Going to Europe for backpacking, tips for iphone? what to see?

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I heading to Europe for 6 weeks in a month backpacking, and plan on taking my iphone with me. I want to take it to use to email, check sports (seriously), and just stay somewhat connected to home. I am however, not sure what the best way to disable the phone part of it is to not get whacked with a $1000+ bill. I planned on turning on airplane mode, and just leaving on the wifi. I then thought on taking out the SIM card. Would that work better?

Also, here are the countries we're hitting :) and stuff I can think of to see.
England
France
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Switzerland
Austria

Thanks in advance for the help and advice given!
 
Niiice , man , I live in France , and I can tell you that Paris , is the best city in the world :)
After there are many medieval cities that you can visit...
I'm in UK now so I cannot keep you at home :/
 
Germany's Black Forest is really really pretty..

..I have so many memories walking along the creek..

<3 my homeland.
 
Sounds like a fun trip, be safe!

And I don't think you can take the SIM card out of an Iphone, so leaving it in airplane mode would be the best option.
 
1. Taking the SIM card out of your phone will essentially disable it from everything except dialing 911. (Im not 100% sure about iphones, but my blackberry and other phones had the same functionality by removing it)

2. If you are back packing across Europe, the score of a sports game should be the least of your concern ;)
 
Dude! Sweden is not on the list! Dude..there are a lot of sweet girls in Sweden plus we own at Games! You gotta check it out! I have an app u should download that drives u crazy man.. "The impossible test" (Free)

Have a nice trip
 
germany!
you HAVE to visit Dresden! its THE city here :D
msg me if youre planning to visit, i can guide you
 
"And I don't think you can take the SIM card out of an Iphone, so leaving it in airplane mode would be the best option." you can. it's at the top, and a tool is included to pop it out.

"1. Taking the SIM card out of your phone will essentially disable it from everything except dialing 911. (Im not 100% sure about iphones, but my blackberry and other phones had the same functionality by removing it)" so it would be safe, and would mean NO roaming chargers?

"Dude! Sweden is not on the list! Dude..there are a lot of sweet girls in Sweden plus we own at Games! You gotta check it out! I have an app u should download that drives u crazy man.. "The impossible test" (Free)" too far out, and only have 4 weeks. if it was two months, I'd have gone.

"germany!
you HAVE to visit Dresden! its THE city here :D
msg me if youre planning to visit, i can guide you" right now, Berlin is so far the only one, maybe Munich, but I'll keep this in mind :D thanks for the offer.
 
Sorry, wanna bump this one question


"1. Taking the SIM card out of your phone will essentially disable it from everything except dialing 911. (Im not 100% sure about iphones, but my blackberry and other phones had the same functionality by removing it)" so it would be safe, and would mean NO roaming chargers?
 
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