![]() ![]() You could just tether to your "real" phone, too. If you're a Project Fi subscriber, you could even pop a Fi data-only SIM into this thing and it wouldn't cost you anything extra a month, just $60 up front for your own personal LTE Pokedex. ![]() (Coincidentally, I have to say: it's much easier to capture Pokémon with AR mode off, and you don't have to spin around like an idiot every time you start an encounter.) But the GPS is fine, and the phone gets T-Mobile and AT&T LTE. Granted, the AR view doesn't work - the camera viewfinder appears, but it won't place the actual Pokémon in view, so I have to toggle AR mode off. ![]() This was day three with the R1 HD for me (previous post - day one and series intro - here), and it dawned on me that this $60 smartphone might well be the ultimate Pokémon GO burner phone. ![]() I assume some Rioters were out for a Saturday night group Pokewalk.)Īnd of course I was playing some GO on our short walk home, too - using the BLU R1 HD with Prime Exclusive Offers. (As we kept walking, I noticed a couple of Riot Games tees - the office isn't far from where I live. It was at once hilarious and totally uplifting: Pokémon GO is unrepentantly joyful, even if it is a bit silly. just as someone shouted "AWESOME MAGMAR!" clearly, unmistakably, and without the slightest hint of irony. And then I realized there was no event at all. "Oh," I said to my girlfriend, "there must be some kind of event at the studio tonight." As we walked closer, I noticed these weren't the, uh, sort of individuals who I'd expect at a venue like this. On the way back, we spotted a small crowd - perhaps a dozen or so - standing outside of a rather famous recording studio in our neighborhood. Last night, my girlfriend and I walked down the street to have a nice dinner, and on the way there I counted four or five people clearly playing GO (several were walking their dogs). And to an extent that I think Niantic and Nintendo scarcely could have imagined. ![]()
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