A good unlocked SmartPhone is really useful for travel. You can get them as cheap as like $130 these days and you can do all of these things:

1) Much easier to type texts to girls. And unless you're fluent you will be texting a lot. Seriously, texting in a foreign language is hard enough, it really helps to have a querty.

2) Much easier to manage contacts. Group them by country. Store notes under girls so that you remember them in the future. Check years of text history much easier. This stuff really helps when you return to a country a year later, or if you travel to many many countries.

3) GPS. Is the taxi driver going in circles? Want to to be able to find you way back to the hostel drunk? GPS baby!

4) Skype. You can use it as a skype Wifi phone. Just load skype and set up the phone to connect to wifi at your hotel and favorite cafes and restaurants. Make/receive calls from the US

5) typing notes, voice notes, recording video, photos, mp3's, movies, email, ebooks, language audio programs, blah, blah, blah

6) and most important... reading the roosh travel forum multiple times a day from anywhere you can connect to wifi


Example: I saw this on sale for $130 a month ago:
http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-Unlocked-Tou...603&sr=8-1

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6) and most important

Hah.

That phone doesn't have wifi though. This one does and isn't much more expensive:

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-S5620-Quad...B003L0PQ1Y

My B' day is comming. Anyone mind to buy me one?
Hahaha... The Sansung is okay to me.

Quote: (06-15-2010 12:42 PM)Mrs. Chocolate Wrote:  

My B' day is comming. Anyone mind to buy me one?
Hahaha... The Sansung is okay to me.

I'll give you a sexy spanking instead.

OMG...

Quote: (06-15-2010 06:18 PM)Mrs. Chocolate Wrote:  

OMG...

Is that a "yes"?
Its not a "no"
Speakeasy, book the flight.

Wifi is a must have for me. Also the globe master app makes wikitravel (not all of it, unfortunately) available offline on an iphone. There are also many dictionary apps, visual dictionary apps and so on. Perhaps I should find one with tropical disease symptoms for this summer too.

Quote: (06-15-2010 09:36 PM)Tor Wrote:  

Also the globe master app makes wikitravel (not all of it, unfortunately) available offline on an iphone.

Another good use to add to the list.
Also, you can save webpages to view later.

Google Translator could also be one of the great uses when you're in wifi range. Great to take on a cofee date for beginner level speakers.

Absolutely, and (at least some places) in asia 3g is not that expensive, using it everywhere could make getting by in for example non touristy cities in china (where no one speaks english) easy.

I have the samsung intrepid and about 6 sim chips, once the iphone4 comes out... I am flying back to nyc almost soley to get it..... thats a phone!

blackberry

Quote: (06-17-2010 10:52 AM)clr Wrote:  

I have the samsung intrepid and about 6 sim chips, once the iphone4 comes out... I am flying back to nyc almost soley to get it..... thats a phone!

The 4th gen iPhone only has a micro-sim slot, so, unless those 6 sim chips are micro-sims, they are going to be useless with the phone.

In other news, I began my travels with some cheapo Samsung that I bought off some cell phone stand in a Colombian "super" market. I couldn't really get by with it, so I scrapped it for an unlocked Nokia e71 ($250 amazon).

The e71 is a pretty cool phone. Skype and Opera run on it, but I think the iPhone i have back home is still much cooler. Someone here showed me his latest HTC android phone and it was pretty awesome as well.

If traveling for any extended period of time, I think it's absolutely necessary to have a nice phone with you. Easy texting, wifi, and all the other stuff PartyTime said. Going from a nice phone in the US to an old school press 3 three times for whatever letter is going to kill your buzz. fo sho fo sho

shit, I forgot about that.. is there any work around for that? damn....micro-sim

"The 4th gen iPhone only has a micro-sim slot, so, unless those 6 sim chips are micro-sims, they are going to be useless with the phone. "

Micro-sim is stupid. Space-saver? Really?

So... is the solution just getting an older generation iphone or can this one be modified?

yeah PLEASE anyone know??? SHIT SHIT SHIT, he burst all my bubbles, any way to get a blank micro sim chip and copy info from a regular sized sim, like a flash drive?

Google is your friend:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/how-t...e-and-som/
http://lifehacker.com/5532554/trim-a-sim...er-devices

Simple solution

I will take my lashings on this one, I abuse google like a redheaded step child, and the one time I didnt.... my bad, but thanks for posting!

Quote: (06-18-2010 06:49 AM)gringoed Wrote:  

So... is the solution just getting an older generation iphone or can this one be modified?

I'd get iPhone 3G (not 3GS). Much easier to unlock/jailbreak, and you can get it around $250 cash or even less, without any contract. Which means if you break it or got it stolen, there is less pain. They also make extremely valuable gifts if you ever need one.

I bet if any of you bust out one of these, you will get so many fuckin' ladies you won't even know what to do with them!

If you live in the U.S. you can get cheap older Quad Band(worldwide) Black Berries or Treo's for less than $50 on Ebay and regular Quad band phones are even cheaper. When I travel I usually travel with two phones. One is a Treo Quadband Smartphone and the second one is a cheapo Quadband regular phone as a spare or to use in places where I am not comfortable using a fancy phone ie local markets, park, streets, etc....Another good thing about Smartphones are that you can Synch/Back up your contacts into your laptop and "cloud" services like Yahoo and Google. I might splurge on Quad band Iphone for no other reason than bitches seem to dig that phone.

Quote: (06-17-2010 03:38 PM)kerouac Wrote:  

Going from a nice phone in the US to an old school press 3 three times for whatever letter is going to kill your buzz. fo sho fo sho

Yeah, this is super true.
When my spanish was poorer, I remember having google translator open on my laptop, then trying to transfer the translation from the laptop to my phone with the bulshit press 3 times thing. Takes forever. And as I'm almost ready to send the message, I get another text from the girl asking why I'm not answering her. Real frustrating.

I too carry multiple phones, often if I know I am going to get drunk I will switch to my shitty phone for the night so I dont lose it or get it stolen. Also I bought blackberry in bulk, I would travel with 3-4, sell them(I would get about 3 times what I bought it for) or give them as gifts as well.

Quote: (06-19-2010 04:31 PM)clr Wrote:  

I too carry multiple phones, often if I know I am going to get drunk I will switch to my shitty phone for the night so I dont lose it or get it stolen. Also I bought blackberry in bulk, I would travel with 3-4, sell them(I would get about 3 times what I bought it for) or give them as gifts as well.

you must be rich

I am definitely not rich, but I bought a bulk sale of 10 older refurbished blackberrys on ebay, with new chargers and cables for around 450 bucks. a 45 dollars gift especially when its worth about 200 or more in south america gets you lots of brownie points!

Quote: (06-20-2010 04:47 AM)clr Wrote:  

I am definitely not rich, but I bought a bulk sale of 10 older refurbished blackberrys on ebay, with new chargers and cables for around 450 bucks. a 45 dollars gift especially when its worth about 200 or more in south america gets you lots of brownie points!

Same works really well with iPhones in EE.