So today I'm going to talk about why I switched from an iPhone and AT&T
to Google Phi and a pixel 3
So last year I went to Paris for three days and that's not really enough time to invest in a
phone and a SIM card in that country
So I contacted AT&T to see if I could get an international plan for a couple days
It was like 15 or 20 dollars a day, which is a ridiculous amount of money, but I want to edit paid it
But I vowed to come back and find a solution
Pretty soon. I'm going to embark on a one to three year adventure where I'm just traveling around the world
Non-stop, so I wanted to find the easiest way
To stay connected to the world in travel my research led me to Google and their phone service which was called
Project Phi but now is called Google fly at the time. They didn't take iPhones
They just recently announced that you can have an iPhone on
Google fly's network
But there are some restrictions so I was a little bit apprehensive because I am an Apple guy and I didn't really want to leave
the Apple ecosystem
However, Google was developing a new phone called the pixel 3 at the time and it seemed like that was gonna be a viable
IPhone alternative for someone that was new to android phones
And so I waited a year for the pixel 3 to come out
I ordered the pixel 3 there was some delivery issues and it took over 2 months for me to get the phone
I almost decided not to make the switch because I was so frustrated with getting my phone
But eventually I got the phone and I decided to go ahead and use it and I'm really glad I did I had a lot
of preconceived
notions of
what an Android phone is like my mom has like an older one and I've tried to use them before and the
Operating system just didn't work very well on her phone
And I just kind of thought that's how all Android phones work. The pixel three is just as smooth as the iPhone
I actually prefer the pixel three to the iPhone
let me caveat that first by saying I had an iPhone 6 and I was waiting around to see if I was gonna upgrade or
Move to an Android phone the pixel 3 interface is much
Smoother than my iPhone 6 iOS interface was I thought it was going to be a struggle not having a home button
But it took me about 20 minutes of playing with the pixel 3 to actually not missed it at all
Almost all of the apps that I normally used on the iPhone were just as good on the Android and in some cases
They were better. There were a couple apps that weren't that great like the Robin Hood app
For example, I use that for a little bit of my investing portfolio
The app on Android isn't as pretty as it was on the iPhone
But it still works and it serves my needs. Like I said, I'm a huge fan of the Apple ecosystem
I was a little worried about things that I have come to really like
like iMessage and my air pods
Airdrop and things like that as far as I message goes
Android has their own web-based version that I use in Google Chrome and
It's just as good and I don't even notice the difference. My air pods are the thing
I was really concerned about because I use these things all the time
If you see me walking around the street, I'll always have these in my ear listening to a podcast or music actually
This was the one sticking point for me to be honest with you, which seems kind of silly
But they actually integrate really well with the pixel three
I had adjusted the factory presets on these with my iPhone actually
I just put the earbuds in and they worked exactly how I had them set up on my
IPhone and I discovered that there was an app that I could download
That would let me know what my battery life was on my ear and lastly because the pixel
integrates with
Google's cloud service everything that I would airdrop before
I just go to Google's cloud service and download it's pretty easy. Actually. Ok. So the real reason I
Switched to pixel 3 from iPhone was because at the time I switched
You couldn't have an iPhone on
Project by now known as Google Phi which is Google's phone service about a week ago
They announced that you could use your iPhone on
their plan with a couple
Restrictions if you're interested in using an iPhone on Google Phi, you just google it and you'll see what the restrictions are
Here are the main reasons why I switched to Google 5. The first reason and most important is
I can use this phone almost anywhere in the world. It's like a 170 to 180 countries and your phone
just
Seamlessly works you keep the same phone number
Google has agreements in these 170 180 countries that allows you to use the local phone service
You keep your number. That was really really important to me that I could take this phone
Anywhere in the world and not have to worry about getting a local SIM card or changing my phone number
It just works seamlessly in those other countries
If you're gonna use the phone just domestically you might want to do a little bit more research
Google 5 doesn't have their own network
they use t-mobile Sprint and a bunch of Google Wi-Fi hotspots to
Give you service
the good thing is if you have a Google phone like a pixel it just seamlessly switches between t-mobile Sprint and the
Google Wi-Fi hotspots based on which one has the best signal and another reason I switched
To Google 5 was there no nonsense
transparent phone plan
the phone plan is a
$20 base fee and then
$10 for each gig of data you use up to 6 gig after 6 gig you don't get charged anymore
So the most your phone bill can be is
$80 and that applies whether you're in the United States or whether you're overseas
If you live in a city like New York like I do there are Google Wi-Fi hotspots everywhere
And my phone is almost always on a hotspot
And so I actually don't use that much data because when I'm at home, I'm on my Wi-Fi network when I'm at work
I'm on my works Wi-Fi network. So this month my phone bill was
$26 because I didn't even use a gig another great thing is
Like I said every gig you get charged $10, but let's say you use 1.5 gigs
you don't get charged for two gig you get charged for 1.5 gig so you'll pay your $20 for your phone bill and
$15 for your data
It's just a great phone service and a couple more things if you get a Google phone
You don't need a SIM card. So your SIM card slot is still open
So if you get overseas and you're using a lot of data
you can go and buy a local SIM card and put it in your phone and Google allows you to switch back and forth between
Google Phi and that local SIM card and
Lastly another great thing is there is no contract
You can pause your service any time you want or you can cancel your service anytime you want
You just go on the Google Phi app you pause it then you don't get charged
So let's say you're overseas and the Google PI network isn't working very well or you go into a country that doesn't have
the Google find network one of the you know
50 countries that don't and you put in a local SIM card
You can pause your Google fly service not get charged then unpause it when you start traveling again. It's a great deal
no contract
It's what I was searching for which is why I switched
To Google Phi even if Google Phi ends up having all its features on iPhone
I still might not go back because I actually kind of like this pixel to be completely honest with you
I didn't even talk about the camera. The camera is ridiculously good
I'll leave a link below to Google Phi so you can do your own research if you sign up by using my link
I think you get $40 off and they like take a certain amount of money. My phone bill
But I don't really care about that
I'm just trying to inform other people of this great network
especially people who are traveling full-time and have to get a new SIM card every country they go to and
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