Comments on: Using Android phone in Ireland

By: Conor O'Neill

Conor O'Neill — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:46:16 +0000

Expansys.ie is your best bet for unlocked phones.

By: Stephen Downey

Stephen Downey — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:43:09 +0000

hi Conor,
I’m looking for a htc hero at the moment. Would you recommend any sites that ship android phones to Ireland?

By: Finally got my Android « Trevor Power

Finally got my Android « Trevor Power — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:57:58 +0000

[...] except that O2 weren’t able to help setup the 3G settings. I eventually found the correct APN settings but MMS message are working for me at the moment, apparantly these settings work for both 3G and [...]

By: Conor O'Neill

Conor O'Neill — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:54:23 +0000

Sorry for the huge delay in responding to your comments, I never got the notification emails!

@Ciara Setting up internet access on Voda is very easy. Go to Settings->Wireless Controls->Mobile Networks->Access Point Names->New APN. Create one where the APN is “hs.vodafone.ie”. Save, set as default, reboot the phone and you should be in business. I’ve done this multiple times and it works fine.

@Keith It’s receiving MMS that is the annoyance for me. Still doesn’t work even on latest bleeding edge firmware. It’ll work on any network if you have a data bundle (I’ve used Voda, O2 and Three SIMs). 250MB might be a little light if you get lots of email. Of course you can turn off auto-syncing to minimise data usage. It is also intelligent enough to use Wifi instead of 3G when it sees a connection.

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:55:00 +0000

Not having the MMS is not a big loss if you can email pics etc. so I could live with that. Do you think this would work on a standard O2 pre-pay account. And/or how about a cheap data bundle like the 250Mb add-on for a Pay-Monthly account?

O2 Ireland won’t let you add use a Blackberry on prepay and they are looking for €20 a month for a Blackberry with low usage on Billpay which seems a rip-off. I would really like an Android as I am using Gmail, etc. and had thought of getting an unlocked one and getting the SDK to see what I can do…

Cheers
Keith

By: Ciara Maher

Ciara Maher — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:17:36 +0000

I tried all of the above settings for vodafone ireland still dont have internet access on my G1 phone! What am I doing wrong?? very annoyed at this stage as I have the phone a few months now without the internet……

By: Conor O'Neill

Conor O'Neill — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:21:15 +0000

Yep, totally. I assume it’s HSDPA (3.5G) because it’s damned fast.

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:31:49 +0000

Are you able to get 3G on your G1 there?

,Michael Martin
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