It's Thursday People Get Snappy LOL

cd34 · 2010-09-30, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by bluebrit

iphone to do it due to overly expensive roaming fees.

Buy a prepaid SIM from one of the local providers and slap it in the phone. Have a safe trip.

Spent the day working on a ton of cleanup on some code I wrote about three months ago. Can't figure out what I was thinking at the time.

Hope everyone has a good Thursday.

Cleo · 2010-09-30, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by cd34

Buy a prepaid SIM from one of the local providers and slap it in the phone.

The iPhone is locked so you can't use other SIM cards.

cd34 · 2010-09-30, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Cleo

The iPhone is locked so you can't use other SIM cards.

I guess that makes sense why it is $35 to unlock it for TMobile.

Might still be cheaper than international roaming - and he's on Rogers (I think) which is a little different than AT&T.

Cleo · 2010-09-30, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by cd34

I guess that makes sense why it is $35 to unlock it for TMobile.

Might still be cheaper than international roaming - and he's on Rogers (I think) which is a little different than AT&T.

If I was to travel to another country I would probably turn off cellular data on my iPhone and use Skype or one of the other VoIP apps and then buy a cheap prepaid phone for when I was out of WiFi range.

Then again I do still own my old 3G iPhone and that one is pretty easy to jailbreak...

cd34 · 2010-09-30, 08:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Cleo

If I was to travel to another country I would probably turn off cellular data on my iPhone and use Skype or one of the other VoIP apps and then buy a cheap prepaid phone for when I was out of WiFi range.

TMobile is announcing UMA - not sure which phones will support it, but, routing calls to your number over wifi. Still costs the airtime, but, allows people that aren't within range of a cell tower, or in a building where reception is bad -- or in a foreign country near a wifi hotspot to still get their calls.

I would suppose that the other carriers may follow suit in mid to late 2011.

ArtWilliams · 2010-09-30, 06:49 PM

As a Canadian, this is something I want to investigate Bluefire Wireless. Fifty US dollars gets you an American and UK number. They claim you can save up to 70% compared to your telecom's roaming fees.

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Originally Posted by cd34

I guess that makes sense why it is $35 to unlock it for TMobile.

Might still be cheaper than international roaming - and he's on Rogers (I think) which is a little different than AT&T.

MeatPounder · 2010-10-01, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Cleo

The iPhone is locked so you can't use other SIM cards.

Well there was nothing special to make me crave the new iphone over my 3gs enough to do a new contract with AT&T, so when my contract ended this summer I jailbroke my phone and went to t-mobile...so I could put another countries sim in no problem