Yesterday when I was sitting at my desk it struck me that I have two SIM cards from Spain lying in front of me. I bought the cards during my last trip to Mobile World Congress 2010 in February for 3G data access. I put one of them into the HTC Desire and -boom- I had full Android Market access through the WiFi connection. I tried purchasing an item and then switching back to my old SIM card, and today the Android Market informed me that an update was available for the purchased application, even though I could no longer see the application in the Swedish version of Android Market. The update downloaded just fine.
If you have an Android phone and want to access the Android Market to buy Android apps you can buy a UK SIM cards from the site droidstuff.se. They are quite cheap at €7 a piece (79 Kr) so it’s really a no-brainer if you own an Android phone and live outside the 14 countries that have full access to the Android Market today.
And they’re quite popular! It’s a shame that we actually “need” to sell them, but I it’s nice that we can provide an alternative solution to access the real android market without any technical expertise!