Mudgie
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Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?
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Tumble weed
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Nah , it's possible, Its a main phone network provider, you'd still need to pop by for sim card issues and upgrades.
But back when I worked there, you'd have like twenty in an hour come through on a Saturday, not for a day, that's pathetic.
Cue
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Surely this is over the phone or online mostly now too?
Do they have the phones to view? I'd imagine they do. There's also a phone kiosk in Tesco Extra, so people to prefer to examine the phones before they buy.
Not everyone can be at home to accept a phone or have it delivered to their workplace. Mine for example doesn't allow deliveries, although I WFH now.
Cue
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Yep, especially as if you’re getting an iPhone you can get it on 0% from Apple. I worked it out that it’s something like 10-15% more expensive to buy the phone in a contract than locking down a good SIM only and buying the phone separately.
Especially now I only pay a stupidly low £21 for two unlimited text and minute lines with a shared 10gb
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Cue
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Yeah Roaming is a rarity now, thankfully Zevvle do it no questions asked
Cue
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You shouldn’t if you’re using a backup system, when I upgrade it restores everything including settings
That being said, the Android ecosystem is a mess so moving from a Samsung to a HTC may not be as simple
Well if you have a phone with a Qualcomm SOC (most android phones except Google and Samsung) then they only provide 2 years of security fixes and updates. After then your phone will gradually become a security risk.
You can see why Apple, Google and Samsung don't use their chips.
Personally I have a Google Pixel 4XL running CalyxOS. It's a Google-free Android OS with monthly updates and supported much longer than the 2 year limit. Being free of all the Google spyware the battery life is really good. You can still use most apps without issues using the open source Implementation of Google services (Micro G).
Cue
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Up until recently Google was using Snapdragons and only just switched to Tensor, and Samsung still does. Their own chip is a way off and they only use Exonyus for some phones and last I heard were dropping them
Qualcomm are a pain in the ass though, they’re so far behind the Apple A and M chips it’s not even funny - the latest VR HMD chip (XR2) is the equivalent of a 4 year old A-chip. It’s really holding up my industry…
It's because Apple doesn't licence the ARM CPU cores. They only licence the instruction set and produce their own CPU cores which are faster and they can bake in all sorts of other things.
The ARM cores are probably too generic a design, they have to be suitable for low cost, low power embedded use all the way up to phones and single board computers.
That said, the real Apple phone owners seem to grumble about battery life is also down to the phone CPU being powerful.
Cue
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My phone’s 3 years old and still does a full day without issue tbh.
Wormella
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The gym group are opening up a branch in the old PoundStretcher
www.thegymgroup.com
It looks like it comes in at one of the more affordable gyms in the area
The Gym Group Stafford | 24hr Gym
Join our Stafford gym for just £14.99 per month. Discover flexible memberships, free parking and state-of-art equipment and facilities. Get started today!
It looks like it comes in at one of the more affordable gyms in the area
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Gramaisc
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They could save a few bob on signage and call it Pound & Stretch?