Good start on Season 2. Glad to see you guys back. “This Guy” is getting big.

Glad you covered this topic. I’ve been curious, but considering my area is not amenable to a 3G reliance, I’ve been on the fence. Useful info. I think I’ll pass. 😉

So glad TON is Back!! interesting take on getting around the cell phone cost…

Great episode, but have thought of just getting a prepaid smartphone? That would make your set up much simpler. I mean from Virgin mobile you can get a pre-paid android phone and use it to tether your ipod touch if necessary without rooting. Just download  the app “quick settings” and enable the wifi tethering featuer built into android 2.2. That way you can do everything you want to do on your ipod and still have reliable voice calls for….wait for it…$25 a month. It all works on the Sprint Network so your experience should be the same you had before. 

I hope this solution gives you a higher P.A.R rating and by selling the Mifi you can recoup much of the up front cost. 

Love the show

PS Here a video about the setup i described above

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qimo5z8FLyI&feature=player_embedded

At the time I started the experiment, there weren’t any high-quality prepaid Android devices out there. Better phones are coming now, so, that’s definitely an easier solution. 

Thanks for doing the leg work on this experiment.  I considered doing  it myself but when I realized the cost would be the same I decided against it.  I’m on a Verizon family plan and I’m the secondary line, so I pay $10/mo for voice and $30/mo for unlimited 3g (get it while it’s hot!).   I don’t need a texting package because, like Iyaz, all my calls/texts are piped through Google Voice.

Good episode, can’t wait to see what’s coming up.

Hi iyaz love your show just subscribed to show on Itunes but I’ve got one problem your mp4 play video fine on my galaxy s but there’s no audio 🙁 I have to re encode the videos for my galaxy s what audio codec do you use on the mp4’s