iPad as a phone.
When we are at home, we use a mobile phone as most ppl do. But at the moment, I'm at home in Australia with my 3G iPad and my husband is in Nepal with his iPad which is wifi only. Wifi at his hotel is $10 per half hour!!!! But he
calls me, usually once per day, using Face time or Skype. It's lovely to see as well as hear him. I've received his calls at home over the weekend, only the dogs here and they already know I'm crazy. But Dave is getting funny looks when he calls me from the garden at his hotel, when he's sitting there talking to a 'book'! The hotel workers obviously think he's weird but the other tourists are really interested in his iPad. I think he should be on commission!
He has bought a ZuniConnect IV. I read about it on this forum, it will enable him to call me later in his travels, as some of the cheaper hotels in Europe have an Internet connection only and no wifi. The Zuni is a little router, the size of a deck of cards, convenient when traveling. I'll get back here later and let you know how it's going.
So this is how we are getting around the issue of using a wifi iPad as a phone.
When we are at home, we use a mobile phone as most ppl do. But at the moment, I'm at home in Australia with my 3G iPad and my husband is in Nepal with his iPad which is wifi only. Wifi at his hotel is $10 per half hour!!!! But he
calls me, usually once per day, using Face time or Skype. It's lovely to see as well as hear him. I've received his calls at home over the weekend, only the dogs here and they already know I'm crazy. But Dave is getting funny looks when he calls me from the garden at his hotel, when he's sitting there talking to a 'book'! The hotel workers obviously think he's weird but the other tourists are really interested in his iPad. I think he should be on commission!
He has bought a ZuniConnect IV. I read about it on this forum, it will enable him to call me later in his travels, as some of the cheaper hotels in Europe have an Internet connection only and no wifi. The Zuni is a little router, the size of a deck of cards, convenient when traveling. I'll get back here later and let you know how it's going.
So this is how we are getting around the issue of using a wifi iPad as a phone.
