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The Phone Balance Challenge: Day 3


This is my phone balance as of 7am this morning.
At last, a decrease. $38.23 to be exact.
Mainly due to streaming Bassdrive for most of the day. This did seem to be an efficient method to drain my balance, but not too great (it cost me maybe $24 for 6 hours of streaming i think).
I also installed SymTorrent for my phone, and after many failed attempts at downloading and installing, it finally worked (note, if anyone has a Nokia e series phone, certificate signing is pretty strict, so you need to turn it off). But downloading torrents over 3g doesn't work...after getting my hopes up...maybe torrent sharing is blocked by 3, as I got it to work via wi-fi.... Anyway, I've had to settle for streaming. Anything. It sort of goes against the rules I set though. I don't actually get to keep what I stream. I tried recording what I was listening to but no joy. 
And there's another limitation which is also pretty frustrating: battery life. I was downloading and streaming yesterday (as well as calling and texting) from 8am. By 5pm I was getting low battery warning beeps. By 10pm though my phone still functioned and I was able to text and surf the web.
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  1. Chris B4 November 2010 at 22:40

    Mate you must have a lot of free time on your hands! We need more photos of food from over there!!

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  2. Kris6 November 2010 at 23:24

    Photos of food??? Haha hmmm, ok, i'll see what i can do!
    Basically i have 2 hours free each day as my journey to work is an hour long. It's also 95% over ground, which gives me a lot of time to play with my phone.

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