Smartphone is as needy as passport in your travel of
Roaming, but it is quite common to get huge bills due to many service providers
charges and data charges. This post will let you setup your android device for
saving your money while roaming around freely.
Welcome back to
Intelligent Computing, using Smartphone is not enough, we recommend be smart. There
are lots of way you can pay high bills without any special use of your phone
while on roaming. But you can save a packet of money when you get smarter in
advance and prepare yourself just before you roam.
You can think one
way to turn off all the data services and even monitor data usage to control
your expanses while on roaming, here in this post we have compiled a lot more
ways to get more savings than you even imagined.
1. Check your Service providers Policy and pricing
The first and most
important thing I will suggest you to is check their policy, pricing of data
usage, call incoming and outgoing and if there are any plans of packs for
making it cheaper by paying small charges. Opt those offers if your estimate
usage is higher than you normal.
2. Get Offline Google map for Roaming
For many phones,
Google Maps now let maps available offline for few areas. You don’t have to pay
data charges when you get lost and it would be easy to search for restaurant,
coffee shop while keep your data service off.
Just in Google Map,
hit menu > Make available offline > and Pan a box around the area you
want to visit, it would show you estimate size in MBs after that, it would save
entire data of selected location and it would be easy to navigate and that too
free.
3. Adjust your Android Settings
Roaming allow you
to use the data services while abroad, fortunately you can turn it off too. You
just have to go to Menu > Settings >
Either look in
Mobile network or network depends upon your Android version. Also you can
quickly turn mobile network on or off simply by pulling down quick settings.
4. Use Wi-Fi as much as possible
Now a day’s
everywhere you go, from coffee shop to hotel lobby, they provide you Wi-Fi
access for your mobile devices. You sometime have to pay small charges for that
but surly it will be far cheaper than mobile networks data charge.
Feel free to ask
for Wi-Fi access wherever you go, and pay when it really needs to.
5. Control your Data usage
Now a day’s Android
device supports data usage monitoring and controlling utility inside it. You
can estimate your data usage and limit it and even turn the data off when
reaches a particular limit.
Just before getting
on roaming, just do this. Menu > Setting > usage. Set ‘Reset data count’ on
first day of roaming, you can set red line to your maximum possible usage and
green line to the amount when you would like to get notified.
Once you reach your
Data usage limit, data services will be automatically turn off and you’ll save
a lot.
6. Get SIM and charger for your destination
Getting local SIM
for your destination is easiest way to save lots of money, but you need to do a
lot for this, getting SIM is not enough, you’ll need to unlock the phone buy
top up etc. you can get the roaming SIMs specially for roaming and pay as you
go. You can find more here on Www.RoamingSims.com
Don’t freak out and
forget charger, get a portable charger and if possible a USB charger with you
with even portable power source. This will really help you if you want to enjoy
music of video on the Go.
Bottom line: Planning will save
Surly, planning
these before you go ahead, will help you in saving huge bills and data charges.
Hope you find this post useful and I would love to hear from your side, your
own way to save or anything else you can suggest us. Don’t forget to share this
post on Mail, FB or tweet it. Don’t forget to be awesome have nice time.
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