A Day (Plus Many More) With Solavei

So far so good. Not sure if everyone's first concern is the fact that it is a prepaid plan or the quality of the voice and data provided, but it seems the consensus is thought that since it is on the T-Mobile towers you will receive the same quality that they provide. Not sure if this is quite the case. Sometimes I feel like the Solavei chip falls into the 3g more often than T-Mobile, then other days I don't. Ultimately it is hard to tell since I have to swap out chips and the process takes a while with out side by side testing of the two chips. At least I am able to test the exact same phone with all the same settings, apps and such. Overall call quality and data has been fine. I'm a heavy phone user, but not sure I would be classified as a power user. I average about 3 to 4 gigs of data a month. Since I'm knowingly trying to test out Solavei I may just be over using it a bit more than usual but speeds seem to keep up when I go to my favorite sites: espn, engadget, and androidandme ( your favorite porn sites will probably use up more data than these, not suggesting my readers watch porn, just mentioning a theory). Youtube runs good with little to no buffering.

I'm overall satisfied with Solavei. I don't use voice often if at all, possibly 50 minutes a month on average with hardly ever topping 100. Being with T-Mobile myself already and Solavei being on the same towers there is little to no difference in the quality for me. Where the difference comes in is the cost. Switching to Solavei is going to save my wife and I mucho dollares. With fear of T-Mobile's potential new plans I have started saving up my android income and hopefully can start dropping contracts in the next few months. Solavei is criticized as being a pyramid scheme and wrongfully so since a scheme would mean that there is no product or service. With Solavei there is a service and it is actually just as good as the others out there, but cheaper and with a potential to make money. I don't want to sell anyone on making money with it. Sure you can if you are the business sabby individual that wants to put their full time into it, but I want to suggest it to you for the cheap cell phone service that it is. If you are not bound by contract give it a try, if you are bound forget this article and move on. If I never recruit anyone, that's fine I still have unlimited everything for $50 a month. If I can get 3 people to join and stay with it, then I got unlimited everything for $30 a month. Should have cut down the article to the last two sentences and been done, nuff said.

Give it another check: www.solavei.com/jonbze

Solavei

I'm giving Solavei a test run. I've been intrigued by the service for a few months and finally got the sense to go for it. Whether you've heard of it or not I'm going to go over it below. I've been contemplating breaking contract with T-Mobile for well over a year now and almost did last year when I got anxious for a new phone. So instead I upgrade for two more years to get the HTC One S. Shortly after doing so I found the Solavei service and regretted the upgrade.

First off, it's a cell phone service. Unlimited everything for $49 a month, plus tax. It's a non-contract prepaid plan. So far all of this is pretty conventional for unlimited prepaid mumbo jumbo. If all you want is a cheap unlimited service than go no further, but what seems to set this apart from other companies is the chance to earn money back. Set up like a pyramid scheme, each user gets a chance to make money off each other user they sign up for the service, and then each user they sign up and so on. Yea, some businesses get in big trouble and immediately are labeled as a scam, but this service is actually something people use. Who do you know that doesn't own a cell phone? How many of your buddies have a phone with out a data plan? Which of the four post paid companies are you shelling out loads of cash to?

Again, this is a cheap plan with the potential to earn money. The service uses T-Mobile bands and since I already know they provide good service in the area I'm going to assume that my same phone will do just fine, but I guess that's why I'm giving it a test run first. However, even if the voice quality is poor I will probably continue to use the service. I hardly talk on the phone, so unlimited calling is surely useless for me, but my wife will probably take advantage. I'm probably going to stick with the service through any potential issues they may have as long as I'm making some extra cash. Like a cheap app with ads, I'm willing to put up with more due to my cheap ways.

So, to sum it up. I'm testing out a cheap cell phone service called Solavei. With it I'm not going to have to worry about contracts, going over minutes data or messages, or spending way too much money. If you want to find out more about the service you can either email me or head over to my sign up page.

Oh, and encase you might care, I have been working on a major update for Colors by Numbers! Don't hold your breathe (because you may pass out) but I'm hoping it will come out soon. Thought I should let people know I'm still in the developing game, just took another one of my long ass hiatuses!

Rollin'

No rockin' just rollin' with the updates. Implementing Tap for Tap all over the place. Dropping Appflood and Admob, not because I don't like them, but because Tap for Tap is doing everything these days, between adding a revenue service and actually being taps for taps now instead of views for views. Colors by Numbers lost Scoreloop and gained Swarm. Finally, my favorite! I have added Kiip to Colors by Numbers. A fun add-on that allows for prizes in apps. So now I have Colors fully loaded, achieve high scores and win many items from mp3s to Skittles. Taste the Rainbow folks, TASTE IT!

