Help with Prepaid data plans and smart phones

MATHA531 · **Help with Prepaid data plans and smart phones -** 31-07-2011, 13:19

I joined this forum what is it now five or six years ago and learned quite a bit from the wonderful folks here and became a "pseudo" expert on gsm voice stuff (with emphasis on pseudo) and the source of inexpensive prepaid plans (yes I am a very cheap person and am always looking for the cheapest way out).

Okay so I'm a dummy when it comes to data so please bear with me guys. I have a few friends in London and visit them two or three times a year(they come and visit me and it works real well; they love New York and the cheap prices of things here, I like the theatre and the cheap prices of the theatre there. Their first visit is to Walmart to stock up on blue jeans, tshirts and the like). In any event, I was taught here about using a stick modem to access the web on my notebook when I stay where not every flat has free wifi and don't want to spend the day sitting in Starbucks or Mickey D.

Having said that, I have found a great app on my smartphone here that enables me to listen to most any radio station in the world. I can be whizzing along on the Santa Ana Freeway in LA listening to WFAN radio in NY through the input jack on the car radio (and also using it as a gps, remarkable).

So here goes. I need suggestions on a relatively cheap smart phone where I can load android apps. My prime interest is the UK but I would also want to be able to roam through the eu at reasonable rates. Now I know roaming rates are coming down within the eu for data but being the cheap person I am, I want it to be as cheap as pssible.

The other question as part of this and I posted something like this on a sports blog about six months ago. CBS radio has restricted access to its streaming radio stations on the internet outside the USA. So I can no longer listen to my hometown radio stations streaming on the net although as I understand it there is software that masks your location to beat that idiotic restriction. So as part of the advice I hope I can get here, and as I said, five or six years ago it was this forum that gave me my first info on things like sim cards and prepaid voice plans, if anybody has that android app and would try to see if they can get radio station WFAN in New York, it would be very helpful to me.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

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MATHA531 (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Specialist Posts: 869 Join Date: 15 Oct 2004 Country:	Help with Prepaid data plans and smart phones - 31-07-2011, 13:19 I joined this forum what is it now five or six years ago and learned quite a bit from the wonderful folks here and became a "pseudo" expert on gsm voice stuff (with emphasis on pseudo) and the source of inexpensive prepaid plans (yes I am a very cheap person and am always looking for the cheapest way out). Okay so I'm a dummy when it comes to data so please bear with me guys. I have a few friends in London and visit them two or three times a year(they come and visit me and it works real well; they love New York and the cheap prices of things here, I like the theatre and the cheap prices of the theatre there. Their first visit is to Walmart to stock up on blue jeans, tshirts and the like). In any event, I was taught here about using a stick modem to access the web on my notebook when I stay where not every flat has free wifi and don't want to spend the day sitting in Starbucks or Mickey D. Having said that, I have found a great app on my smartphone here that enables me to listen to most any radio station in the world. I can be whizzing along on the Santa Ana Freeway in LA listening to WFAN radio in NY through the input jack on the car radio (and also using it as a gps, remarkable). So here goes. I need suggestions on a relatively cheap smart phone where I can load android apps. My prime interest is the UK but I would also want to be able to roam through the eu at reasonable rates. Now I know roaming rates are coming down within the eu for data but being the cheap person I am, I want it to be as cheap as pssible. The other question as part of this and I posted something like this on a sports blog about six months ago. CBS radio has restricted access to its streaming radio stations on the internet outside the USA. So I can no longer listen to my hometown radio stations streaming on the net although as I understand it there is software that masks your location to beat that idiotic restriction. So as part of the advice I hope I can get here, and as I said, five or six years ago it was this forum that gave me my first info on things like sim cards and prepaid voice plans, if anybody has that android app and would try to see if they can get radio station WFAN in New York, it would be very helpful to me. Any advice is greatly appreciated.