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A bit of help please, I bought an app but accidentaly deleted it before I synced with my pc, do I have to pay again or if I follow thw buy / password procedure, will it already see it as bought, it wasn't cheap, £7.49, not expensive either but don't want to pay again if I don't have to :(

TIA

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AFAIK, you can just download it again for free.

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Thats what I thought, thanks, don't know if I will bother, it's a prog called quickoffice mobile, thing is you have to forward the email plus attachments in order to edit the attachment, not ideal, anyone got a better app, preferably for free ?

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I'm having some problems just recently with my iPhone whereby I'll make a call and when I'm ready to end it, the screen is off and I can't access it to end the call. It seems to take endless pressing of the home button or sleep button twice and it eventually comes back to life. Has anyone experienced anything like this?

I've got the latest software and I've reset it in the ways mentioned in this thread.

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I sometimes experience the screen being unresponsive, I touch the 'on' button at the top of the phone quickly. This tends to restore it and also ends any calls your on.

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I have also had the unresponsive screen, though usually happens when I want to swipe to answer a call...which is no great loss as it goes to voicemail. I usually have to do the reset key presses to get a full reboot and then all is well. I wonder whether its due to the phone not releasing memory properly as it only does it to me when ive been running games and other RAM intensive stuff.

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I get that as well sometimes :(

I did find once that my touchscreen was unresponsive because there was sweat on it. Once I wiped it I could use it again.

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Seems like its a common problem then, i'll persevere then ;)

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I have had this a couple of times too...

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Major iPhone exploit found - can allow hackers to take over your phone.

http://gizmodo.com/5325703/iphone-sm...to-be-hijacked

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That hijack sounds like bull to me.

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An SMS exploit was mentioned a few weeks ago...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07...phone_sms_bug/

http://www.ismashphone.com/2009/07/w...or-iphone.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...SMS-patch.html

Apple know about it, & it will be patched...

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As it has been:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07...ability_patch/

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Downloading it now, it's nearly 300Mb :erm:

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Updated mine earlier :)

iPhone OS updates are always the full OS image, so even though this is a minor update, it still involves downloading & installing the entire OS.

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Really? Wow, wasn't aware of that - thanks for clearing that up :)

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It crashed.....my iPhone is now apparently in 'restore' mode and I can't do anything until I've restored it through iTunes.

Apparantly it's currently erasing all media from the phone.....oh joy :(

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Oh dear :(

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I haven't got a clue how much of the data (contacts, photo's, applications, application settings) are included in the backup/restore :(

Anybody happen to know?

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All the contacts, photos and apps anyway. Not sure about the settings but when I got my replacement it seemed exactly as it was once the new one had been restored from the backup.

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Thanks for that - give me some hope at least :( :tu:

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When I restored my 3GS with the backup of my 3G, it seemed pretty much identical. Had to give it my email password, IIRC, but everything else was there: media, apps, email account, contacts, etc.

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It'll be reet Rob. The backup just makes a copy of the phones HDD , much like Norton Ghost for the PC. The restore from backup wipes the HDD to remove the cockup and then reinstalls a good version.


Let us know how i goes

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Thanks for your support in this difficult time guys :)

The restore is complete and everything seems to be ok :tu:

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I've just had same problem as Rob M :(

The software update to fix the sms security problem started well, then it stopped, and ever since it's been saying i need to restore as its stuck in recovery mode.

I say okay fine restore, an it does somthing with the phone for a few mins, an then comes up with the error 1604. and i can't restore it.
Have just been on a mad internet rush looking up 1604 an fixes, but its not working! :(

Any help??

(my 1st apple product, an yet this feels like something a microsoft product would do:))

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Have you tried telling iTunes to reset the iPhone and then doing the restore?

Also, have you tried rebooting the computer before trying to do the restore?

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It still wasn't working on my PC after rebooting, however i just tried it on my sisters laptop, and it restoed it with no probs :)

Thanks though.

I only just got the phone so had only added a few contact etc. although there was 1 picture i took i really liked that was lost :( does itunes back it up somehow?

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Nice one.

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It does.

Connect it to your computer now and tell it to do the restore, that should restore the backup that's in your iTunes.

Hopefully :erm:

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I'm looking to sell my iPhone 3G, 1 year old, to a family member. I don't want to rip anyone off, can anyone that isn't biased! i.e. me!...let me have any guide price suggestions.

iPhone 3G
1 year old
16GB
Black
No nasty damage just normal wear and tear


Ideas?


