up w/ the yuppies or Gen X ers
Official announcement , we both have U.S. pay as you go - smartphones
Tracfone had UMX Max Patriot smart phones on sale , on line for $39.99 , no tax , no shipping
But Dollar General had a price for $19.99 +tx.
You know the story , I went to buy the Samsung Ace Style but found the Mx Ptrt instead
Well , M got one too !
My activation ( port the number process ) took 15 minutes using on line , phone line automated voice service and a real agent. Eventually , after 40 minutes , the smartphone worked.
M 's port the number process - 3 minutes on line , fill in data and a 20 minute wait for the original phone to be de - commissioned and the smartphone up and running
You see , I got smarter and had learnt a thing or two.
On line reviews , panned the Ace Style for poor visibility in daylight and colour bleed
we'll never know
The MaxPatriot got dissed for only a rear facing camera - no selfies here , I guess. And poor battery life
the reviews failed to mention longer than expected charge times
Of course , a whole lot of learning is going on
We only have have talk and text but lots of that
2040 minutes ported over for me and 911 min for M
Each new phone offers 3X minutes on re - upping on the anniversary date thus I'll have 1200 min added in a short while.
The MxPtrt comes loaded w/ every app that you never needed.
however , using Google mail , the MxPtrt found all my contacts from gmail , this is called ' syncing ' - so all of China knows my address list
First thing that you need to do is shut down ' auto updates ' b/c every app wants to update.
Thus , no map quest for us on the go.
The old phones need recycling , we'll need to figure out where
BTW , the final comment on UMX , the company that makes MxPtrt , is that not much is known about the Chinese firm
I think UMX is an alias for Unknown Maker X
the phone says ' Ultimate Mobile Experience ' but we know that that isn't true
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