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Re: iPhones on ship

Sea-Turtle48 — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:21:02 GMT

Michele's reply just reminded me international plans are expensive but with AT&T you can get 100 texts for $10 otherwise it's .50 cents a text each way and $1.29 to send pictures.

Re: iPhones on ship

Michele — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:02:15 GMT

Couple of things to know before you use a smart phone outside USA. The most significant issue is with data roaming. Data roaming cycles every 15 minutes for emails, etc. This happens regardless of whether you prompt for emails or not. To counter the issue, Apple allows you to turn off Data Roaming prior to leaving us. You can do it directly on your iPhone. Depending on your version the instructions differ a bit. Now if you turn off data roaming, you can still get text and voice calls. Your carrier should have an international plan, but even those are expensive. You can turn off all cellular data so no calls or texts can come in, but that takes away getting the "emergency" calls as well. That is something you have to balance. You can simply turn off data roaming (must do this) and keep cellular data on then turn off the phone until you want to use it.

My first trip abroad with my iPhone took my phone bill from the average $500 per month to over $1,500. I was out of country for 4 days and actually decreased the number of texts/calls. The culprit was data roaming.

Hope this helps

Michele

Re: iPhones on ship

Sea-Turtle48 — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:50:47 GMT

HAL will also charge you for using wi-fi on the ship.

Re: iPhones on ship

Sea-Turtle48 — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:46:16 GMT

"DON"T" use!!

I made a mistake and for 5 minutes had my iPhone on rome and was charged over $400. Thankfully I've been a AT&T customer for over 10 years so they reversed the charges for me...

iPhones on ship

Merri-Grit — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:36:21 GMT

This will be my first cruise with a smart phone. I have an iPhone.

Has anybody used their smart phone to do Internet using the ships

wifi on a cruise ship before?