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hey everyone john Redinger from TechnoBuffalo here last week Tom Merrick from cnet.com put up a video about how you can well sort of use the iPhone on Verizon or Sprint network no hacky required and while it was a very good post actually was really informative I thought it needed a little bit more explanation and you can go it's a little bit more detail about the nuances of how to do it so let me go ahead and explain before you guys get too excited about using your iPhone on Verizon or Sprint completely and freely it's not gonna happen but there is a way to sort of use your iPhone on Verizon or Sprint completely legally non hacking non jailbreaking or nothing and it involves a device you saw me review last week the MiFi and again this is available on Sprint or Verizon buddy that may not have seen the video what the my fied does and this is the Verizon version sucks in Verizon's CDMA network and spits out a Wi-Fi signal which is actually quite needed use it for data for any Wi-Fi equipped device laptop or phone so what you can do turn the MiFi on it really just let the side about eight credit card stat so quite small I can fit at your pocket or a backpack or purse whenever you might carry and hook it up and connect your iPhone to it so now essentially what you're doing is you're using Verizon is a video network for data on your iphones nothing terribly fancy right there but it's coming out looking like Wi-Fi but you're still using Verizon's EVDO network so that's fine for data what if you want to make calls well there are a lot of options you can do now to make calls now that you're using Verizon's EVDO network you can use call forwarding with a system like Skype so if you got a verizon number you can set that number to forward to your Skype number and always have Skype up and running on your iPhone with things like Google Voice which I assume will eventually be released for the iPhone there are a lot of other voice over IP options that you can use so essentially you really don't have to go through AT&T if you want to use the iPhone although you do have to purchase a my Fi running either $99 on contract or if you want to buy it out of contract about two hundred and sixty dollars and you got to be careful with plans with this too you can either spend about 60 bucks a month for a five gig plan or forty bucks a month I believe for a 250 megabyte plan and those prices are the same with Verizon or Sprint so it's not an unlimited all-you-can-eat sort of solution but it is a way to go if you are stuck in a Verizon contract you're waiting to get out or maybe you don't get 18 G service where you are but you get better Verizon or Sprint coverage it is a nice way to go one of the other side effects about using the MiFi is your phone thinks that you're connected to Wi-Fi since well it really is doesn't know that you're just using a EVDO network that's being converted so you get around a lot of limitations at the iPhone put in place for instance slim player if you use sling player you can only use it over Wi-Fi but since you are technically over Wi-Fi you can now use sling player anywhere you are the same is true for a lot of other Wi-Fi only applications for example like Skype or like iTunes if you need to download a app that's over ten megabytes you can now do that and you can use a lot of streaming applications as well like juste that is only Wi-Fi so you it's a nice sort of middle ground right there so it's not the iPhone on Verizon or Sprint that some of you might be looking for but it is definitely an alternative for how you can do it so just a kind of a short summation about how this works in case some of you got confused the my file this little device right here converts a cellular data network into a Wi-Fi signal so think of it as a portable portable router essentially so you turn this bad boy on you connect your iPhone just like you'd see any other Wi-Fi network you throw this in your bag you put in your back pocket whatever and now you're connected via Wi-Fi to sprint or Verizon's EVDO network you can now set up call forwarding and you can have all your calls forwarded right to Skype or a voice over IP client actually works out quite well or you can just use the other carriers data network if you prefer like I said if you don't get good tea coverage where you might be if you're in a rural area or if you're in just one of those spots that doesn't quite work well it isn't very nice alternative and I think it's a very good idea and I think Tom Merritt when he first brought this up really had a brilliant idea to to use your iPhone or really any phone for that matter on Verizon's Network and this sort of trick and not really hack again will work for any Wi-Fi equipped phone kind of cool anyway hope you enjoyed it something that you're gonna consider doing you do have to eat a $60 a month plan but technically you could not have a data plan on your iPhone and just keep this with you you could not even have a voice plan actually on your iPhone and keep this with you and it's always have Skype or some other sort of voice over IP client open and well you can use it so it's something that you might consider is it worthwhile not worthwhile I can't tell you that the mind 5 works fantastically data rates are really really really fast but you are gonna be capped to five gigs of space or five gigs of download or upload so I hope you enjoyed hope this is a good explanation if you have questions go ahead and leave them in the comments down below and leave your video response if something that you think that you might do anyway guys for exclusive content be sure to check me out of Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers and to learn more about TechnoBuffalo check out TechnoBuffalo com see you next video buh-bye