A collection of micro-posts, generally with a photo or video attached, based on what I tweet and stuff I do.
(Photos & videos here are taken by me)
Best iPad 3G data plan in Switzerland?
The iPad 3G will begin shipping in Europe and Switzerland next week (or the week after).
I got mine yesterday and made it work with what I believe is the best and cheapest data plan currently available in our country.
I’m talking about the Sunrise Go Prepaid SIM card with Surf option which costs 7.50CHF per month and includes 250MB of data.
Unfortunately Sunrise doesn’t currently sell a MicroSIM compatible with this plan. They’ll send you a standard SIM card and if you want to use it with your iPad 3G, you’ll need to cut it to turn it into a MicroSIM.
Cutting the card
A nice thing about iPads 3G sold in the US is that they come preloaded with an AT&T MicroSIM card. In the pictures below you can see how I used this card as “model” to cut the standard Sunrise SIM by aligning the chips on both cards and drawing a MicroSIM “mask” with a felt-tip pen. And finally used a pair of scissors to cut along the marked lines.
There are plenty of other articles and videos on YouTube that show you how to do this with similar or different techniques.
It’s really not that difficult. Yes, you need to be careful, but not extremely careful, if you’re off by a millimeter or two it’s no big deal, it’ll still work.
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Plug and Play
Cutting the SIM card is really the only thing you need to do. There’s no additional work involved. No need to change APN settings or anything, just stick the new SIM into the iPad 3G and it’ll work.
If after a minute or so the “3G” logo on the top-left corner disappears, don’t worry, you didn’t do anything wrong, you simply forgot to charge 7.50CHF on your card (at least, that’s what happened to me) ;-)
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