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Maintaining mobile devices

Maintaining mobile devices

- So now you've got yourself a smartphone. Well, what do you do to actually maintain this device? What the answer is actually, if you have an Apple device, not much. Apple's are pretty good at maintaining themselves. If you have an Android there's a few things you need to take care of. But whether you have an Apple or an Android there is one thing that's always going to be the same. And that is there's only two kinds of cell phones out there. There are CDMA phones, code division, multiple access and then there are what I call GSM phones. It's really easy to tell the difference. GSM phones come with a little sim card and if you get a GSM phone you're usually going get a little sim card and they have to put that in. And then you can actually use the phone. With the CDMAs, they didn't come with a SIM card. Now if you're watching me in Europe or in Africa, or in Asia you're looking at me going, Mike, what is what? CDMA what…

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