Hi Wayne, Yes, absolutely you can put your iPhone into airplane mode and use it like an iPod or an iPod touch. Just because you're not using the internet or cellular features of the phone doesn't mean that any other functionality (i.e. iBooks, taking pictures, and playing saved recordings) won't work: it absolutely will. This applies to your wife's iPhone 4 too. You don't even need to have a SIM card in there (although every time you reset it to factory defaults, you'll need to activate it with a compatible SIM card, after which you can take it out). When you're in airplane mode, all the radios are turned off but you can enable WIFI and Bluetooth at any time.
Secondly, I have no idea about AT&T's coverage or what they consider roaming. But yes, absolutely you can choose whether to use WIFI, cellular data, or neither. In fact, the iPhone won't even try to connect to a WIFI network unless you explicitly give your permission, either by selecting a network from a popup that appears (if "ask to join networks" is set to ON under settings/WIFI) or by going into settings/wifi and selecting a network manually. Once you establish a connection to a WIFI network you can head into settings/WIFI and turn off the wireless radio at any time. On the same page you can navigate to the name of the cruise ship's network, flick right once and double-tap on the "more info" option, and choose "forget this network" to make the phone stop connecting to the network. Hope that helps, Grant On 11/3/12, Wayne Merritt <wcmerr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings all. I will be going on a cruise a week from tomorrow and > had some questions about hopefully using my iPhone on the cruise ship. > First off, realizing that cruise ship Internet cafe prices are > expensive, is it possible to use one's iPhone in airplane mode on the > ship when in international waters? I called the cruise company and > they said no, since I'm sure they would rather that I drop money in > the Net cafe rather than using my device's battery. Second, when in > the United States territories, is it possible to opt out of the ship's > wireless network and use my AT&T data plan? I will be traveling from > Galveston, TX to Key West, Florida, for the first leg of the trip. > Then I go out of the country to the Bahamas. Since we won't get to > Florida unil day 3 of the trip, I was hoping that I could use my data > plan to stream some football games on Sunday instead of paying the > ship fees. I suppose what I'm asking is if the area from Texas to > Florida is covered in the AT&T network? I don't imagine myself doing a > lot of streaming, but just looking for another option besides the > ship's costly network. Finally, my soon to be wife will be adopting my > old iPhone 4. Since I have moved my AT&T service from the 4 to the 5, > the iPhone 4 isn't connected to a network. However, it still has the > voice memos app and the camera apps for capturing those special > moments. Might it be possible for us to use the old iPhone in order to > take pictures and make some recordings of our time on the cruise? The > only online connectivity I could imagine would be to backup the photos > to iCloud, but we won't be able to do that until we get back home to > Texas anyway. Any thoughts on any of this would be most appreciated. > \ > Regards, > Wayne > > -- > Follow me on Twitter at: > www.twitter.com/wcmerritt > My websites: > www.wayneism.com > www.whitecaneday.org > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
