iPhone airplane mode to avoid roaming charges
May 24, 2012, 2:16 pm
#16
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 1,621
Maybe this should be a new post question but I'll try and ask here. Does anyone know how iMessage works? I can't seem to work it out. Can I send iMessages to friends and family at home without incurring a fee? Obviously they need to have an iPhone with iOS 5 installed.
May 24, 2012, 8:41 pm
#17
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Upcountry Maui, HI
Posts: 13,308
Maybe this should be a new post question but I'll try and ask here. Does anyone know how iMessage works? I can't seem to work it out. Can I send iMessages to friends and family at home without incurring a fee? Obviously they need to have an iPhone with iOS 5 installed.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain...messages-beta/
-David
May 24, 2012, 9:17 pm
#18
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Programs: UA 1K 1MM, AA, DL
Posts: 7,418
BTW, if you use iMessage, "free" data-sent messages are in blue, whereas messages sent by SMS are in green.
May 26, 2012, 8:46 am
#19
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Menlo Park, CA, USA
Programs: UA 1MM 0P, AA, DL, *wood, Lifetime FPC Plat., IHG, HHD
Posts: 6,912
always
re: imessage. of course it only works with ios devices, but if your contact only has SMS it won't go out. Of course that would require a cellular data connection.
If you want to be able to message people on sms, but only have a DATA connection then download something like textfree and set that up before you leave. It is a free app and uses the data connection to send SMS messages. Works great to keep up with people who are on SMS and not imessage.
May 28, 2012, 8:28 am
#21
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: LON, ACK, BOS..... (Not necessarily in that order)
Programs: **Mucci Diamond Hairbrush** - compared to that nothing else matters (+BA Bronze)
Posts: 15,128
Location should be quite accurate as long as you have WiFi on (even if not connected to a network), as the iPhone uses wifi to triangulate position in addition to GPS. You don't need to be on a cellular network for location services.
Turning data roaming off will avoid any international roaming charges, though calls and texts may still be able to come through. If you really want to be sure you can just pop out the SIM and it will work just like a wifi-only ipod touch.
Turning data roaming off will avoid any international roaming charges, though calls and texts may still be able to come through. If you really want to be sure you can just pop out the SIM and it will work just like a wifi-only ipod touch.
Apr 14, 2013, 10:08 am
#22
Moderator: Smoking Lounge; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: SFO
Programs: Lifetime (for now) Gold MM, HH Gold, Giving Tootsie Pops to UA employees, & a retired hockey goalie
Posts: 28,878
So to bump this thread as goalie-parents are off to Paris and London next week...
They are taking my old unlocked Nokia and picking up local sim cards for voice calls and her iPad is wifi only so no issues there but for goalie-mom's iPhone (4s locked to AT&T), if she only want's to use it for wifi only (plus iMessages to me) and not incur any charges for voice and/or data, as noted above, I have instructed her to turn on airplane mode and then turn wifi back on and that's it, right?
They are taking my old unlocked Nokia and picking up local sim cards for voice calls and her iPad is wifi only so no issues there but for goalie-mom's iPhone (4s locked to AT&T), if she only want's to use it for wifi only (plus iMessages to me) and not incur any charges for voice and/or data, as noted above, I have instructed her to turn on airplane mode and then turn wifi back on and that's it, right?
Apr 14, 2013, 2:00 pm
#25
Moderator: Smoking Lounge; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: SFO
Programs: Lifetime (for now) Gold MM, HH Gold, Giving Tootsie Pops to UA employees, & a retired hockey goalie
Posts: 28,878
