US (AT&T/Cingular) to Greece?

[Firehawkns]

I will be traveling with the wifes family to Greece in June to visit her relatives and I am wondering:

1. Can my 8525 work over there?
2. Do I need to do anything to get it working over there?
3. Does it cost my arm and half my leg to use it over there?
4. Any other tips or things I need to know with my phone?

This will be my first time leaving the US and I have no experience traveling abroad, so figured I would ask before I started calling AT&T up asking them or bothering my wifes family with a bunch of questions.

Thanks,
Nick

[fusQer]

What you can do is buy a new prepaid plan + simcard in greece, and use the phone in greece, etc, and buy a calling card to call to the USA. Otherwise, I would assume you would get charged international roaming if you don't have something setup with at&t.

What I am wondering is if you would get charged international text message $ if you communicate with text messages using your at&t simcard with someone in the USA. Does anyone know this answer?

[ibeqa]

What you can do is buy a new prepaid plan + simcard in greece, and use the phone in greece, etc, and buy a calling card to call to the USA. Otherwise, I would assume you would get charged international roaming if you don't have something setup with at&t.

What I am wondering is if you would get charged international text message $ if you communicate with text messages using your at&t simcard with someone in the USA. Does anyone know this answer?

Better idea! Install hardSPL V7 on your device so it assumes it is superCID, buy a prepaid greek sim card, install voip or skype (its cheeper this way) to call USA and have a nice vacation.

Cheers

[Firehawkns]

Better idea! Install hardSPL V7 on your device so it assumes it is superCID, buy a prepaid greek sim card, install voip or skype (its cheeper this way) to call USA and have a nice vacation.

Cheers

Nice. I have HardSPL (I'm thinking version 7, someone remind me how to check that again). I was worried VOIP would cost me more just because I am using data in another country. I have the Unlimited PDA plan here, but figured I wouldn't dare use any of it over there.

[XtreMe_G]

you need to sim unlock you phone, hardspl is not the same thing as sim unlock, supercid only allows you to flash other roms, not put in a different sim

international sms is i think like $1 per sms, dont remember i forgot