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[NEW] Blog Post: Phone Recycling

The Call to Recycle: Transforming Old Phones into New Opportunities In an age where technology evolves at lightning speed, most of us have old mobile phones collecting dust in drawers. But what if those forgotten handsets could help reduce waste, sav...

J_PM by Public Mobile
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Top Contributors - Congratulate

Hey Community, Thank you to everyone who contributed to the great conversations this month! We'd like to encourage community members to congratulate other members and share comments under this thread. However, we will keep the Top Contributors announ...

J_PM by Public Mobile
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Email setup

How do you setup your email? I know that you go to setting but how or why do you arrange it.

andlock by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Anyone else using a GrapheneOS?

Just curious if there's anyone else out there. Which version (Android/malloc vs linux-hardened) do you prefer, and why? Which device did you run it on? How did it affect app compatibilities, synthetic benchmarks, real performances? Have you found any...

Korth by Mayor / Maire
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Going on.... Rewards are great 😊

The reason many of us stick with Public Mobile is due to the 4 reward systems. August 3rd is my next renewal which will make 14 months for a zero out of pocket bill. Need to earn $18 from the community forums to be covered till 2021. Just curious on ...

Jb456 by Mayor / Maire
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Humour and other misc. stuff - TAKE TWO

Quote from the now closed Topic - Humour and other misc. stuff:“The topic will be closed as well due to the fact that bravos, that are used for our internal bonuses to our customers, are being earned for jokes that are not related to giving cellphone...

Shaw Mobile ?

What. https://mobilesyrup.com/2020/07/27/shaw-mobile-wireless-brand-july-30th/ Soo.. R they just gonna forget about Freedom.

BearFBI by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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Refer a friend credit.

Hi. Could anyone recommend some good sites to post reference codes to get the 'refer a friend' credit? Thanks. 

Alexbear by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Need my password pin

Hey there I just need my pin password I was trying to move to chatr with my old phone number they said I have to have my pin password and I don’t my pin password   plz call me back this is my phone number *********** Edited by ShawnC to remove number

Sacdiyo123 by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Down to Earth

Have anyone watched this "Down to Earth" show? Is it interesting to you? In my opinion, it is a very interesting one!I would say that it is totally different than other travel shows. I learnt a lot and enjoyed it! 

Kevin89 by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Switching over

Today I finally took the step of signing up for public Mobile!! Off to a great start and going to enjoy half the price phone bill. Excited to sign up friends and family  

Savebig2 by Great Citizen / Super Citoyen
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Bravo showing selected and unselected?

Hi All, When i have Bravoed a post it is coloured in now...was this like this before, or am I just noticing it?    Here is what it looks like when I have not bravoed a post. 

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esjliv by Mayor / Maire
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Do you customize your phone?

I'm really not sure where to ask this  I know the general idea of customizing a phone is changing icon packages, changing fonts, adding widgets (who does this? I know no one), and making your home screens look whatever way that strikes your fancy. I ...

B12 by Great Citizen / Super Citoyen
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Does 10-10-620 long distance work for us?

Hi everyone, I found this long distance service that works with various cell providers including Telus.  It's only $1 per call to the United States and was wondering if it works for us.  I'm thinking yes because it works for Telus (which is our backb...

Cosmos411 by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Comet Neowise

Went to look at the comet Neowise tonight. I could barely make it out underneath the Big Dipper. If you have a chance go see it, as it will be close to 6800 years before it comes by again. Here is one of the pictures I took.

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JoyLuck by Mayor / Maire
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What cellphone do you have?

What cell phone did you choose & why? I have the Samsung Galaxy Note 10+. My wife lost her phone so I gave her my old phone, then bought this one for myself. It was on sale & heavily discounted as it's a refurbished model. Working well so far. I want...

bluejaywpg by Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle
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The Fast and The Boring

Am I the only one who can't stand to watch this franchise? It is just so boring. The best part of the entire franchise is that CinemaSins from YouTube "sins" it and even that can be hard to watch. https://youtu.be/1gElet5V6jQ How in the heck is there...

B12 by Great Citizen / Super Citoyen
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Why is Canada so expensive for cell service?

I hate that I visited Iceland, New Zealand, & Australia in the last 2 years & for $30-35 CAD I got 5 GB of 4G data plus nationwide phone service in each of those 3 countries. In fact, the Australian provider gave a bonus 30 GB! We sure don't get the ...

bluejaywpg by Model Citizen / Citoyen Modèle
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Service Passes

I accidentally erased/deleted my text message links for a service pass for more data. The only way you can get a data service pass it seems is by a direct link from Lucky Mobile?

lonniecc by Great Neighbour / Super Voisin
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Koodo ditched their call center for Callback support ?

I was browsing around koodo's site and I went to the support page. The support page only showed an option to chat with "Q" (Basically SIMON but for Koodo).  There was no option to call Koodo or live chat with them. If you talk to Q and ask to speak t...

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BearFBI by Deputy Mayor / Adjoint au Maire
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Humour and other misc. stuff

It's gotten a bit stale around here, so I thought maybe we could use some humour, so post your funny pics, your jokes, anecdotes, or even some nice vintage phone pics( I'm lookin' at you @AE_Collector  ), or whatever else floats yer boat.

CFPartDeux by Town Hero / Héro de la Ville
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How do I know what games I can run on my laptop?

I started playing Halo 2 as an example, my specs:i5-3317U @1.7GHzRAM 6GBIntel HD Graphics 4000 Video RAM 32MB Do not meet the minimum requirments, yet the game runs smoothly on it's highest graphic settings, so how do I really know what games I can p...

sahands by Great Citizen / Super Citoyen
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Luddite's 5 years with the community!

 @Luddite Amazing!!! I can't imagine how many people he helped over the course of 5 years including myself watched and learned a lot of things from him and others (RIP @Martin). On top of this, he continuously engaged with the PM team as part of the ...

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NDesai by Oracle
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How do I port over to Koodo?

Hey guys, I am pretty new at this, and I apologize if this had been asked already. I am currently with Public Mobile for the really old promo plan ($120/3mths for 12GB total), however now I am looking to switch over to Koodo as I am finding that an a...

cyhoiii by Good Citizen / Bon Citoyen
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Three year anniversary

I finally hit the three year anniversary at Public Mobile. Whoohoo! To kick things off, I poured myself a glass of brandy, and pocket the extra savings of $3 bucks in my pocket...all kidding aside, I raise my glass to Public Mobile, the only company ...

mpcdesign by Mayor / Maire
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