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Cell phone purchase from Inet?
Ah once again I search and search for answers to life's questions and end up back here at good old Pelican OT BBS. Anyway, I want to get my wife a new cell phone for Christmas. I have purchased a lot of things from Ebay over the years and every single experience has been positive. For instance, I just purchased a pair of Spy Optics sunglasses that cost over $100 in store and from the manufacturer's web site. On Ebay I paid $59 + 2.50 shipping and it got to me in 2 days in perfect condition. So I see that I can buy my wife a V3 Razor for $83 on Ebay that has a regular cost of $249 at BestBuy. Hard one to pass up. Here is my question to those of you who know cell phones and wireless service. Will I be able to just literally pluck the wife's sim card out of the 2+ year old phone she has now and stick it in the new one and it will start working? Am I missing a pitfall here like: will need to call your service provider and upgrade/jack up the price of or service for it to work, will it possible not be compatible with her present service, sim card, or our region of operation? Thanks !
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Who is here current provider?
Sprint and Verizon do not use SIMS. AT&T and T-mobile are interchangeable IF you buy an UNLOCKED phone. Otherwise buy one that is known to work with your current provider.
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She is with AT&T formerly Cingulair. The adds I have seen do use the work "unlocked" I am guessing that means it has never been used with any service provider.
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I have T-Mobile which uses SIM cards. I bought the wife a Treo 650 that was unlocked from ebay a couple of years ago. It worked fine. I've also purchased 3 other inexpensive Nokias off of ebay that have worked fine.
It's important that the phone that you purchase is either for your provider, or uses the same frequencies/technology and is unlocked to work with any provider.
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Cool!
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I have bought several cell phones off of Ebay and if they are unlocked, they should work with any GSM/GPRS system out there. Only if you are on a Verison or other non-GSM system will it not work.
Should be no problem with the V3 series if she is with ATT. I am on ATT and my phone and blackberry works fine from here. In the last 4 days have been in 6 countries in Europe and no issues what so ever in any country.
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