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it's not sexy it's not cool it's not fun but someday it might just save your life I'm Juan Carlos bag now for pocket now and here's a quick review of the AT&T spare one emergency backup phone this will be a quick review because there's not a lot here to actually review now we obsess over metrics like screen on time and battery life but in an emergency how long might your phone last if there's no power can you get your phone recharged I live in an earthquake prone state and we keep emergency bags in each car as we have medical equipment we need to keep powered I've stocked those with batteries solar chargers and a hand-crank radio charger but even for us if we need to quickly call 9-1-1 we can't rightfully wait for the sun to juice up our phone battery this is where spare one comes into play this is a no frills backup phone to help you quickly contact your family or emergency responders the set up is powered by a pair of double-a batteries and those two batteries are good for up to 10 hours of talktime and up to 10 days of standby time store the phone with an eight pack of double a's and you could conceivably keep it running for over a month options on the spare one are pretty simple we get a dialer pad hang up in call buttons and a volume toggle which cycles between the earpiece and a speakerphone there's no screen for information here but we do get some fancy technologies an LED flashlight can help you see things in the dark and these holes here are perfect for a lanyard or wrist strap okay that's a joke but there is also a low-power GPS receiver onboard and that ties into some pretty cool server-side features when you set up the phone you can create an account with AT&T where you can designate up to five Guardians and which emergency services number you want to use if you need to contact someone specifically instead of just hitting 911 now pressing this red button here will automatically dial that emergency number and contact your Guardians via text and email the GPS radio will track the last-known position of the phone making you easier to find if there's a problem and all of this information is easily managed through the account you set up online the spare one costs $60 and has its own special AT&T go phone plan twenty-five dollars a year gives you one hundred and twenty minutes of talk time that's not bad for a year of backups service and that includes the Guardian contacts in GPS location but if you just want something to make phone calls you can always use the SIM card in your main phone and spare one even has a little slot to hold a nano to micro SIM card adapter plus there's enough room in this casing to keep a pin tool if your main phone requires one it's a peace of mind solution knowing you always have some way of communicating or calling for help you hope you'll never have to use it but if you do need it at some point it'll be sixty dollars well spent as always thanks so much for watching be sure to subscribe to this channel for more reviews like these and hit that thumbs up button for a little extra positive reinforcement for pocket now I'm Juan Carlos bag now you can chat me up on Twitter and Instagram is some gadget guy and I will catch you all on the next review