(p.s. I managed to get out of my O2 contract due to a balls up by them!...so I'm on contract with no contract end date, well...it shows the last one I had, which was in 2007! :D )

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I would say anything from about 250-320 is a good price if it's working and with the box etc, I guess an average price of roughly 280 via eBay, but obviously you would have the hassle with fees and paypal, so 250 is a good cash deal. And as it's a family member, maybe a bit of a discount - if your feeling generous.

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You could get up to £200 going via one of the mobile selling websites, more via eBay etc. I know someone who sold theirs for £250.

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Always difficult selling to a family member, I am in the same boat except mine is 8 gig, everything else is the same. We have agreed a price, my reasons for getting shot, as much as I like the iphone, the limits on what I can install and where and when have finally done my head in.

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Has anyone got the WiFi working on these phones yet lol.

Sorry, its a small gripe.. but I have an iPhone and iTouch. Both devices obtain a 169 ip automatically. Forgetting the network and turning WiFi off dosnt help.

I got it working by giving them static IP's and entering the DNS and router settings. Shouldnt really have to do that to be fair. I can get my laptop, wii, psp, ds and sony ericsson on line with no problem, but these apple devices are just a pain in the rear lol.

that all said.. its a brilliant phone and im still getting used to my purchase :)

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Yep. my iPhone has worked fine on all the wireless networks I have tried.

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Mine too, never had a problem. Picks them up when I request them and remembers when I return :tu:

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Wifi on the iPhone - is "unstable" constant dropping blah blah..

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Never had problems with the stability either. Apart from at work, but we work in an old building with walls that are in places 4 feet thick. All devices that use radio (be they WiFi or whatever) have trouble obtaining a reliable signal.

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I am sure, it's not the iPhone though, it seems to be at Key minutes, you're just about to login to facebook and then the wifi drops..

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Indeed, I've also never had a problem with my touch or my iphone 2 / 3g on wifi. Not just on my home network but when I'm out and about.

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I agree with Thomas, Stuart, and sb - my iPhone 3G remembers previously connected wifi networks, and links to them automatically (both here and abroad).

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My 2G has some issues on My own Wi-Fi connection at home - but thats only due to where the ariel is pointing etc (my setup issues) rather than the phone itself, other Wifi networks work and are remembered correctly all of the time.

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Sorry to go off on a tangent here - but do we pay for the web abroad?

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Yes

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Well in that case I'm afraid I won't be using mine abroad (unless its an emergency)

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Unless of course you're on a public wireless Internet access point with no charges for use.

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Roaming mobile data tends to be very expensive.

The iPhone actually has a setting called "Data Roaming" under General > Network. It is set to "Off" by default, which means that when you are roaming, the iPhone will *not* use mobile data (GPRS/EDGE/3G/HSDPA) & will only connect to the internet via WiFi (if available).

When Mrs D & I were in the US in March/April, we made sure to only use free WiFi wherever possible, e.g. hotels, coffee shops, etc. I think the only time we paid for internet access was in the hotel in LA (as you have to pay for everything there!).

Re: The iPhone thread
 

Just wondered if anyone could recomend a decent 2 player game on the iPhone and are there any games that can connect without a wireless router to the other iphone / itouch?

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Bomberman is quite nice, it has the Bluetooth thing so you can play with a mate on your iPhone and them on their 2nd Gen Touch.

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OK, looking for some help here, I'm trying to back up my contacts from the iphone 3G firmware 3.0 (7A341) to my sim card, I've googled it to death but can't find a work around, anyone have one ?

Thanks :tu:

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Aren't things like contacts backed up in iTunes as part of the normal backup?

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Yup - but bop want's to put all the contacts on the sim card not the phone.

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Yep, but I cant see / find any way of transferring them into another prog or to a file :(

Yep, 'kin Apple, I mean, what's the point of having a phone that stores numbers for 2 years and you can't put them onto a sim after that :mad::mad::mad::mad:

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Do you have Outlook? You can sync the contacts with that.

Or, if you have a Google account, you can set up Google Sync on the iPhone (uses Exchange) & sync your contacts to Google Contacts.


