I'm here visiting my inlaws. They are great. It is amazing here. Lately, the days have been partly cloudy, warm, breezy, simply delightful. Here are a couple pics from a day out shopping. All of these pictures were taken and processed with an old, discontinued Google Nexus 4 phone, running a rooted Android 4.4.4 Kitkat OS. Despite the "triple-death 4's" this is an amazing OS which does everything we need, and then some.
While traveling, we are experimenting with T-Mobile's new $100/mo friends and family plan for 4 phones, which includes international roaming and unlimited free international data, in over 140 countries. It's working great so far. The data is slow but the coverage is decent. Gone are the days of scrambling upon arrival to:
(1) Get local cash
(2) Ask locals which SIM card brand is best
(3) Buy a SIM card
(4) Configure and test the pay-as-you-go SIM
(5) Enter the new numbers into our burgeoning address books
(6) Reconfigure WhatsApp to use the new numbers
(7) Update friends/family/website with the new number.
Now we just turn the phone on and go.
The results? Not tooooo shabby.
The following pics were taken, processed, uploaded to the cloud, and emailed all from the phone and the free data plan. BTW the subway here, called the MTR, has cell phone coverage underground and in the cars.
While traveling, we are experimenting with T-Mobile's new $100/mo friends and family plan for 4 phones, which includes international roaming and unlimited free international data, in over 140 countries. It's working great so far. The data is slow but the coverage is decent. Gone are the days of scrambling upon arrival to:
(1) Get local cash
(2) Ask locals which SIM card brand is best
(3) Buy a SIM card
(4) Configure and test the pay-as-you-go SIM
(5) Enter the new numbers into our burgeoning address books
(6) Reconfigure WhatsApp to use the new numbers
(7) Update friends/family/website with the new number.
Now we just turn the phone on and go.
The results? Not tooooo shabby.
The following pics were taken, processed, uploaded to the cloud, and emailed all from the phone and the free data plan. BTW the subway here, called the MTR, has cell phone coverage underground and in the cars.
Later in the day, I went on a bus ride to an outer "suburb." Even a less-crowded part of Hong Kong has "only" 40-story buildings. :) The pics below were taken from the upper level of a double-decker bus. Super fun.
Cute, fuzzy, super-fluffy, white dog hanging out on a walkway overpass.
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