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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by domain.com what's going on everyone John Rhett enger' from TechnoBuffalo usually when I do in boxing's I have a general idea what to expect this one I have no idea what this is going to be so in this nexus 9 looking box I have the Welcome kit for Google's project Phi and here I've got a SIM card for project Phi and this is the Nexus 6 currently the only device a project is going to work with your PI saying to yourself self what is project Phi and the answer is it's Google's take on the cell carrier what they did was took kind of a novel approach they partnered with Sprint and t-mobile and when you pop your project via SIM card into your Nexus 6 as you move around your Drive it's going to pull down the signal which network is better at that time so you're driving in Sprint's got a stronger signal you'll be pulling down Sprint's Drive a little farther t-mobile's bet you'll be pulling down a t-mobile signal it's going to combine all that with open hot spots to be able to give you supposedly the best cellular signal called fidelity and data speeds that are available so using open Wi-Fi does sound a bit of lis sketchy Google is saying that everything on your phone is going to be totally encrypted so take that for what it's worth so this boils down to you're really getting the best of what Wi-Fi calling can do for you what sprit networks can do for you and what t-mobile's network can do for you all without you having to do anything just pop in a SIM card and go on your way let's go ahead and take a look at what's in the Welcome kit look at the SIM card with your pricing because Google is really trying to simplify things what they're trying to do is not become the biggest cell carrier in the world are trying to change way people think about cell carriers think about what Google did with project fiber they launched really high speed data in very select markets certainly not everybody had access to it but what it did do was a push competitors like 18 team verizon softer offer faster and faster data speeds so what they're hoping this is going to do is push t-mobile Sprint Verizon and AT&T to offer more streamlined pricing and better services hopefully that trickles down we'll see if this has any effect on a big industry at all but without further ado let's this is all about alright so here is the box for the project 5 welcome kit they must have just reused old Nexus 9 boxes and I'm trying really hard to not say project fee you can make a drink game out of this how many times John says project fee you can go ahead and take a take a shot alright so it's sort of embossed on the top project by and this is what you're going to have inside of a welcome kit I should say we didn't pay anything for this just kind of just showed up when we signed up so turn air drum solos we got a nice really nice-looking pair of headphones with an extra 3.5 port so you can share with your friends so we got that here and we've got 100% all-natural juice for your phone to external battery case you can take some extra juice and even phones need hugs I don't this must be a case for it you can keep your phone nice and save Google's trying to be all cute so that's just going to come in there nothing overly exciting we'll take a look at all that stuff though I will show you what's in there a little bit later here is the very fancy SIM card that Google has designed this where a lot of Technology is and it's going to look I'm guessing just like regular SIM card so there's a they really give you a paper clip who bought the SIM card not even messing around anything else which is a straight up paper clip who was really trying to again redefine the mobile industry and they tried to do it very simple pricing that's what this is going to be $20 for unlimited calling and texting and then it's $10 per gigabyte after that but you're going to get refunded what you don't use even if you only use 400 megabytes you know you'll get the extra 600 put back and it would be a credit on your account of about six dollars so you're only paying for what you're using at a base point of ten dollars per gig you can use international data as well there's no charge you go to 120 pre-approved countries for international texting if you want to make calls internationally it's going to be 20 cents per minute so we'll go ahead and pop out the SIM card really just a straight-up paper clip will pop this in and see what happens with the setup process is like and hopefully can demonstrate project fie not see now you guys wanted to have a sip you got an idea for next great website domain comm has you covered they want hook you up with a great offer save 20% on domain names and web hosting when you use coupon code TechnoBuffalo that's all capital letters one word at domain coms check out I think domain names think domain.com I just coincides with a project by app so I'll go and open on sucker up right now nothing showing as for our signal strength activating project Phi we'll go ahead and select the account all right so we're all set up it took us about two minutes to get all paired up and working and now we are showing the fine network right there let's go ahead and just check from actually keep Wi-Fi connected make a phone call and see how it works we'll just dial a random wait on the number so it's totes now it's via Wi-Fi calling that's now we're just using either sprint to t-mobile we have no idea which one I did go through it didn't dial it right number at least you can see that it works so this is project fine as it stands you're not really going to notice much of a difference you able to make phone calls as you would it'll get data like you would assume but you'll get even faster speeds and you would getting if you were just on Sprint or just on t-mobile how to compared 18 T's and variety standalone networks can depend on where you live but as it is right now to get the best of serve all three worlds those two carriers and Wi-Fi some pretty cures to try it put it through its paces CL performs and use it like I would any other phone again it's currently only available for a nexus 6 if you have one you already step in the right direction if you don't have one you pick one up you can pick one up on Craigslist or Ebay or just buy one new I'm bill to get your hands on project five and any questions or things you guys want to know about project 5 let us know until next time John render from TechnoBuffalo talk to you guys next video buh-bye