Project Fi - A Few Months Later

A lot of people liked my blog back in August of this year about my brief experience with Project Fi.  I thought I would post an update.

This will be pretty brief, but feel free to ask questions too.  In short, I still love it!  The service is great, but not perfect, just like any other carrier.  I have found the coverage maps online to be accurate.
This month, I switched to a lower plan.  I haven't been using nearly as much data as I thought I would; and thanks to how Fi bills, I haven't paid a cent for that unused data.

Google has added two new devices to the officially supported list; Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P.  I haven't tried these out, but a lot of people that I know seem to really like the 6P.  I've been using my Nexus 6 by Motorola until this past weekend.  I just switched to a Moto X Pure Edition.  This device half ass works with Project Fi and it is not officially supported.  I just really like this phone a lot and had one laying around so I thought I'd try it out.  MXPE treats the Fi sim like a standard T-Mobile sim.  It calls, tests, does data on TMO's network without issue.  It DOES NOT, however, connect to Sprint at all or do the auto-connect Wi-Fi thingy that makes Fi so awesome.  So...it's basically like I'm on T-Mobile but being billed differently.  We'll see how it does.  I really so like this phone a lot and I wasn't a huge fan of Nexus 6.  The code name for that was Shamu for a reason.

Google also recently added data only sims to its offerings.  They will give you up to nine for free.  There are a few tablets that are officially supported to work with them  (Nexus, iPad, etc.) but Google says that these sims will work in many other unlocked phones, laptops, and tablets that can connect to T-Mobile's network.  There is no additional charge to use more devices on your account!  They just pull from your same bucket of data.  How cool is that?  I ordered one of the sims just so I'd have it in case I needed it.  I don't have a compatible laptop or tablet right now.

Google has continued with the free gifts too.  I got Legos as a Christmas gift that I could build into a phone stand or a cable organizer!  I made the stand because it looks cooler, but haven't really been using it.  I'll probably build the cable organizer later this week.

All in all, Project Fi still works great for me.  It is still an open beta.  It's not perfect, but I'm happy.