http://careerbreaksecrets.net/8169/jeffs-blog/the-dollars-and-%c2%a8sense%c2%a8-of-traveling-with-an-unlocked-cell-phone Career Break Secrets: Travel show, independent travel blog and advice for career breaks and around the world travel adventures Thu, 13 Feb 2014 06:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 http://careerbreaksecrets.net/8169/jeffs-blog/the-dollars-and-%c2%a8sense%c2%a8-of-traveling-with-an-unlocked-cell-phone/comment-page-1#comment-219918 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:19:59 +0000 http://careerbreaksecrets.net/?p=8169#comment-219918 Sarah, I haven’t found a SIM card yet that wouldn’t work in the phones I’ve used (Latin America, South Africa, Oz and NZ, Europe, US, Canada). I’ve traveled with both a basic flip phone and an iPhone. I’m confident that if you get an unlocked GSM phone, you won’t have a problem in 99% of the countries you visit. Maybe there’s a country with odd shaped SIM cards. But, I haven’t found it yet.

]]> http://careerbreaksecrets.net/8169/jeffs-blog/the-dollars-and-%c2%a8sense%c2%a8-of-traveling-with-an-unlocked-cell-phone/comment-page-1#comment-219914 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:49:49 +0000 http://careerbreaksecrets.net/?p=8169#comment-219914 But will an unlocked cellphone take any sim card from any country? i thought that the shape of the sim card would eliminate some phones even if it was unlocked?

]]> http://careerbreaksecrets.net/8169/jeffs-blog/the-dollars-and-%c2%a8sense%c2%a8-of-traveling-with-an-unlocked-cell-phone/comment-page-1#comment-45374 Fri, 13 May 2011 01:41:50 +0000 http://careerbreaksecrets.net/?p=8169#comment-45374 Great info – I love how you’ve laid it all out. But my favorite thing is the inclusion of the tag lines!

]]> http://careerbreaksecrets.net/8169/jeffs-blog/the-dollars-and-%c2%a8sense%c2%a8-of-traveling-with-an-unlocked-cell-phone/comment-page-1#comment-45303 Thu, 12 May 2011 16:24:44 +0000 http://careerbreaksecrets.net/?p=8169#comment-45303 We got a US cell phone unlocked “flashared” in Guatemala. It saved us so much money having a local number. We rarely used to it to sms or call back to the US- we used skype instead, but having a local number made it easy to call around for lodging or to call a good cabbie we met. Now we have a neat little collection of SIM cards from around the world- some of them are actually quite cool!

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