EDIT: Sorry, seem to have ignored the whole "copy to SIM" side of what you wanted! Prob. not much help then :erm: . Although if you're wanting to copy them to the SIM so they can later be copied from the SIM to a different phone altogether, then perhaps sync'ing to Outlook or Google could help as an intermediate step instead of the SIM (iPhone > Outlook/Google > new phone, instead of iPhone > SIM > new phone).

Re: The iPhone thread
 

Thanks, will look at that, I have both Outlook and a Gmail account, is that the same as a Google account ?

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Yep, Gmail account = Google account.

If you have a Gmail account, then you also have Google contacts & calendar - both of which can be sync'd OTA with the iPhone.

Google sync info:

http://www.google.com/support/mobile...44&topic=14252

http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p=apple

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Thanks for that :tu:

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Another daft question or 2, I'm trying to jailbreak ( unsuccessfully ) then I had a thought ( dangerous I know ) would I need to jailbreak the iphone to use an ) O2 payg sim ? if so, why ?

TIA

Re: The iPhone thread
 

If its an O2 sim then you won't need to jailbreak the phone.

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Thanks, just found out for sure by sticking the payg in :D So now son of bop has an iphone, what does bop get ? Ii was looking at the TG01 and now the HTC Hero, but I'm not rushing HTC have some great looking phones due soon.

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I jail broke my 3G with Firmware 3.0 - whilst the jailbreak was fantastic, custom ringtones, with Cydia, it seemed to slow the phone down even more and caused even more wierd randonmess - so I wiped it and started a fresh..

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Samsung Galaxy 7500? :p:

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Well, I gave in & Jailbroke my iPhone 3GS this evening, running OS 3.0.1.

Very easy.

Not tried Cydia yet - still getting it all back how I like it.

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Cydia is great! So much cool stuff you can do on there - for example - theres an APP by where you can change the provider text - from 02 to what ever you like - mine says "rich" at the moment.

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Yeah, it's very good! :)

So far I have installed...

Winterboard & Bosspaper (theme & wallpaper apps)

Five Icon Dock (gives you, unsurprisingly, a five icon dock)

SBSettings (handy little app which slides from the top when you swipe the status bar, giving on/off toggles for WiFi, 3G, etc., plus gives memory stats, process/task manager, shortcuts, ability to hide apps you don't ever use, etc.)

RedLaser (barcode scanner, which then IDs the barcode & searches Amazon & other sites for price comparisons).

Re: The iPhone thread
 

You should try GBA4iPhone - it's lush! Pokemon yellow / red etc - tis great!

Doom, is pretty sweet! SBS is lush and required for most cydia apps..

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Don't forget there is also a 5 colum thing too :)

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Cool. I may have a look for those :)

Nice. Didn't realise that :)

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There is also, PSP4iPhone, snes4iphone, gpSPhone, genesis4iphone

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Info on engadget about TomTom release

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/17/t...d-3gs-arrives/

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Did you ever get this fixed?

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I have what I think is a couple of small specks under my screen. I thought they were on the screen (it is, after all, a horrendous dust magnet), but after much furious wiping they were still there so I think they're under it.

They're only really noticeable though in bright & direct light, and at just the right angle, so I can't really be bothered to take it back to Apple (not just for two specks!).

If it gets any more though, I probably will try & get Apple to swap it.

Re: The iPhone thread
 

all fixed... Upgraded my wrt54gs to a new wrt54g2 and it works perfect now :)

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Wifi works fine for me now - I did have loads of drops but turned out to be cack router.

Also, I don't think this is "standard" however, I want to backup contacts on to the Sim card - i've had to put my jailbroken 3g back to normal as it was locking more than normal - is there a way without jailbreak?

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Yes, through Google contacts, that's how I had to do it with mine, do a Google search for it as I'm too drunk to remember, but it works.

Re: The iPhone thread
 

Just being reported that the Spotify application has been approved and will up on the store shortly.

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at £10 per month subscription.......

Link

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I have a premium account with them :D

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"Yelp" for the iPhone uses the GPS to give info on nearby bars, restaurants, etc., along with reviews & stuff.

The latest version also has a hidden augmented reality (AR) feature, for the 3GS only...

"Yelp for iPhone's hidden augmented reality feature"


Also: http://friendfeed.com/scobleizer/e6e...re-cool-easter


I've just installed it, & activated the AR "Monocle". Not tried it yet though.

