Hi Andrew, yes, at the very least, the email address you associate with your Apple ID will be good for FaceTime. I always set my caller ID to my eMail address for both iMessage and FaceTime, so people got used to using that rather than my phone number, which changed when I travelled. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
On 5/05/2013, at 1:29 AM, Andrew Head <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jonathon, Thanks heaps for the info. Just clarifying, when a family goes > to facetime me, I think an alert comes up asking which contact they want to > facetime? I'm guessing they can just select my email or I could send them my > UK and US numbers and they can facetime those instead? As I don't have my > email set up on the phone. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Jonathan Mosen > Sent: Saturday, 4 May 2013 5:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Using the iphone overseas > > Hi Andrew, personally, I'd pick up a local sim in the country you're in, and > go right on using the iPhone at local rates. In the US and UK there are good > iPhone prepay deals. You can forward calls from your Australian number to > your temporary US one, so the only thing you'd be missing out on is texts to > your Ausie number. And if most of the people you text also have iPhones, > they can iMessage you at your email address when your foreign carrier SIM is > in the phone. You'll save a lot of money and it's great to have local data > for navigation apps etc. > > Jonathan Mosen > Mosen Consulting > Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org > > On 24/04/2013, at 8:37 PM, Andrew Head <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > I am from Australia and > Later this year, I'm planning to travel to England and America. I am > using an iphone 5 running the latest version of IOS, and was just wondering > about any useful info I should know about taking and using the phone > overseas. > I plan to take my old iphone 4 over and put a sim card in that to > use for phone calls etc, I prefer to keep the Australian sim right where it > is in the iphone 5, so it isn't lost and thought a spare old phone would be > put to good use. > I'm assuming if I take the iphone 5, I can connect it to a wireless > network and continue to use all my other apps, minus the phone of course? > Since my original sim is staying in I won't be able to use it over 3 G just > wireless? > Thanks for any info you can give, > Hope you all have a blessed day, > Andrew > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > "VIPhone" Google Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
