a handy sim cutter!
At the moment most sims are produced in a standard mini sim size.
This can be a major problem if you own an iPhone 4 or an iPad as they will not accept a mini sim.
Buying a micro sim often costs far more than a mini sim and choice is very limited, so it’s best to cut a sim down to size.
You can chance your luck carving it with a sharp knife & scissors or you can get a tool to cut it.
I have got myself a sim cutter from http://www.cutmysim.com/
It seems to do the trick and the sim now works in an iphone 4, and I hope to test it in an ipad.
The iphone4 comes with a handy micro-sim to mini-sim adapter which is shown holding the cut AAISP.NET sim.
get those APN settings correct!
Just got myself a spare Vodafone PAYG sim and have put £5 credit on it using my credit card online.
This is a handy sim as there is a flat 50p per day data charge for anything up to 25mb – it’s a “fair use” cap rather than “hard” I think.
The actual sim costs nothing, and you can put as little as £5 on it which would give you up to 10 days browsing. On days you don’t browse you don’t get charged which is far better than sims which charge a monthly data fee irrespective of how much data you actually use!
Anyway, I’ve put it in my Iphone 3gs to test it, and the first thing I notice is that the default APN settings are wrong!
It’s:
APN: wap.vodafone.co.uk
Username: wap
Password: wap
However this does not work! You need to change the settings to:
APN: pp.vodafone.co.uk
Username: wap
Password: wap
Then it will work fine.
I don’t know WHY Samsung have to use such aggressive adhesive for the advertising stickers on their notebooks.
This stupid sticker near the keyboard peeled off, but it was designed in such a way that the gum stayed stuck to the notebook instead of the sticker!
I thought I would rub it off with windowlene, but NO CHANCE as it would have taken me all day.
In the end I used a clothes lint remover, on of those sticky ones with peel-off sheets and after using about 4 sheets to literally PULL off the adhesive it was all 100% gone.
I expect sellotape might have worked, but forget using liquids to clean this off.
why such hard to remove stickers samsung?
