Hi everyone,
If you're not making any calls, just put the phone into Airplane Mode. This will stop you making/receive calls and using 3G, but you can still use your apps and wifi.
As long as data roaming is switched off you shouldn't run up any massive bills, but you will obviously still pay roaming fees for any texts you send and calls you send or receive.
I say get yourself a local SIM - should definitely be possible and considering you're there for a while it will be well worth it!
You could get a SIM card for it in each country - but it depends if your phone is locked to your carrier or not. If its locked - you have two options which are to jailbreak it or pay a fee to get it unlocked by your carrier.
I would ask myself - do I need this phone when I'm travelling? If you need to talk to people back home the internet is a wonderful invention - facebook/skype/twitter all help you communicate to those back home. I would ditch the phone if you really weren't going to use it.
I would ask myself - do I need this phone when I'm travelling? If you need to talk to people back home the internet is a wonderful invention - facebook/skype/twitter all help you communicate to those back home. I would ditch the phone if you really weren't going to use it.
These are all things that are handier and more securely done with your own smart-phone if you have one on you Even if you just use your phone to hop onto a free wifi connection, there are a lot of advantages to doing things that way rather than having to find internet cafés everywhere and do all your browsing / chatting with someone else looking over your shoulder.
Of course it makes it a bit easier with your own device, not doubting that. I have travelled with and without them. But I've never found a hostel that hasn't had a few computers or a nearby net cafe where you can shoot off a few emails. There always calling cards. There are always options.
I guess its all down to personally choice. I prefer not to - I would get distracted and I'd find I'd waste time sitting on it trying to get onto whatever. I'm there to see the country not try to talk to people back home. So I prefer not to.
And if you were going to use it solely for skype/facebook - I would probaby suggest a small netbook computer to do that with.
Seems to me a phone's less to lug around than a netbook. It could also be a life saver with maps / travel guide / conversion tools / translation apps all built in. And depending on how fussed you are about the quality of your photos, you could probably leave your camera behind too. So it could save a lot of space too.
Agreed, you don't want it stopping you from enjoying what's right in front of you though!
Yeah - it probably is. But if you are fussed with the quality of the photos then you'll be having to find a net cafe/computer to upload them onto a hard drive/flickr/facebook etc. Or you'll have to keep buying memory cards.
Plus typing's probably a tad easier on a netbook (but I come from a non smart phone background and hate touch screens).
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