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american phones

  • 12-09-2008 11:22pm
    #1
    metalfest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,016 ✭✭✭


    just wondering if anyone has had any experience with american phones and using them here???


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  • #2
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    yes, unlocked american gsm phones will work here provided they are tri or quad band. us tri bands are 850/1800/1900 and eu ones are 900/1800/1900.

    i cant remember what the popular bands are here, but i think 900 is the least used. i could be wrong though.

    some other american phone networks operate with a "simless" method that i know little about, but these phones wont work of course.

    so, if you're bringing back a us phone make sure its 1. gsm and 2. at best triband.


  • #3
    metalfest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,016 ✭✭✭metalfest


    hmm, yeah, we ue 900/1800 i think,
    i know there are some phones that are patented by networks, do you think these are the "simless" ones?


  • #4
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    i dont know what you mean by patented. but it could refer to simless. afaik the sprint network on the east cost is one of these. so avoid those phones.


  • #5
    metalfest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,016 ✭✭✭metalfest


    like, , this is purely to explain what i mean ..imagine if nokia develope the 7263 then meteor decide, oh we want that phone to be used just for us, they buy then copyright, ownership, everything, but nokia still make it, but not sim free or anything like that, just for meteor...hope you understand


  • #6
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    it sounds like you're referring to a simlocked phone.

    see here for more info


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  • #7
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    120_Minutes wrote: »
    it sounds like you're referring to a simlocked phone.

    see here for more info

    Ehhh... Not at all. Metalfest is refering to a phone such as the 6234 on vodafone.


  • #8
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,260 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    120_Minutes wrote: »
    it sounds like you're referring to a simlocked phone.

    see here for more info

    And i think the simless phones you are refering you are CDMA phones.


  • #9
    metalfest
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,016 ✭✭✭metalfest


    i'm just wondering because i'm looking into getting a phone from the states...
    preferably a htc, or a phone that slides like it..


  • #10
    120_Minutes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,706 ✭✭✭120_Minutes


    jmccrohan wrote: »
    Ehhh... Not at all. Metalfest is refering to a phone such as the 6234 on vodafone.

    Ah an exclusive. ok. but he could easily have been describing a simlocked phone too.


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