Comments on: Fido, getting a touch more annoying. http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/01/fido_getting_a_touch_more_annoying.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:31:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Krystal http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/01/fido_getting_a_touch_more_annoying.html/comment-page-1#comment-213169 Krystal Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:39:58 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/01/15/fido_getting_a_touch_more_annoying/#comment-213169 hmmm tempting Jared! hmmm tempting Jared!

]]> By: Jared http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/01/fido_getting_a_touch_more_annoying.html/comment-page-1#comment-213146 Jared Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:37:03 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/01/15/fido_getting_a_touch_more_annoying/#comment-213146 ouch, very ouch. you should get yourself an n-series with wifi and place all your international calls/txts via Truphone. i've been using it for months (they've had a gimic with free calls to 40 countries for a while now, but its almost over) and i can say that the service is phenominal. $0.15 per txt msg - to anywhere in the world cost per minute for calling? i dont know yet. after using for about 7 months i havent paid for a phone call yet. you can see pricing for some destinations that aren't part of the free calling gimic on their website, but i haven't called those places (and its likely the places you want to call are still freebies until the end of february). oh, and the voice quality: it sounds EXACTLY like i've placed the call over my GSM service. battery life? i put the phone in 'offline' mode, then explicitly connect via wifi from work. i'm convinced that doing this i actually get MORE USE out of a charge than if i used the gsm radio. personally, i'm planning to switch to another carrier because i dont use my airtime minutes anymore. currently i'm on AT&T and their cheapest plan is $40 - but i never use more than 100 minutes in a month on GSM (i talk a LOT over wifi though). T-Mobile here i come :) ouch, very ouch. you should get yourself an n-series with wifi and place all your international calls/txts via Truphone. i’ve been using it for months (they’ve had a gimic with free calls to 40 countries for a while now, but its almost over) and i can say that the service is phenominal.

$0.15 per txt msg – to anywhere in the world
cost per minute for calling? i dont know yet. after using for about 7 months i havent paid for a phone call yet. you can see pricing for some destinations that aren’t part of the free calling gimic on their website, but i haven’t called those places (and its likely the places you want to call are still freebies until the end of february).

oh, and the voice quality: it sounds EXACTLY like i’ve placed the call over my GSM service. battery life? i put the phone in ‘offline’ mode, then explicitly connect via wifi from work. i’m convinced that doing this i actually get MORE USE out of a charge than if i used the gsm radio.

personally, i’m planning to switch to another carrier because i dont use my airtime minutes anymore. currently i’m on AT&T and their cheapest plan is $40 – but i never use more than 100 minutes in a month on GSM (i talk a LOT over wifi though). T-Mobile here i come :)

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