1) your iPad still has integrated 'wifi' as we call it in the UK. Your hotel will probably have it, either free or you can pay for a certain amount of time. This will work when you connect regardless of what country you've bought your iPad in (my mum uses hers abroad, for instance.)
But I would not recommend using your inbuilt Internet provided by a company in the US over here. It will cost you so much money. When I was in the Dominican Republic for my honeymoon, to log on to the Internet with my inbuilt data plan on my phone was something like £5 a day. No way!
So my advice is to find somewhere that has 'wifi' (it will be called this everywhere in the UK and is free in places like Starbucks if you buy coffee etc) and use it there. Many hotels will have it and if you're lucky it will be free.
2) if the things you want to use need the Internet on your phone, then be careful as you stand to be hit with the same charges mentioned above. If they don't access the Internet to work then I don't see why they wouldn't work in the UK. Again, as
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Just looked at the post again - it's very odd that nothing would work on your last phone. An alarm clock isn't powered by an Internet connection or telephone network.
Your music player should definitely still work. Your kindle app may need to connect to the internetz. And obviously an Internet browser will definitely need a connection.
I don't know how it works in the USA, but a phone bought here comes with the option of roaming when you go abroad. This costs a fortune and I turned mine off on my iPhone. But then I was still left with basic phone functions as I could text and make and receive calls. Not that I ever would as it was so bloody expensive!
So unless the USA do something odd to their phones, then things should function with your smart phone, even more so if you are willing to pay the extortionate data costs. I wouldn't though. It's easier to connect to free wifi. It's everywhere.
I know nothing about iPads, but I bet your local Apple store would be able to tell you whether or not the built in 3G or 4G (whichever it is) will work. Caveat: I suspect that it won't, unless there's a way of "switching" the way the data is received, because the mobile phone network in the UK is a completely dfferent language to the one in the US.
Your phone: My Android phone (a Samsung Galaxy Nexus) will run all my inbuilt apps that don't require 3G/4G or a cellular connection. I cannot use the phone for phone calls or texts, even if I wanted to. The question you need to ask at your local US Cellular store is, can you take the SIM card out of your phone and replace it with a SIM card that will work in the UK? (Again, I suspect the answer is no, because I think the Galaxy S also has a micro-SIM card rather than a SIM, like my phone.)If you really need a mobile phone whilst you're in the UK, I recommend buying a pay-as-you-go phone once you get there (you can actually buy a compatible *phone* here and then just buy a SIM card that
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But I would not recommend using your inbuilt Internet provided by a company in the US over here. It will cost you so much money. When I was in the Dominican Republic for my honeymoon, to log on to the Internet with my inbuilt data plan on my phone was something like £5 a day. No way!
So my advice is to find somewhere that has 'wifi' (it will be called this everywhere in the UK and is free in places like Starbucks if you buy coffee etc) and use it there. Many hotels will have it and if you're lucky it will be free.
2) if the things you want to use need the Internet on your phone, then be careful as you stand to be hit with the same charges mentioned above. If they don't access the Internet to work then I don't see why they wouldn't work in the UK. Again, as ( ... )
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Your music player should definitely still work. Your kindle app may need to connect to the internetz. And obviously an Internet browser will definitely need a connection.
I don't know how it works in the USA, but a phone bought here comes with the option of roaming when you go abroad. This costs a fortune and I turned mine off on my iPhone. But then I was still left with basic phone functions as I could text and make and receive calls. Not that I ever would as it was so bloody expensive!
So unless the USA do something odd to their phones, then things should function with your smart phone, even more so if you are willing to pay the extortionate data costs. I wouldn't though. It's easier to connect to free wifi. It's everywhere.
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Your phone: My Android phone (a Samsung Galaxy Nexus) will run all my inbuilt apps that don't require 3G/4G or a cellular connection. I cannot use the phone for phone calls or texts, even if I wanted to. The question you need to ask at your local US Cellular store is, can you take the SIM card out of your phone and replace it with a SIM card that will work in the UK? (Again, I suspect the answer is no, because I think the Galaxy S also has a micro-SIM card rather than a SIM, like my phone.)If you really need a mobile phone whilst you're in the UK, I recommend buying a pay-as-you-go phone once you get there (you can actually buy a compatible *phone* here and then just buy a SIM card that ( ... )
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