Hi Jonathon, Thanks heaps for the info. Just clarifying, when a family goes to facetime me, I think an alert comes up asking which contact they want to facetime? I'm guessing they can just select my email or I could send them my UK and US numbers and they can facetime those instead? As I don't have my email set up on the phone. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mosen Sent: Saturday, 4 May 2013 5:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Using the iphone overseas
Hi Andrew, personally, I'd pick up a local sim in the country you're in, and go right on using the iPhone at local rates. In the US and UK there are good iPhone prepay deals. You can forward calls from your Australian number to your temporary US one, so the only thing you'd be missing out on is texts to your Ausie number. And if most of the people you text also have iPhones, they can iMessage you at your email address when your foreign carrier SIM is in the phone. You'll save a lot of money and it's great to have local data for navigation apps etc. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org On 24/04/2013, at 8:37 PM, Andrew Head <[email protected]> wrote: Hi all, I am from Australia and Later this year, I'm planning to travel to England and America. I am using an iphone 5 running the latest version of IOS, and was just wondering about any useful info I should know about taking and using the phone overseas. I plan to take my old iphone 4 over and put a sim card in that to use for phone calls etc, I prefer to keep the Australian sim right where it is in the iphone 5, so it isn't lost and thought a spare old phone would be put to good use. I'm assuming if I take the iphone 5, I can connect it to a wireless network and continue to use all my other apps, minus the phone of course? Since my original sim is staying in I won't be able to use it over 3 G just wireless? Thanks for any info you can give, Hope you all have a blessed day, Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
