Hi
i will recieve my NC tomorrow and have a question...
I live in Switzerland and want to know it if is possible to buy book or magazine if my billing adress is outside of the us ?
Thanks for your help
L
I'm afraid not. And even if you have a billing address and bank account/credit card in the US it still won't work as downloads direct to the Nook won't work outside the US. I couldn't download anything (apart from free books) on a recent trip to Europe..
Not a very good service.
US Proxy
B&N doesnt verify that much, a proxy server in the US do the trick
i use Hotspot Shield, buy content in my windows desktop and download it into the nook. have used it with my costa rican credit card and havent had problems. used it to purchase Nook Kids books and Magazines
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Hi all,
I know a fair amount of XDA-Developer members are from Europe so I thought I would ask you:
I am travelling all of Europe for five months, visiting about 15 countries.
Do you think it is better to take my current SIM card over to Europe and pay the huge roaming fees, or would it be cheaper to buy a SIM over there to call home?
Is there a SIM that covers the whole of Europe. Google says that there isn't, and I will have to get a new SIM in each country if I don't use roaming.
Obviously, I will be using Skype and VOIP as much as possible if I can.
Any ideas?
skype + voip = data roaming=massive fees
use local sims.
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I meant Skype and Voip at Internet Cafes etc. Not on my mobile device.
Jadel said:
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I meant Skype and Voip at Internet Cafes etc. Not on my mobile device.
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Places in UK that provide free WiFi access are few and far between. The Cloud and BT provide access points but charge an arm and a leg for it!
Local PAYG SIM's will eat your cash if you call international.
O2 and others who say they are independant but actually use O2's network will not give you SMTP and POP3 free access only a basic WAP access.
IMHO after trying loads (Live in UAE but go home to UK 4x per year) I found the Orange PAYG best overall as it will give you full web access but checkout 3's PAYG if ya want faster access to Tínternet.
Travelling Europe means many different providers. If you plan on staying in any one country then get a local SIM but free WiFi is most prevalent outside of UK. I personally have a wallet full of various cards from my service engineer days but it is becoming much easier to find cafe's and hotel lobby's that give free WiFi in continental Europe.
Load up a WiFi scanning prog before you go such as WiFiFoFum and you will find them.
It has to be said the T-Mobile in the UK offer a fairly decent PAYG deal, £2.50 for 5 days "unlimited", you want the 5-day WebnWalk pass.
Free WiFi via the Cloud can be had at most McDonalds, again not ideal but better than nothing.
If you're going to be traveling to over 15 countries, then purchasing a bunch of local prepaid SIM cards can be a hassle. There are a bunch of companies that make international prepaid SIM cards that specifically cater to businesspeople/ travelers. Most work in over 150 countries so you can make calls from just one sim card anywhere, and rates are pretty cheap. I personally used a card by onesimcard.com when in Europe. Had no problems and the sound quality was excellent. The onesimcard website has a great rate calculation page where you can compare against providers like T-Mobile.
roaming fees are ca. 0.60 € pro minute. even you receive call you have to pay something like 0.40 € pro minute..
its better that u buy simcard for every country
for example in Austria there is a PREPAID simcard for 20 € which has 2 GB DATA Transfer volume for Internet usage... its very cheap for national and international calls, you can also call and send sms with this simcard
check here: www.yesss.at and here http://www.yesss.at/diskont-surfen/home.php
OR
if you have a Wifi phone, there are a lot free wifi spots, you can use wifi + voip from your phone to make a call,
have a nice trip
Maybe this is something you can look at.
https://www.united-mobile.com/?p=&l=en
You would only need to buy one sim-card.
No experience myself with this product.
in france there is not so much wifi spot (too bad)...
in france there is europeane formula with Orange and SFR (perhaps bouygue but this operator not using a standard range... so forget with your foreigner phone lol)...
the only problem is that those formula are not in prepaid simcard... only with normal formula.
perhaps you should ask your provider... sometime there is some solution with them. (when i go to USA Orange make me a special offer for the 2 month i go over there...).
Is there a way for me to purchase UK apps on the Market if I'm in the U.S.?
Mainly interested in AppManager Pro.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512595
I can see AppManager Pro just fine, I just cannot buy it since the price isn't in dollars.
You can't? I've bought foreign apps before. Prime was a foreign app and I bought it the day paid apps went live.
It just tells me invalid credit card (AMEX). Perhaps I need to deal with the CC on this?
Perhaps you have no credit?
j/k
Ok, so it's the CC. I switched to a VISA and it worked just fine.
You need to pay your cc bill.
I'm going to Germany for a month and am interested in getting a prepaid sim card for my N1. I've never done this before and am curious whether its worth it. I would like to use my phone for both voice and data, but I'd be fine with only one of these features. Do prepaid sim cards in Europe include both voice and data plans? Can anyone recommend a place to purchase a reasonably priced prepaid sim card? Also, do I need to ask T-mobile to unlock my phone in order to use a foreign sim card?
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Prepaid in Germany
actually I don't have a nexus one yet but it is sold with plans on all networks, so I'd guess you can take any prepaid card.
There is a commom provider who sell a starterset in some supermarkets (e.g. Norma, Mediamarkt, Saturn, dm-drogeriemarkt, Kaufland, Budnikowsky, Real... according to their website ). It's name is blau.de or blauworld.de.
I'm not sure how it actually is done with these startersets, but usally you buy the simcard for ~10€ and it already has 10€ credit.
If you only want to use voice in Germany than you'd choose blau.de ( voice 0.09€ per minute in germany and data: 0.24€ per MB)
blauworld is cheaper if you want to make international calls, but more expensive for data and inner-german calls.
If your credit is used, you can buy vouchers to top it up in supermarkets and mostly every gas station.
I guess there a different cards available in these shops, this is just one I know and have good experience with.
so hopefully i could help and you'll enjoy staying in germany
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^^ this translator might come in handy while your in Germany you can listen to the pronounciation and they have a android app
Well I tried out google wallet tap to pay today and it's pretty nifty and works all the way to the point of the host accepting my payment. It seems the problem is that google issues a Virtual MasterCard Debit card to make payments instead of using your actual saved card. There are not many stores that actually accept these payments because mastercard charges a higher fee than any of the other cards. Now to my question, Does anyone know of an app that uses the NFC on our phone for payment but actually uses the card information instead of the a "virtual Mastercard"... I've heard of ISIS but it's not available on sprint. I can't find any that have this capability.
Thanks
kyle
This market is still new and ISIS and Google Wallet are the only real big players (perhaps only players at all) in this technology. PayPal is working on an option or has one, but I don't believe it works with NFC and I might be confusing my knowledge with a method of accepting payments instead.
Also, ISIS should be boycotted as it's the culmination of Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, and the credit card companies to dominate this market and block Google Wallet. Many users with ISIS also complain that the service just plain doesn't work too - a subpar product than Google Wallet. ISIS also uses NFC-equipped SIM cards - not sure if this is a requirement of the service but it definitely is a requirement for the carriers backing ISIS.
Its a known fact that the billing address must be a US address in order buy it from US Play Store. I have bought previously from US Play Store using a Forwarding Courier, MyUS address. I was wonder if still Google accepts any forwarding courier cause I plan to pre-order my Nexus 6P.