Awesome!! I'd like to kown step by step how to setup APN....mine seems like stucking with 2G and it dosen't go anywhere to access online. BTW, am using N900 with $100 Gold Rewards pay as you go sim.

Thanks in advance!

DH

resurrecting this old thread for a bit of reassurance ... I did the prepaid SIM + sidekick + proxy/Tor thing last summer on a trip to USA and it was all good. Am visiting again shortly, and I had a look on the T-Mo website and saw this new $1.49 day web pass.

So, it sounds like I can buy a new prepaid SIM in a T-Mo store on the most basic PAYG plan, whack on say $10 in credit, and then pay $1.49/day for each of the 5 days I'll be in NY in order to get full web access with enough left over for the odd voice call & text?

The only thing I'm not clear about is whether this is now "legit" on an N900 (i.e. a smartphone) or if the day web pass is supposed to be for dumbphones only. I don't really care either way (as I'm sure it'll work regardless) but I'd like clarity so I know whether I can take my N900 into the store and pop in the SIM immediately - or whether I should just buy the sim and take it aweay to install later (if the plan is not intended for smartphones). There's nothing I can see on the website that would preclude using the web day pass for a smartphone ... can any one advise?

@ Pigro to make it short... yes it works.

Excellent, I'm happier using a genuine tarrif with a fair price for its intended purpose - much easier than jumping through hoops to hack cost effective short term web access!

Thanks for the feedback :-)

Buck49/day IS for Smartphones. What makes Dumbphones dumb is not being capable of using such access.

However, the question is if N900 is considered a Smartphone or the next data-hungry category like those two other lame phone types out there. I would not take my N900 to a t-mobile store to get a SIM. Either buy from retailers or jump through that very easy hoop.

sorry - you suggesting that the plan is only meant for iPhone/Android, and telling them I will be popping the sim in my n900 would cause problems? I don't intend to advertise the fact either way, but last year I understood the need for subterfuge - now, it seems superfluous?

1) Do as you what you are doing to get web access from your n900.

2) tether to your netbook/laptop as follow:

- install ovi suite 3.1
on your netbook; connect n900 with USB/BT, ovi suite>tool>internet access>GPRS, tada, you now surfing the web with your n900! Absolutely no parameter settings! All other settings, 3G, tmob, ATnT what nots wont work. None of them work. Only GPRS works.

Oh sure, if you know how to tweak your netbook and n900, feel free to hack it wihout using ovi suite. I report it here as it seemed way too easy. I have tried to tether n810 with PC by brute force in the early days and it is not simple.

enjoy,

I agree it is 'better' to buy your own sim card and activate by yourself. Just follow instructions on the card. No need, and better not, to deal to CSR.

bun

Not planning to tether, just use data on n900. i have no intention (or need) to discuss anything with the in-store staff, but forewarned is forearmed re. whether it is intended for smartphone use. I got very good 3G service on T-mo last year, I am expecting the same on this plan unless you know different?

Just tell them you'll be using it with "my Nokia phone". For most stores, the conversation will end there, as they will assume you have a dumb phone. If the sales person is semi-smart, they may ask if it's an N-guage, which of course the N900 is not. :P

In any case, enjoy T-Mobil while you can. If the merger goes trough as planned with AT&T, this time next year you won't have the option of using anything nearly this cost effective in the US. (And that's coming from a current US AT&T customer...)

Bought SIM yesterday, but no web day pass seems to be available? SIM is fine for voice calls and a connection "t-mobile internet" with the epc.tmobile.com APN (blank user/password) When I select that connection I get 3.5G and the data symbol, but when I open a browser window I don't get offered the web day pass - I get nothing at all, just a blank window. i've registered the SIM at myt-mobile.com, but there is nothing configurable on the prepaid plah that i can see. i have plenty of credit too. anyone got any ideas?