jb – did you buy the iphone in mexico or in the US?

thanks

I already own an iPhone (2G) which I have unlocked and have been using in the UK with a non official carrier for sometime.

I have, however, shifted to Mexico for the next year. I attempted to sort out a contract with Telcel which would include some kind of unlimited data plan but they told me that because my iPhone was not bought in Mexico (and not configured as such) I would end up paying per kb for data usage, even with an unlimited data plan.

That seems inaccurate to me, as it’s not that difficult to change the APN settings but before I go any further I hope some of you might be able to clarify what I was told.

Thank you!

Everything worked exactly like it did in the states (Youtube, mail, voice calls, internet, & even the psudo-GPS location). What I enjoyed the most was that Google maps has been updated to provide road information for Mexico! I checked this feature about a month ago and there was no road data for Mexico.

The only thing that did not work for me were the directions in Mexico. I would drop pins and try to get directions from two places and I was never able to get it to work. Other then that my experience with my phone in Mexico was outstanding. However it seems like most people over there don’t even know the iPhone exists, most people thought it was a bulky iTouch.

I stumbled upon your blog while trying to get a better idea if I should take my phone with me or not. I plan to leave tomorrow night and plan to be there over the weekend. My phone is unlocked so I will probably add the intl. $20/20mb plan from AT&T to the phone so I can stay in touch with email, and swap out SIM cards to make local calls to relatives while there.

I’ll come back later to update you on how things turned out.

Regards,

Eli

i’m a fellow expat cali surfer, unfortunately i’m based in df and not bucieras.

i’ve had my 8gb iphone here for about 8 months now on telcel and everything works great. dont use data since i have wifi everywhere i go (office, house, neighborhood). the only feature you lose operating in a non-apple sanctioned network is the visual voicemail, which isn’t the end of the world. actually, the unlocking process is terribly simple these days and since you have to jailbreak/unlock by default to use it in mexico at the end of the day you gain some functionality (all the great installer.app programs, there are a ton of useful ones).

I guess this will be the case until the sdk comes out, at which point i am sure it will take the iphone dev community a month or so to catch back up to where apple is…

best,
jb