A month in Thailand with iPhone

First of all, I am not a computer geek.... just a stupid user, who could just only use.... I don't really know much technical stuff, however, I would like to share some experience using this phone internationally. I just hope that it would be useful for some user who is thinking or preparing to go abroad with your iPhone (or future iPhone)
Starting from on-board experience:
Trip from US to Thailand is basically 24-hour trip (more or less) including transit time via Japan. I charged my iPhone for a night before using it. Aitplane mode works very well. At that time I haven't had any movies on my iPhone. I listened to ipod from iPhone around 18 hours + half an hour international phone call. So, I guess my battery is OK.
in Thailand:
Since the international roaming is so expensive, I use my iPhone as iPod and web serfing only. For some reason, youtube is banned in Thailand at the moment (do not ask me why, it's the different long story), however, you could see on your iPhone via EDGE. youtube is ready to watch within one minute. However, I was charged for $20 for 1GB loading.
Basically, I turn on airplane mode all the time in Thailand and use it as ipod touch. Map, stock and weather are useless. However, weather mode could find some other weather condition in some other countries such as Singapore or Hong Kong.
It is worth noting that I have a trouble syncing with my home computer in Thailand and I could not solve it. I am not sure whether it is because I synced in Thailand or not. To me, it should not be the case but I could not find the wayout for this so I just ignore that (if someone knows, please let me know).
I could not think about any other issues. iPhone is not getting into Asia until 2008. Right now, some other brands are trying to eat up some market share on devices that would have similar features as iPhone. I have tried HTC and LG Prada while I was in Thailand but I have to admit that the interface of iPhone is way better.
I hope this would help you all in some way as a non hi-tech person.
cheers

I use www.voipdiscount.com
so I go to this web site via safari, login, put my phone number and long-distant destination number. The web will connect the line for you.
I don't really know whether other website would do the same thing like this or not but this works for me lately.
cheers

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