My new cell phone..

I don't suppose there is a snowball in hell's chance that this phone will ever be offered to Sprint customers.

Yeah.....I didn't think so.

Cool phone

 

Purchase one and have it unlocked.

 

Rosso Corsa i belive

 

Sigh......what will they think of next?

 

I think Vodaphone is part owner of Verizon in the States. Maybe we'll get it here as part of that network.

 

Nice phone, I'm shopping around for a new one now. Any chance you want to send one across the pond?

 

What do you mean "unlocked".

If I did buy this phone, could I just take it to Sprint and have it activated?

I apologize if my ignorance is stunning.

 

If we do, I WILL buy this phone. How's the quality on that phone, reception, etc?

 

Might not be appropriate, but just out of curiosity...how much was it? I know that all Ferrari branded merchandise is incredibly expensive.

 

Go to howardforums.com and you can learn all about this stuff.

most phones are carrier locked so they can only work on that network. You should be able to use an unlocked CDMA phone on the sprint network but I know people that have tried and sprint would not let them b/c they werent originally sold as a sprint phone. Sprint, verizon and i think alltell are all CDMA networks.

I went with gsm (cingular, tmobile) your acct info is on a little card called a sim. I can just buy whatever gsm phone I want and put my sim card in it and use it without having to set foot in the store.

 

Sduke all carriers do not have the same frequencies so they don't carry the same phones. Also even if you get the same phone they will not work with different carriers and in different states. So if it works in Verizon it won't work in sprint even if it is the same phone.

 

I think that phone is actually a gsm phone so it wouldn't work with sprint at all.

 

People have been able to use unlocked verizon cdma 1900 phones on the sprint cdma 1900 network. The hard part is getting someone at sprint to go through to trouble of getting it on. From what I've heard the computer only accepts sprint ESN #s so you would have to get around that.

 

RATS !!!

I just got off the phone with a tech for Verizon in Waco - it's a no go. European phones use GSM technology and US phones use CDMA technology and unfortunately the chips are not compatible. I even asked about replacing the chip and he told me that I'd have to contact Qual-Com in San Diego as they are the chip makers. Unfortunately, the don't carry the phone anyway.

Several years ago Motorola V60 (I think it was that one) also came in a Ferrari cover. Last year in Maranello I visited the Vodafone store which is about three doors down from Il Cavallino and much to my dismay they had nothing. So I solved the Ferrari phone problem and put a Ferrari sticker from one of the Hot Wheels on my Motorola cell phone - looks great! I plan to check out the Vodafone store in Maranello next week and their large (actually extremely large) display at the San Marino GP the following week.

Carol

 

(Cliffs Notes: Buy an unlocked one and it'll definetly work on T-Mobile in America and should work fine on Cingular.)


America currently uses 3 Standards for cell/mobile phones. Verizon and Sprint (And Alltel/USCellular/Cricket/etc) use CDMA aka Code Division Multiple Access.

Nextel, Boost and Southern LINC use iDEN.

AT&T and Cingular USED to use TDMA and there's still a lot of AMPS Analog phones out there.

T-Mobile and Cingular (which now owns AT&T Wireless) use GSM. GSM is pretty much used worldwide and is effectively the world standard.

GSM Phones use SIM cards which store your account info and contacts, you can use your SIM card in ANY GSM phone assuming it's unlocked. When people say a phone is "locked" or "unlocked" in GSM-Speak they mean that there is or is not a carrier simlock on the phone. Buy a new RAZR from cingular and pop in a Non-Cingular SIM card and it won't work. However you can have the ph0oen unlocked for $10 so it will take any SIM card. All my phones are unlocked. The nice thing about an unlocked GSM phone is that you can use a prepaid SIM card for when you go to Europe and save a small fortune on calls.

The other question is GSM Frequencies.. In America we primarially use 1900mhZ for GSM, and Cingular also uses 850 (sometimes called 800MhZ) in many areas. Europe uses 900 MhZ or 1800MhZ. So a 900/1800 phone will not work in America.

http://www.mobilmania.cz/Mobilnitelefony/Ar.asp?ARI=109633&CHID=2&EXPS=&EXPA=

That's a link to the phone, I can't read Czech (Can anyone translate maybe?) but it looks like it's a Tri-Band phone that WILL work in America with T-Mobile and will work with Cingular in most areas as long as it's been unlocked from Vodafone. Imported phones usually won't work with internet as it'll have software for Vodafone Live or something like that which wont be supported by a US Carrier. Looks like a pretty nice phone BTW... as best as I can tell this is a pretty kick-ass device, 2.0 Megapixel camera, Bluetooth, huge color screen, etc...

Sorry for boring y'all to death.

 

Not true. I have a Cingular RAZR V3 and just came back from Vietnam last week. I used a Vietnamese Mobifone SIM card on their network without having to unlock the phone and it worked perfectly.

While on the subject of Cingular's service, I also subscribed to their International Roaming Service. During the day, I have the Mobifone card in the phone and it was good for calls within Vietnam. In the morning and evening, I put the Cingular card back in (it was daytime here at nighttime there) so I could recieve calls from the US using my Cingular number. While on the Cingular SIM, the card registered on the Vinafone network automatically. In fact, while connecting from one flight to another in Taipei it also registered on the Taiwanese GSM network and I could place calls home on my cell phone rather than having to buy a SIM card or use a calling card on a payphone. Not cheap, but the IR service is retty cool.

 

I'm surprised that the Vietnamese SIM worked in your phone. I have a RAZR that I use on T-Mobile and had to have it unlocked to take a T-Mobile SIM card.

Maybe you have one that slipped through the cracks? Any Tri or Quad Band phone will basically work anywhere in the World.. I've used my V600 with my US T-Mobile SIM card in it all over Europe, in Israel and in South Africa without problems. Unlocking the phone is a big nothing tho, rarely costs more than $10-15 and they can give you the code over the phone with your IMEI # (Press *#06# and it pops up automatically).

 

Before at&t became cingular they sent me a list of places in the world where I could use my phone without changing anything and it would just bill my at&t bill. Do any of you know if this changed since the take over?

It is nice to not have to get another phone and a prepaid sim for where your going.

 

It'll still work. If you have a tri or quad band phone, any Cingular, AT&T or T-Mobile phone will work pretty much anywhere in the world. The problem is cost. If I call America from Britain using my American T-Mobile SIM, it costs something like $1/min. If I use a prepaid Virgin Mobile card (They use T-Mobile's network in the UK and a locked T-Mobile phone will work fine with a virgin mobile SIM) it's 10p/Min or about 18c/Min to call America.

Call back home for an hour or two a day and this does add up if you're there for a week or so.

 

It's my understanding that most carrier's lock their phones, but usually only for a certain length of time. If say you've had your phone for longer than your contract period, most automatically unlock them. Some other keep them locked for only the first few months of a contract. I have no idea why exactly, but this was in the business section of last Sunday's Washington Post.

 

There is also a nextel designed by pinninfarina the I833. Costs a bundle though.

http://www.mobiletracker.net/archives/2004/08/18/motorola_pininf.php

 

If you guys just want some Ferrari look on your cellphone, go to Chinatown or Koreantown near you, find the cellphone store, then you can find some case w/ F logo, red case, and you can slap on Ferrari sticker. It won't look expensive or classy, but may satisfy your desire. Of course, you can find some red cases on regular cell phone stores, too. (I saw PB bunny, LV logo, & Stussey logo on cases few days ago, when I tagged along w/ a friend to Indian cell phone store)