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if, like us, you have a lot of mobile devices hanging around for trialling and testing, you will also be familiar with the pain of SIM swapping.
(picture the scene. You have 10 different phones you need to test your new phone game on. Each of the phones need a SIM in them to start up. But since you only lkeep the phones for testing you don't have a contract per phone.)
well, the solution to your problem may be pay-as-you-go, and every now and again the phone providers offer free PAYG sim cards.
now is one of those times: here is a free sim promotion from Orange. I haven't noticed any nasty smallprint, yet.
thanks for the link, Kelly
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free SIM cards?
if, like us, you have a lot of mobile devices hanging around for trialling and testing, you will also be familiar with the pain of SIM swapping.
(picture the scene. You have 10 different phones you need to test your new phone game on. Each of the phones need a SIM in them to start up. But since you only lkeep the phones for testing you don't have a contract per phone.)
well, the solution to your problem may be pay-as-you-go, and every now and again the phone providers offer free PAYG sim cards.
now is one of those times: here is a free sim promotion from Orange. I haven't noticed any nasty smallprint, yet.
thanks for the link, Kelly
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Fascinating overview of mobile operating system market share - but is it real? Those nice folks at icrossing have updated their infographic summarising mobile operating systems all over the world. It is a great visual image. I use it often. BUT BEWARE...
- M-learning In 2009: Predictions
The ever-charming Graham and his crew over at handheldlearning convinced a group of us to attempt a prediction about what would happen in the world of m-learning in 2009. Here were my thoughts, in a christmas-pudding-inspired pantomime stylee: Several...
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We end up buying an awful lot of smartphones - many of them PocketPC based. (probably almost 3000 over the last couple of years) it is always a really messy business, haggling with suppliers to get the best price. And it gets extra complicated trying...
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QR Codes have been around for a while. They are one of several different attempts to improve on barcodes, offering a small image that contains machine readable data. You may not realise, but your phone could tell you that the one on the right says "www.m-learning.org"...
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