TAKE TWO! ONE WILL BE BETTER. Advice especially for newbies.

[Robins]

Hi all,
Newbie here appreciate the info so far. Just purchased a blu dual sim phone for travel from the US to South America Europe and Japan.

Based on what I've read here, will load it with a piraña card for the benefit of everyone to call us while we travel and then will also load it with some local cards as we go and rely on skype for most calling. Will be on the road for three months total. If the whole thing doesn't work in Japan, I guess that will,have to be ok.

Other thoughts?

[snidely]

Originally Posted by Robins

Hi all,
Newbie here appreciate the info so far. Just purchased a blu dual sim phone for travel from the US to South America Europe and Japan.

Based on what I've read here, will load it with a piraña card for the benefit of everyone to call us while we travel and then will also load it with some local cards as we go and rely on skype for most calling. Will be on the road for three months total. If the whole thing doesn't work in Japan, I guess that will,have to be ok.

Other thoughts?

Who is your local carrier in the U.S.? If you are on T-Mobile you would have free wifi calling built-in if you have an Android or BBerry. Free calling back to U.S. wherever you have wifi.

[Robins]

Hi all,
Thanks for the input: we got a Blu samba junior plus. As far as tmobile goes, we use prepaid, and according to them, there's no international available for prepaid, we also found that the sim did not work in Mexico.

As far as Japan goes, if the phone doesn't work there, it's only 14 days. I also did not think we could get a phone that worked in all places for less than forty bucks.

Thank you again, appreciate it

Robin

[Bossman]

Actually, tmobile prepaid does have some international roaming, at very expensive rates of course. My sim worked in Mexico as well.

I am currently in Nigeria, using the Piranha sim and my local Nigerian sim in a Samsung 6102B (with the 2100 3G)Galaxy Y duos dual sim phone. In my experience, it seems like the Piranha sim is doing a lot of checking or connecting and disconnecting from the network. And that uses the battery a lot. Besides that, it works fine.

Originally Posted by Robins

Hi all,
As far as tmobile goes, we use prepaid, and according to them, there's no international available for prepaid, we also found that the sim did not work in Mexico.

Robin

[snidely]

Originally Posted by Robins

Hi all,
Thanks for the input: we got a Blu samba junior plus. As far as tmobile goes, we use prepaid, and according to them, there's no international available for prepaid, we also found that the sim did not work in Mexico.

As far as Japan goes, if the phone doesn't work there, it's only 14 days. I also did not think we could get a phone that worked in all places for less than forty bucks.

Thank you again, appreciate it

Robin

Prepaid users on TM have had the ability to roam intl. for a while. You would NOT want to do that as rates in Europe are $1/min and in So. America much more than double that. You would need to call CS at TM to activate that. To make use of their wifi calling feature you would need an Android or BBerry.