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**gydrorway** · 02-24-2012, 04:21 PM

I can confirm that a recently activated Claro prepaid card worked like a charm on an Android phone. Activated, paid social, voila working...you just have to enter correct APN. You MUST enter APN. Because BB Social has open APN same as BB Full, it's waste of money to activate BB full. I use BB social on my BB and I CANNOT use native browser but OPERA MINI works fine and is better than native browser. I cannot use GMAIL app, but LogicMail works great and better than gmail app. I cannot use GoogleMaps but I don't need them. I can use Facebook. And that's all I need to do on the BB. And best of all, when i travel I can tether my laptop while on BB social and navigate from my LAPTOP to any and all Internet services.

Oh well, it appears from rubio's post above that there was no need for me to spend the extra pesos and hassle of upgrading to Full service. But I've got no complaints. I'm now using my iPhone as a Personal Hotspot for my iPad to send this message. The tethered iPad is 5 times faster on the Claro service than it was on my hotel's WiFi. But unlike rubio's experience with his Android, I did not have to adjust any APN settings on my iPhone. I don't even know how you would do that on an iPhone. I simply inserted the cut-to-size Claro SIM card, turned on the iPhone, and gave it about a minute to find the new service.

02-24-2012, 04:21 PM	#27
gydrorway Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 556 Senior Member	I can confirm that a recently activated Claro prepaid card worked like a charm on an Android phone. Activated, paid social, voila working...you just have to enter correct APN. You MUST enter APN. Because BB Social has open APN same as BB Full, it's waste of money to activate BB full. I use BB social on my BB and I CANNOT use native browser but OPERA MINI works fine and is better than native browser. I cannot use GMAIL app, but LogicMail works great and better than gmail app. I cannot use GoogleMaps but I don't need them. I can use Facebook. And that's all I need to do on the BB. And best of all, when i travel I can tether my laptop while on BB social and navigate from my LAPTOP to any and all Internet services. Oh well, it appears from rubio's post above that there was no need for me to spend the extra pesos and hassle of upgrading to Full service. But I've got no complaints. I'm now using my iPhone as a Personal Hotspot for my iPad to send this message. The tethered iPad is 5 times faster on the Claro service than it was on my hotel's WiFi. But unlike rubio's experience with his Android, I did not have to adjust any APN settings on my iPhone. I don't even know how you would do that on an iPhone. I simply inserted the cut-to-size Claro SIM card, turned on the iPhone, and gave it about a minute to find the new service.
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