As wonderful as the iPhone is you still need a connection to the outside world.
Here in Samara there are a couple of Internet places offering wifi at 1000 colones per hour (about £1.50) not sure how they define an hour for a mobile device!
Or maybe I could use the local I.C.E mobile operator although it’s not showing an Edge or 3G connectivity on the iPhone display and anyway O2 would want at least £6 per MB.
Which leaves trying to find some altruistic person leaving their wifi open. So far I’ve found two, both hotels. I was kicked out of the first one whilst trying to buy a drink for 3000 colones which I thought was a bit weird as I would happily promote his hotel for free, PR which would be priceless – alas not to be 🙁
The second hotel I will wait and see….
It strikes me there is a need for an open wifi system that only allows iPhones to access – since the iPhone ( in the form sold by Apple) is really only a low usage user. so places could display an apple to show they are iPhone friendly.
Time to go sniffing this time for dinner!!
I can recommend the wifitrak application by the way to sniff out networks.
Thank god for the internet and skype is all i can say…. 🙂
Hey Geoff.
There is an open wifi at the hotel belveder near the bus station and at the school (ssid:samara).
c u @ the school on monday:-)
mathias
Hey Geoff.
There is an open wifi at the hotel belveder near the bus station and at the school (ssid:samara).
c u @ the school on monday:-)
mathias