just a quickie before we head off to the bank – we both have HTC smart phones, windows mobile things with touch screens, pop out keyboards etc. We got them from T-mobile branded as “Vario II” – they are also called “Tytn” or “hermes”, depending on who is selling them.
so, popped my new SIM into the phone, only to be faced with a Network Lock – unsurprisingly, t-mobile had locked the phones to them: not much use to me, as t-mobile don’t have an australian network (vodafone and three are the only guys from the UK out here).
quick call* to the UK later, and T-mobile want £20 and 28 days to send out the unlock code for the phone. each.
Thankfully, the magic internet comes to the rescue again – this guy has an unlocker that removes all of the network locks easily – for the princely sum of zero, taking about 8 minutes. I’ll probably chuck him a tenner donation…
I’m on three now – they seem to have good enough coverage, but I need to get the mobile internet working to see how it is.. especially as our computer kit has cleared customs, and should be delivered to the house next friday.
from here, it’s just get a phone, get broadband, set up the servers and then we should have proper email etc back.
I am, of course, trying to stop myself from jumping around the place with excitement (and not just because of who got booted on the apprentice last night!). We pick up the new car tomorrow 😀
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Sounds brilliant … Ray Mears was on telly here couple of nights ago going Walkabout in Oz.
Great show Google something called Mound Springs – apparently ancient artesian water that springs up in middle of desert – bizarre, might come in handy if your wee hairdressers car conks out in Outback 🙂