Rocking 2 Smartphones - Tips & Tricks?

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#2025189 29-May-2018 21:40

cisconz:

Taking a photo with my work phone while stopped at traffic lights - I thought that was reasonably obvious

And obviously reasonable

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#2025200 29-May-2018 22:21

I've had two phones for the last five years. The work phone basically gets ignored or switched off at 5pm. My biggest frustration is that I listen to music from my personal phone, and get the odd call when I'm in the car (I'm in the car for work a lot), but I occasionally get work calls, but I can only pair one at a time to the car. I've not tried forwarding, my work calls are usually from Oz, so I've got no idea how the billing would work forwarding to personal phone. Do the forwarded calls ring the original handset first, or does it go straight to the second? And how do you know if it's a forwarded call or normal call, IE so I answer a work call appropriately?

Oh and one's Apple and one's Android, so two different chargers.

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#2025202 29-May-2018 22:24

When I had a work phone I forwarded all calls after 5 unanswered rings to my personal phone (with vodafone you just dial a code)

Text/SMS I had an app (can't remember the name) which forwarded it to my personal

I tend to favour FB Messenger as a messaging app now as I can have it on multiple phones and on my PC all at the same time

My work phone was running a hotspot so I could use it's data.

Most of the time it just sat on my desk plugged on hotspotting.

My personal phone is dual sim capable but the work mobile requires special security software (remote wiping etc...) which I don't want on my personal phone otherwise I would have just dual simmed it.

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#2025206 29-May-2018 22:30

Hi, I am rocking two Androids (Huawei Mate 10 Pro & GS8+): one work SIM & one personal, despite both are dual SIM capable, just couldn't bring myself to let go of the 200GB micro SD card on the GS8+ instead of the second SIM, damn these hybrid SIM slots, wish they could go back to the days of independent SIM & SD slots.

My personal SIM is only a prepay so i'd try using the work SIM as much as I can for data.

About 80% of all the apps I use are installed on both.

No syncing of any sort is set up between the phones though, since I encourage my family to save my work number on their phones so i can contact them via both phones and they'd recognise my work#.

It does add a burden to my jeans pocket with carrying an extra phone and sometimes find it to be a hassle having to keep both phones charged up.

My two cents...

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