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SLVR L7 - cingular only?
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That's how all these "cool" phones start out. Then eventually other companies get the phones too. Also you can have the phone unlocked for an extra fee, then you can use the phone on any service (except Verizon)
I don't know anything about them but if they don't use SIM cards then you can't use the phone until they start offering it.themacman said:
Benjamindaines said:
Sprint doesn't use GSM. They use CDMA. So no SIM card. But the phones are still locked. Not to mention that no one else uses Sprint-compatible handsets in the US anyway.
Benjamindaines said:Nextel does now
Eeep, I guess that's true. Although....
So right now, if you have a Sprint phone, can you get a Nextel plan without changing hardware?
Well, technically you already do. Sprint and Nextel are the same company now.mkrishnan said:Eeep, I guess that's true. Although....
Benjamindaines said:
So is the technical merger complete? Did all the Nextel customers end up getting new handsets or something? There still seems to be a separate Nextel section of the combined store.
ssj300 said:
if you buy the phone from cingular, yes, it's locked and can only be used with a cingular sim card. but there are unlocked and unbranded versions out there - i bought one and it worked just find with my at&t sim card (before i switched to a cingular plan). i have yet to try it with my new cingular sim card but it should work without any problems.
i now have 2 slvrs - the unlocked one i bought first and another one i got through cingular. i'm going to keep the locked cingular one, and sell the unlocked one on ebay (the cingular one has itunes, and accessing some of the cingular features is easier than on the unlocked version...