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Spotify is now available to download

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The Spotify Application is quite good, shame it can't run in the background though. I hope Apple lift that limitation.

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£10 a month is too expensive, especially when there's Dizzler for free. Available on the iPhone and the Android.

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For people willing to jailbreak their phones, you can run Backgrounder to force apps to run in the background.

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By the way Apple will never lift the ban on background apps.

The best you can hope for is that they develop the iPod application to aggregate online music services.

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The apparent reasoning behind Apple banning bg apps is security. It prevents spyware etc running on the iphone without you knowing about it i suppose. But there could be something like the location services where it asks if you want to allow it to run in the background.

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I think it's more for battery life, the more apps running the more processing they need and your battery will deplete. The iPhone is already poor for battery life any worse and it might become unusable.

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I always thought it was more due to "YOU MUST OBEY APPLE!" ;)

They allow their own apps (iPod, Phone, Email, Messages, Safari) to run in the background...

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Yes but that's a handful, no more than any other phone really. Imagine 10/15 applications running in the background. Apple have the policy of not trusting their users not to do stupid things and therefore prevent applications from running in the background at all.

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OS 3.1 is now out.

http://www.apple.com/uk/iphone/softwareupdate/

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Has anyone else tried adding GMAIL to their iPhones as the Exchange email type?

I've run through this Apple help topic and I just can't make it work:
http://www.google.com/support/mobile...&answer=138740

Once complete, and after the iPhone says my gmail account has been verified on my iPhone using the Exchange option...when I open up mail...there is no email, and it prompts for my password. same for contact...nothing there just prompts for my password.

I typed in my password 10 times, it's def right... I have no issues adding gmail to my iphone using the Gmail email option, accepts my password!

But I want to see if gmail is PUSHED to my phone using the Exchange option, as per link.

Any ideas, have you tried it and it worked ok for you or not?

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From the link you provided, near the top:

Suggests to me that it won't work.....

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The 'Exchange' sync is for calendar and contacts only, and that part of the functionality works just fine.

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Mail sync no, gmail push yes, had it working fine :tu:

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As mentioned, only Google Contacts & Google Calendar currently support "Push" on the iPhone.

For Google Mail, you still need to use IMAP using the iPhone's email app.

Hopefully Google will support Push email soon...

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And now it does! :D

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/09/22/push-...d-its-limited/

http://google.com/support/mobile/bin...en&topic=14252


I already had my iPhone set up to use Google Sync for Contacts & Calendar, so all I had to do was remove the Gmail IMAP account, & enable "Mail" within the Google Sync account.

Bit slow at the moment, I guess due to the demand...

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I've set it up on my phone :)

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I've just set it up on mine :D - and I finally managed to get a 3G iPhone under the insurance I had (original 2G speakers went all crackly) so its a win-win now :D

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I'm going over to amsterdam next weekend and it would be really useful to be able to use my iphone. Would I be right in thinking if free wifi is used, then i won't have to pay roaming charges?

If i do connect over 3g, then is there a bolt on i can get just to cover myself. I'm only going Friday to Monday, but its helpful to use the google maps app (the best steakhouse in Amsterdam is on the agenda for this visit ;))

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Wi-Fi is indeed free still.... if the hotspots are "The Cloud" or open ones. I'm unsure about the roaming bolt-on but it wouldn't surprise me if one existed. I know the data charges without any bolt-ons are £2.94/MB on roaming so not exactly cheap.

Re: The iPhone thread
 

O2 Pay Monthly customers can choose from two "Data Abroad" bolt-ons:

http://www.o2.co.uk/explore/tariffs/...monthlyboltons


Personally, I'd make sure that "Data Roaming" is OFF within the iPhone's settings (should be the default), and then just make use of any free WiFi hotspots you can find.

Those Data Abroad Bolt-ons seem rather pricey, & general roaming data charges are also £££££.

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Deactivate your voicemail while you're there too - if someone gets through to it and doesn't actually leave a message, you'll get charged three times just to hear them mutter "I hate talking to bloody machines...".

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Thanks Matt, I opted for the Data Abroad 10 to be on the safe side, we want to be able to use Google maps to get around which require GPS anyway so even in wifi areas I'd still get caught out (unless i used google map website oops:).

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Good point!

http://www.o2.co.uk/support/generalh...email901abroad