iPod Touch roams free with 3's MiFi

27 NOV 2009

The Mi-Fi – you key to a contract iPod Touch

Everyone knows the iPod touch is just an iPhone without the phone. But, while it's as at home on a Wi-Fi hotspot as its pricier Apple cousin, it's soon left gasping for data air when it gets out of wireless range.

Not so with 3's MiFi - a portable wireless router welded to one of 3's mobile broadband modems. The result is a tiny hotspot that'll act as a go between for 3's 3G network and the touch's built-in wireless. Cunning.

3's offering the two bundled together on contract so you can pick up a MiFi modem and an 8GB iPod touch for £23 a month over two years, complete a 5GB data allowance - or 72 hours of browsing, 800 songs and 400 applications as 3 puts it.

That's only, er, £11.26 a month cheaper than a two-year iPhone 3G contract with unlimited data, but we digress.

If you've already got yourself a Touch, you can still grab a MiFi on PAYG for £49.99 plus £20 for 3GB of data to use over three months. Just remember to pronounce it "My" Fi when you go into the shop or you'll end up walking out with a cutesy white rabbit. Hello, Miffy...

Have your say

cjrush666 November 27, 2009 16:29

If anyone has the N97 you can use the 3g on that as a wireless router for any gadget in the vicinty!

You just have to buy the app (joikuspot) after your free 1month trial, bout £20 I think! Just a thought if you have the N97 (on an unlimited data package of course)

Rev Aardvark November 27, 2009 18:35

I have just had a major conflict with 3 to get my money back for their useless MiFi unit.

The two I have had so far have both failed to charge the battery and only works when plugged into an additional external power supply. It is, therefore, not a mobile unit and as such unfit for purpose. With this in mind I requested my money back Two weeks so far and no result, despite numerous phone calls - go to their website and use the 0800 number. My advice to everyone DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM 3, and if you do you must, according to their stores return the original packaging, although the Indian sub-continent don't think so.

Once involved with our friends overseas you will find that no one can 'authorise' anything, and you will spend a very long time 'on hold'. Try another option and amazingly enough when you get through to the UK HQ and ask to raise a complaint, guess what, you are back onto the ridiculous 'push button X' straight back to India.

The thing is when you wish to cancel, very nice people from Glasgow offer all manner of incentives to stay. I have been promised my refund for the last 2 weeks and am still waiting. Amazingly enough even letters and emails to their CEO have remained unanswered, what sort of a company is this......

alistairkb November 28, 2009 10:30

I think Rev Aardvark's review just convinced me not to buy this product, could stuff look into this please, or maybee list another wireless mifi please.