Just in case this is useful to anyone:
I wanted to put a sim in the car to enable just traffic data. The fact that AFTER I ordered it I realised my variant doesn't actually have a sim slot is neither here nor there.
Anyway, the sim I ordered is from Three, who do a 200MB a data only month sim (so enough for traffic data) for the grand total of nothing. I think to keep it alive you have to make one call/text every six months or something.
Anyway, it's a bit niche and most people doing this will be using their phone and have a contract with gobbets of free data anyway, but for us mere PAYG users I thought I'd mention it in case it helps anyone setting this up.
www.three.co.uk/Free_SIM_MBB/Order
I've since realised my phone has a dual sim slot, so I might be able to point the phone to the three sim for mobile data and keep everything else on my normal sim, thus achieving what I wanted anyway.
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Good idea, and other places tell me that nav uses about 5mb per hour while driving so probably adequate, though someone suggested somewhere it uses quite a chunk when planning your route - couldn't find how much though. One thread said that nav data doesn't all show up under the nav app either, some is under system data.
Still, worth considering for occasional user!!
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>>I've since realised my phone has a dual sim slot, so I might be able to point the phone to the three sim for mobile data
Probably better to buy a cheap POS phone and leave it in the car.
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You're certainly right, but I'll always try the free option first. I'm tight like that. When I DO then have to spend money, at least I know for certain the free option didn't work/was too much hassle.
Although now of course you made me think. I have an ancient but working unlocked iPhone 5 lying about. I wonder...
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SIM in the car - smokie