Jonbze the app

Finally!! I posted my website app. I have played back and forth with various ideas for a personal promotion app. I originally made one that was paid, hoping it would be a donation app that people could purchase if they were happy with my other apps. Either people were too cheap, or my early apps were not that good... I'm actually thinking the latter myself, although Android users are known to be cheaper, you bastards. You can head to the Play Store here to download it if you like.

Next step is to finish up the Irvington Garden Club app that I have also been working on. Think that I am done with it soon. After getting stuff straight I figured out more efficient builds for using html. You can read my previous post to catch more on all that. Unless you don't want to...

After posting the Irvington app and getting it all set and purty for the site, I will then update the Bze app again to include this app.

Then I will finish up the final touches on Colors by Numbers. I have made many updates including changing Scoreloop to Swarm, but am again considering another change with some recent ad services I have found. In the meantime I will continue to incorporate Swarm. And update you with all that BS in the post after I finish this step. Again after fixing up Colors with a possible name change I will update the Bze once again.

Once those steps are all done, there may or may not be some updates to Recent Call Log and Home Screen Call Logs. If there are then I will have to update Bze AGAIN! If there are no changes then hopefully I can then get back to work on something I have had under development for a bit and am extremely excited about and hopefully some close folks to me will also be excited. Top Secret here peeps.

As always and forever thanks for all the support and the negativity, I'm making money from both all the same! So boo ya!

Distracted again?

Wow, I am easily distracted in my old age... Again I have been off and on with the developing of Android apps. Recent inspiration was due to some new app ideas including an app version of my website. Only to again be distracted by an immense laziness to find a cheap or possibly free (yes still a cheap ass fool) way to quickly build the app that would display my blog. I am not happy with many them, most look as cheap as they are and the nicer ones cost about how they look. A quick list of the ones that I visited and created various website apps (hold on have to go through the mass of emails that hold my various new account info): mobile by Conduit, Andromo, ShoutEm, AppsGeyser, buzztouch, PhoneGap, Infinite Monkeys, Magmito, iBuildApp and many others, but I tire of finding them all so Google online app makers if you want more. Eventually I somehow wound all the way around to downloading the Appcelerator software, it was not what I thought it was... at all. So, I am uninstalling the program as I write up this post. I had really wanted to work on my applications tonight, but my computer space was feeling cluttered in and around my computer. I am cleaning up unused software and clearing unused crap off the hard drive. The tidy computer nerd in me loves to clean out the good ol' hard drive while having idle hands (was that an innuendo). Some may find this to be yet another distraction from getting down to business, but any step toward a goal is a step in the right direction. It's a better step than cleaning out emails, which I just caught myself doing.

What did I choose you ask? Ha, who am I kidding. I'm sure you don't even care, but I will tell you anyway. I have found that I not only love to hear myself talk but also love to read my own writing... I've sorta choose none of them. If I put any of them to use it will probably end up being PhoneGap, but only through a library package that I have been using in Eclipse. Ultimately it lets me redirect Android activities to html documents saved within the application. This add-on has been fun to play with, but it is also frustrating me because it has a long load time for display every time I re-open the app. Also, as I play with the coding I just found that PhoneGap doesn't do crap for me other than change a few lines of code, delay my app, and add a butt load of permissions that the user has to agree to and then bitch at me as to why there are so many damned permissions.

Finally, the ultimate reason for me to make the app from scratch is for complete customization including gosh darn ads!! Yea, just what you want to hear, my main reason is to implement those annoying ads. For me, the most frustrating thing about trying out the online app makers was the inability to show my own ads. My intentions for the apps was for added revenue more than anything. I do want to make this more than a past time after all. Since I am discussing ads, I would like to point out the new pushtab system I got going on the site. Saw this on another site and was extremely intrigued with the uses on my site. I am always looking for inspiration to get on this blog more often and hope this will give me some. I will start adding new features that will allow you to earn gift cards, so look out for them.

This mad dash for an easy method to build apps did nothing more than help me come to the conclusion that I can do better by myself and opened my eyes to possible revenue streams. By the way, how the hell did I get to this site. Thanks for all the continued support and look for a few new Jonbze apps to hit the Android Play Market!