Hi there,

You can use this as soon as you get it! If you terminate early (i.e. before the 16th March), you'll still have to pay off the remainder of the contract with Orange which will terminate early. Seeing as you've already paid for your contract until the 16th, it might be worth waiting until then before requesting the code and using it!

Hope this helps,

Ken

Hi Ian,

If it's been unlocked through the official method, you should just have to put in a O2 SIM card and then plug your iPhone into iTunes. This should cause it to unlock the phone again.

Ken

By popular demand, this post has just been updated with two additional stats:

1. Many people ask about Skype calling. According to Skype, a typical call has a 50kbit/s bitrate. Our testing on a Galaxy Nexus showed it showed it used around 70kbit/s. A bit rate of 70kbit/s would amount to 0.55MB/minute and hence 500MB = 15 hours.

2. Many people ask about downloading applications. Applications vary in size quite a lot, but we downloaded the 20 most popular free applications on Android. In total, they came to 121MB. For this reason, we've taken the average app to be 6.1MB in size. Hence 500MB = 80 apps.

Ken

Hi Ankh,

Thanks for the comment! It's a little known fact that the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) standardised on 1MB = 1000KB and 1GB=1000MB in 1998. They also defined some binary prefixes so 1024 bytes = 1 kibibyte, 1024 kibibytes = 1 mebibyte, etc. Though you are correct in saying that usage isn't consistent across the industry so it could actually mean either! I'd say the definition of 1,000 is more useful for this purpose - sticking to 1000 rather than 1024 means you won't inadvertently exceed your download limit!

Hope this helps,

Ken

Hi Andy,

I believe the proper way to go is through Vodafone as an upgrade. Obviously as an upgrading customer, that means you won't get the same deals as a new customer would. You could call Vodafone customer services and ask them to move your number between accounts (other mobile operators such as O2 can do it with ease). Worse case scenario, it's possible to port out to another network and then port back in. You can get a free SIM card for this purpose from http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/free-pay-as-y....

Hope this helps,

Ken

Yep, this page is being left as an archive for anyone who is still on the 3Pay tariff. If you're signing up now, you'll be on one of the "All in One" tariffs: http://cow.neondragon.net/index.php/three-revamp-...

Ken

Post has been updated again - T-Mobile now state there isn't a speed limit of 1Mbit/s.

Post has been updated again - T-Mobile now state there isn't a speed limit of 1Mbit/s. https://twitter.com/#!/TMobileUKhelp/status/16577...

Hi Sue,

You'll get an icon in the notification bar at the top of the screen to show when wi-fi is connected, and also the signal strength. As well as this, the name of the wi-fi network should be displayed on the home screen. If you see this, you can rest assured the internet traffic is going over wi-fi rather than 3G.

Hope this helps!

Ken

Full disclosure: This article was edited on 4th February 2012 to add information about the 1Mbit/s download speed limit.