I Got an Oskarta and Flashed the Official Android 4.0.4 onto My Xperia Mini Pro

Since I found out that my Xperia Mini Pro will probably not sell, because my ads have been up for a week already and so far nobody has responded, I decided to keep it, if only because apps for Android are cheaper (sometimes even completely free compared to the prices on WP), have more alternatives, offer more features overall and behave much better. The problem with this, though, was that I still have several SIM cards, but all of them are with the established operators at not very good prices, and I would rather have a virtual operator.

Then I have one more SIM card from O2, where I have a 67% discount on Mobile Internet M with a FUP of 1GB. The problem with this SIM is that you can’t make calls from it, you can only send SMS messages. I pay 99 CZK a month for it and the discount is valid until January 2015. After that I would pay the standard price of 303 CZK/month. I was also considering the “CD Bonus” plans from Vodafone (i.e. plans that can only be registered on an In Karta prepaid card) – then I would have calls for 1.5125 CZK and SMS for 0.3 CZK until I used up the 30 CZK I would have to pay every month.

Beyond the 30 CZK it would cost four times as much, i.e. 6.05 CZK per minute of calls and 1.2 CZK per SMS. So at most I could talk for up to 20 minutes or send up to 100 texts. If I stayed within the limit, it would cost me, including internet with a FUP of 150MB, 163 CZK a month. I’m still mulling it over and I think I’ll get that In Karta plan again, but I can’t make up my mind. Oskarta also looks nice. Calls to all networks for a flat 2 CZK per minute, SMS for 1.5 CZK and internet for 30 days for 149 CZK with a FUP of 200MB.

And since I tend to call and text less rather than more, and I could also live without the FUP of an extra 50 MB, what I like most about the In Karta plan is the SMS price, which is lower by 1.2 CZK in the case of “credit”, or by 0.3 CZK once the credit is used up. The second option would be to get the more expensive voice/SMS plan for 89 CZK with 353 CZK of credit instead of 120 CZK and more expensive mobile internet (specifically probably Full Mobile Internet for 263 CZK with a FUP of 600MB, and put a SIM with the same number into both phones (a so-called Twin SIM), so I would have just one number but a shared FUP, and once I exceed it, my speed drops to 16-20kb/s.

And that makes me a bit worried on my Lumia 520 – on it I hardly used the internet through apps at all that month, plus for about half the month I had the battery saver permanently on, where apps only run when I start them and only one can run at a time, and on top of that email doesn’t sync automatically. And the result was this: in 29 days the Lumia used almost 300MB of data: