Re: GSM phone + SIM card?

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:16:27PM -0800, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 17:06 -0800, David Fetter wrote:
>
> > Here in the very backward and strange land of CDMA, I have a phone
> > that works fine, but only here. When I'm in most of the rest of the
> > world, I'm phoneless, which makes things kinda tough, so I'm looking
> > for a way to get:
> >
> > 1. An unlocked GSM phone that's just a phone. Simplicity is key.
> >
> > 2. Some way to acquire a SIM card, ideally one that will work
> > EU-wide.
> >
> > Any hints as to how I might go about this?
>
> Buy a PDA, and use Skype on PDA -- You will need an Internet access, but
> I'm sure there will be one wherever you are ;)
>
> At least this is my plan nowadays :)

It wroks reasonably welli f you get a flatrate data plan. But note taht
those plans are generally not flat-rate when you're roaming. Indeed, they
become insanely expensive when you roam. My experience is also that you get
a lot lot worse talk-time when you run an app like skype, because it uses a
lot more CPU power.

//Magnus