EFTM: Solving those WiFi Woes - plus Refurbished phones - good or not?
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I was gobsmacked. I spoke to you on the Tuesday. Thursday afternoon, there's this lovely courier man at my back door with a parcel for me.
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Thank you very much for listening. Thank you for downloading. Great to have your company on the EFTM podcast. We'll get to lots of your calls today. Plenty of people lined up ready to chat. 0477 657 657. Send me a text. We'll get you on the show. Producer Rob will line you up for our next recording session. We've got a few left before we head to IFA in Berlin, hopefully to an Apple event for iPhone 18 and such, and then a little family holiday. So there'll be a gap. You know what I'm saying? That's all to come. But we'll keep punching through as best we can over the weeks ahead. But, yeah, lots of calls coming up on refurbished phones, modems. I think we're going to check back in with Dean. Was it only last week we spoke to Dean about his 500 meg speed internet and the fact that he was getting rubbish speeds through his house?
Dean's already been back in touch, having followed my advice. So we'll see how he's going with that. that. So no matter what your question, whether you want a bit of buying advice or assistance technically, whatever it is, get in touch. I'll try and help you out. You can use the EFTM app. Download that. There's something to win every single week. Right now, the prize is a stunning JBL Party Box 130. That is an awesome speaker that you can absolutely light up your next party with. It's a big beast of a speaker too. This is not mucking around here, folks. The Partybox speakers from JBL are outstanding. It's a $600 speaker. Lights up with great sound to make your next party just absolutely epic. So there's still chances to win that.
That doesn't close until the evening of the 9th of August. So yeah, plenty of great products to win every single week here on EFTM at the EFTM app. Next week, there's a all-in-one, 14-in-one Thunderbolt docking station from D-Link. And that's going to be awesome. The week after that, I know what the prize is, but I can't put it on the website yet. So because the product is embargoed until like the 13th. I think I might have told you this, like the embargo until the 13th and then I can put it on the app. So we're... We're giving away something that is so new, I can't even announce that we're giving it away, which is awesome. So many more weekly giveaways still to come. And that's just a way of keeping you engaged in the EFTM app and hopefully getting notifications of every article we write right here on EFTM.
And one of the articles I wrote this week was about the Ecovacs Goat A2000 robot lawnmower, which was a fascinating upgrade for me because I'd had the Ecovacs original Goat, the G1, We called it Gary. So I've called this one George, George the goat. I started using Seinfeld names for all my robots. I don't know why. Anyway, it's got an edge trimmer, which is like a game changer, right? Now there's a couple of edges of my lawn it's doing a great job on. There's a couple it's struggling on because they've got like bushes near them and so it doesn't – it thinks there's an obstacle there so it goes around the bush so it doesn't actually get to the edge. I need a robot that's going to go, I'm going to ignore that and just drive through and cut this edge.
So look, I'm still going to have to do some whippersnappering, but less, less, which is a win. And it also doesn't require the beacons that the last Ecovacs goat required. You just drive it around the boundary and that's your boundary.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:03–26:07
2
How do I choose a new smartphone to replace a seven‑year‑old Oppo?
26:07–36:36
3
What price range delivers the best smartphone value for non‑power users?
36:36–38:43
4
Which phone models are recommended around $500–$700 for simple use?
38:43–48:48
Speakers
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