A question about unlocked phones

[Inspector Jihad]

I am on verizon and I want a new phone and I was considered getting an unlocked one. What exactly do I look for in a phone. I've heard CDMA and GSM thrown around?

 

[Caesar]

verizon is CDMA so you will need that

 

[Mo0o]

Verizon used CDMA so even if your phone is unlocked it'd have to support CDMA for it to be usable. Tmobile and cingular both use GSM so an unlocked phone would work for both. That's what i've been told

 

[EightySix Four]

Verizon, it's not even worth it. The network type is CDMA, which you have to activate with Verizon which more or less destroys the purpose of having an unlcoked phone.

Cingular/T-Mobile and many others use a network called GSM, which uses SIM cards. My unlocked phone can take a sim card from any GSM provider and work just fine.

 

[ts3433]

Verizon uses a CDMA network, so importing phones from abroad (GSM exclusively) is out.

 

[Nikamichi]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
I am on verizon and I want a new phone and I was considered getting an unlocked one. What exactly do I look for in a phone. I've heard CDMA and GSM thrown around?

CDMA and GSM is not what you need. I would suggest you start with JFGI and RTFM.

 

[AmigaMan]

I recently bought an unlocked GSM v3 from a forum member here. After googling on how to get it activated on Cingular's network (connect to MEdia Net), I have to say it works great. My next step is to get a TMobile SIM and try it on that network.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: Nikamichi

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
I am on verizon and I want a new phone and I was considered getting an unlocked one. What exactly do I look for in a phone. I've heard CDMA and GSM thrown around?

CDMA and GSM is not what you need. I would suggest you start with JFGI and RTFM.

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fvck off flamejob

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: Nikamichi

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
I am on verizon and I want a new phone and I was considered getting an unlocked one. What exactly do I look for in a phone. I've heard CDMA and GSM thrown around?

CDMA and GSM is not what you need. I would suggest you start with JFGI and RTFM.

A public meeting place, a Pub, if you will... A place for computer junkies to boldly post Off Topic... Things you might want to tell everyone... Or things you wouldn''t say to anyone else.

fvck off flamejob

E-FIGHT!

 

[Nikamichi]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: Nikamichi

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
I am on verizon and I want a new phone and I was considered getting an unlocked one. What exactly do I look for in a phone. I've heard CDMA and GSM thrown around?

CDMA and GSM is not what you need. I would suggest you start with JFGI and RTFM.

A public meeting place, a Pub, if you will... A place for computer junkies to boldly post Off Topic... Things you might want to tell everyone... Or things you wouldn''t say to anyone else.

fvck off flamejob

lol

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad

Originally posted by: Nikamichi

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
I am on verizon and I want a new phone and I was considered getting an unlocked one. What exactly do I look for in a phone. I've heard CDMA and GSM thrown around?

CDMA and GSM is not what you need. I would suggest you start with JFGI and RTFM.

A public meeting place, a Pub, if you will... A place for computer junkies to boldly post Off Topic... Things you might want to tell everyone... Or things you wouldn''t say to anyone else.

fvck off flamejob

QFT.

 

[bigj3347]

Just about every country in asia, with the exception of Japan, I think, use GSM networks. That is why if you unlock ur Tmobile or Cingular Tri band or Quadband phone, you can go to other countries, purchase prepaid SIM cards and use the local networks. I'm not sure about Europe but i think they're GSM as well. This is why I will never use Verizon, I can't take a CDMA phone and use it in Asia, where my family lives.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: bigj3347
Just about every country in asia, with the exception of Japan, I think, use GSM networks. That is why if you unlock ur Tmobile or Cingular Tri band or Quadband phone, you can go to other countries, purchase prepaid SIM cards and use the local networks. I'm not sure about Europe but i think they're GSM as well. This is why I will never use Verizon, I can't take a CDMA phone and use it in Asia, where my family lives.

i had tmobile and i didnt want to switch. but i'm on a family plan and my dad was getting really shtty reception at work so we made the switch.