SLVR L7 - cingular only?

[ssj300]

so i heard that the phone is locked to cingular sim cards only

is that true?

anyone tried tmobile sim card? or anything else

 

[Benjamindaines]

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)

 

[spencecb]

Yeah, Cingular gets all the new phones first, before anyone else.

 

[themacman]

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)

even sprint? i thought they didnt use sim cards

 

[Benjamindaines]

even sprint? i thought they didnt use sim cards

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.

 

[mkrishnan]

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.

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]

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.

Nextel does now

 

[mkrishnan]

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?

 

[iMeowbot]

Bah. Nextel phones use SIM cards, but iDEN isn't quite GSM

 

[Benjamindaines]

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]

Well, technically you already do. Sprint and Nextel are the same company now.

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.

 

[r6girl]

so i heard that the phone is locked to cingular sim cards only

is that true?

anyone tried tmobile sim card? or anything else

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...

 

[iMeowbot]

Did all the Nextel customers end up getting new handsets or something?

I still have my bright yellow bouncy Nextel phone and it still works...

 

[ssj300]

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...

what type of cingular features r u talkin about?

i found some websites tat sell unlocked versions of the cingular slvr. could these "features" be accessable even with a t mobile sim.