- I'm cruising the internet
and I find something that I don't have,
that I didn't even know that I needed,
but when I discovered it, I knew I had to have it.
(lively electronic tune)
You've got all these cool gadgets.
You've got everything your heart desires.
But what I don't have is a cellphone plan
I wanna snuggle with.
That's right, you heard me,
a cellphone plan that I wanna snuggle with.
This is the claim Google is making
on the front of their website for Google Fi,
their wireless carrier
WiFi project for everyone.
And it's like I'm reading this
and Google is giving me a phone plan
that I wanna snuggle with.
What is this about?
So I quickly went, I bought it,
it came in the mail like two days later.
This is what came in the mail.
Here it is: easy, simple, nothing crazy,
nothing complicated about it.
Project Fi.
That's what it is.
It's this, and hold,
extra, I don't think they charged me
but it's worth a mention.
They sent a paper clip.
In this paper clip
is my wireless technology
(chuckles) that provides me a cell phone carrier
that I want to snuggle with.
No, no, I'm just joking about that.
On the website, it says it works
with LG phones,
the Google Pixel, of course, and a couple other devices.
Now, I've been recently rocking the LG G7,
so that works for me.
And I also have the Google Pixel,
so I guess you can actually
get the wireless service Google Fi
on your Pixel without a SIM card,
if I read it correctly, maybe I was confused,
chances are, but I want to go ahead
and tear this open, plug it into my Pixel
and see what's gonna happen.
Here's the deal.
It gives you access
to three major wireless carrier signals
and depending on where you are and where you're located,
your phone will automatically switch
to the carrier that's giving you
the strongest signal, the best speed.
Who hasn't been in one location,
been like, man, I've got Sprint, they're crappy.
And then the guy over here is, like, I got Verizon.
Verizon's kicking butt.
And then you got AT&T in the middle here,
they're like, yeah, I'm pretty solid just about all the time
nothing really too impressive here.
I was renting an apartment once
and this was long time ago.
I had a Nextel.
This was right before the Sprint buyout
or the merger, whatever it was.
I had Nextel and I had the phone
for, I kid you not, 10 days,
and I had to take it back within the two weeks
because inside of my house, I had no signal.
But what if I had this?
What if this was my SIM card?
Then if I was in my house and I had no signal,
I would just switch over to the carrier
that gave me the best signal.
I think that's a pretty cool idea.
That's a pretty rock-solid concept.
I applaud Google for coming up with this.
But how does it work?
This is what we need to know, guys.
How good does it work?
Can it compare to Verizon, to Sprint, to T-Mobile?
From what I gather,
that's exactly what we're working with here,
major US cellular carriers,
all providing signal to this card,
well, the SIM card.
Let's go ahead and just open up
and let's see what happens on the phone.
Do you guys remember that paper clip I told you about?
Here it is.
This is the paper clip.
It came in the mail.
I think, and I could be wrong,
but I think this is my SIM card ejector tool (laughs).
I think that's what it is.
I think Google sent me this paper clip
because it's my SIM card ejector tool.
Oh my god, and it is.
It's my SIM card ejector tool.
Google, shame on you.
Shame on you.
You sent me a pin
as my SIM ejector tool.
What is that about?
We're moving right along.
So we took the SIM card out.
This is our first time we're popping it open.
Here it is, guys.
We've got a phone, we've got a data,
we've got a text message.
Same thing here.
Project Fi, activate by 6/14/2019.
So, it came with a bit of an expiration date on it, it did.
All right.
Look, look, (chuckles) the instructions even show
that you use the pins as the SIM ejector tool.
Ah, now this is great.
Now Google, I'm in love (laughs).
Now I get it.
So here is our SIM ejector tool.
Twist this guy out, all right.
We are popping it right in.
See what direction does it go.
Right there.
All right. So, we pop this in.
We slide it into the SIM tray holder,
boom.
Look at that, there's something going on there.
My phone knows something just happened.
Oh, the data came on.
The data just came on.
Did you see that, guys?
Project Fi not fully activated.
I picked the email I set it up with.
We activated calls and text.
Not available until your number is assigned,
we're working on it.
Next, okay.
Automatically send, okay, turn on network diagnostics.
I'm a team player.
Please use the latest version.
Updating.
Okay, Update, open.
All right, we're good to go.
With Bill Protection, pay only for the data you use
up to six gigs on individual plans.
The rest is on us.
So if we just heard this correct,
we only pay six gigs of data and the rest is on Google.
And I think you can get up to 10 gigs,
so it's basically a 10-gig plan,
I think, for like 50 or 60 bucks.
That's pretty darn cheap, it's pretty good,
especially if you're gaining access
to multiple carriers throughout the country.
Who can't beat that?
No more worrying about it.
It's gonna be fun.
We're gonna check it out.
We're gonna see if we like it.
The clip as my SIM card ejector was a big giant laugh.
I wasn't expecting that.
Thank you so much, Google.
We're gonna go through.
We're gonna play with it.
I'm gonna come back and report to you guys
in about a week or so
exactly how my carrier service is doing.
Do I like it?
Do I not like it?
Is it garbage?
Is it worth your money?
That's what we wanna know.
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