garublador
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- May 20, 2013
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What situation are you getting into where you lose the data on your phone and are forced to restore lost data while on a weekend trip up north?I do, at home, but not when I spend weekends up north, where the closest building is a gasbar/convenience store about 2 hours' drive away.
What you're doing is making a straw man argument. You're not arguing with anything I'm saying, you're making up a different argument, quoting me and then arguing against the fake argument you made up. The claim was that we all "need" an SD card to back up our phone data in case of data loss. That happens very infrequently and can almost always wait to be done (or you have no choice but to wait to be done) until you have a broadband connection.
But for that to pertain to what we're talking about it would have to mean they have no access to the internet. Data plans don't matter. We're talking about restoring lost data, which can almost always be done when you have a WiFi connection. I use zero of my mobile data plan backing up data on my phone, so talking about data plans means you don't understand what we're talking about.That is NOT what I wrote. I wrote that "billions of people subjected to flaky data reception and/or extremely limited data plans".
But how do you get all of those apps, music and books on your phone if you have no other backup but a micro SD card. For that to pertain to what we're talking about you would have a very limited data plan, no other storage/computing device and no access to WiFi. Otherwise you'd have access to backup storage that's more reliable than an SD card. Again, you can restore backed up data on a WiFi connection with no need to use a mobile data plan. All we're talking about is restoring backed up data.My phone gets a lot of bandwidth-less use. It's the ultimate deep woods cabin and camp site jukebox and video playback device. It's no tablet, but still, I read books on it. It's also what I use to keep and edit my Journal. My work hours are logged on a spreadsheet which I edit and save on the phone itself. (I don't have a regular office job). I use it to have a read out of my GPS coordinates and use it's compass. I use it to ID vegetation and birds with my botanical and birdwatchers' guides. I also have a folder with a whole bunch of recipes saved from the web, in many deferent formats, including some in video form, so I also use it for cooking. The timer on the phone is also quite sweet for cooking times. It's Notepad is a regular life saver. I also keep a few catalogs of all owned hard copy media, which avoids double purchasing of CD /DVD/ Blu-Ray. I also keep a locally stored "wanted list"; because my Amazon list can be hard to connect to Inside a big shopping center, and HMVs often have better deals than Amazon on the type of titles I like.
But there's WiFi, right? Again, the chances of needing to restore backed up data while in that situation and also without WiFi seem really slim. I travel to places without data reception as well and have never needed any backed up data. In fact, when I'm in those situations I rarely need any data that isn't media. If I did have to restore my phone in that situation I'd just have to live with listening to the radio. That seems like a lot less of a down side than permanently losing all of your data because your SD card got corrupt or broke.From April to October, I spend my weekends camping in out-of-coverage areas. I live in a city of a 3 and a half million people on the east coast. Yet the first "No reception at all" zone I encounter is just 3 hours' drive away. On the 11 hour drive to the city where my parent met, and where 40 thousand people live, there are 3 "data blind" spots and one 2 hour "No reception at all" zone.