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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by audible what's up everyone welcome back there pisode of Rhett endures rest I'm Ernest John Wright injured up this week I want to talk to you about t-mobile's test drive it's been about two weeks since I'm carrier five in a 6.0 when t-mobile invited folks to try their network for a week without really costing them absolutely anything and worryfree so I did it I got an iPhone 5s 17 and I want to share my experience with two mobiles network their devices and how the whole process goes it's going to get started so case you guys are familiar with t-mobile test drive essentially what it is you can go to t-mobile website and once every billing cycle you can get an iPhone 5s loaded with an unlimited data plan that you can try their network and that's it you return the device they take the hold off your credit card and you're done so I wanted to see what it was like I've been with AT&T for they were singular actually so this goes back probably six seven years up until this point but didn't see what email service is all about they've been talking about how good their data is sort of in big metro areas and here in Southern California I would qualify as one they're gonna be a great opportunity to not only document the process of getting the phone but how the experience with t-mobile was and then how it was to return it so I went to the t-mobile slash test-drive page I signed up phone came two days later and it comes in a sort of a weird box and come in like a regular iPhone box but they send you now is an iPhone 5s I got a 32 gig black one now you can't pick the color I don't think you could pick the size either I think it might depend whatever they haven't talked and it showed up inside of the box cuz everything you'd get inside of a regular iPhone box it's all sealed and brand-new but that might change as a program you know gets older and a little bit of plastic was the iPhone 5s like turned it on and that was good to go and that was it it was already activated asked me if I wanted to set up my account on it and that was really it I was kind of off and running so I tried it for the first day in the second day I got a call from t-mobile on that line so ya wanna see how you're going with the test drive if you want to fold your call suite here's how you do it if you want to download apps to sort of do speed tests here are the apps to try so the first thing I did was I ran the speed test everywhere I went I had AT&T phone I had my chemo but I would just be testing like oh cool and it was pretty interesting to see obviously it says totally subjective depending on where you live and that kind of stuff but Southern California t-mobile's down data speeds were really really really fast on average about two times faster than what I was seeing on AT&T general AT&T I'd get anywhere from one megabit down all the way up to maybe nine to twelve highest I got at t-mobile I was regularly seeing speeds up to 36 Dan I know some people get way faster speeds and the folks like in Atlanta and Dallas their ATP speeds are super off the chart on the upload side it was kind of even 18 teams but we're about the same somewhere hovering between two to six on the upside but he's really really fast on the download and I his blanket and lt where it was then I went into my house inside of my house I dropped down to one bar for jeans sometimes if I was lucky I would get two bars of edge which is tough to make phone calls on and sometimes even get the dreaded no service thing up there so I sent the tweet to t-mobile and they gave me an email address email sort of talked about service issues so I did an another email address didn't have my name on it on the outside chance and maybe my name would get recognized I get some special treatment which I didn't want so it was the the t force team they call it so I emailed them said hey yours when I'm problem having here's my address here's a phone number I got an email back almost in an hour saying here's your casing or registering it we're gonna do it we can try to fix your service and was really cool to see obviously don't know that's gonna happen or not the nice thing I guess about t-mobile is they've got Wi-Fi calling iOS 8 will support Wi-Fi calling so presumably as a test drive goes on and iOS 8 comes out on the iPhone 6 it'll be really nice you can just do Wi-Fi calling wherever you are so they're up the video real fast thank our friends at audible you know them you love them you should definitely be using them they are the largest purveyor of downloadable audiobooks things from mystery to romance I'm not gonna judge a fiction nonfiction everything in between this is open your car at the gym on your iPhone or Android device wherever you are you could listen to audible go to audible podcast.com slash check down and get your free audiobook download again that's audible podcast act now and get your free audiobook again whatever about reading now's the perfect time listen to it while you're making your daily commute back to the video so you guys are all saying why an iPhone why only knife owned right now it's all t-mobile offers the really only fly see in their test-drive program is that you can't pick the device you want you know an iPhone 5s Mike a different reception than the galaxy s5 or HTC one nice to pick and chemo blast said they will offer other devices the reason that they picked the iPhone they answered this in a Cuban a genuine carrier event was they didn't think people knew they had the iPhone so it really was kind of a PR thing but hey we've got the iPhone you you can have the iPhone here go ahead and try it so the seven days were up I got a text message on the sixth day sing hey you'd return your film tomorrow you could turn it to any sort of t-mobile retail store and I took it back it's actually the first one that it returned test drive phone I took about ten minutes I got a receipt saying I'd returned it hold a second off my car and that was it was a super super schemas experience at the very least you want to think about which into an iPhone you can try an iPhone for a week and see how that experiences and give it a shot there's sort of no risk to you 100 percent charge comes off your card so there's no cost it was a really cool program I think you mobile swing a very nice job with all their uncarrier announcements they've been doing this when that was first time we really wanted to try the service room use it as my daily phone and overall I keep my way pretty impressed so what do you guys think is something you try not try when you want to see change about the test drive program leave in the comments down below and the folks at t-mobile I would guess are probably going to watch this video at least I hope maybe they'll take your comments to heart you guys thank you for watching hope you enjoyed until next time I'm John Ritter from TechnoBuffalo see you guys next video bye thank you guys for 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