As wonderful as the iPhone is you still need a connection to the outside world.<\/p>\n
Here in Samara there are a couple of Internet places offering wifi at 1000 colones per hour (about \u00a31.50) not sure how they define an hour for a mobile device! <\/p>\n
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 \u00a36 per MB.<\/p>\n
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 \ud83d\ude41
\nThe second hotel I will wait and see….<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Time to go sniffing this time for dinner!!<\/p>\n
I can recommend the wifitrak application by the way to sniff out networks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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