Man you guys are geniouses! My fiance's dad uses Tmobile, he lost his phone on a trip, asked if I could send him his old phone, but it's 2 hours away. I have a Samsung SCH-A670 (Verizon) that is practically brand new, and offered that but he does't think it is compatible. Is it? Does it need to be unlocked or something?
I appreciate the help guys, great forum!
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steva11 Posts: 1677
Phone Model: w810i/pearl
Service Provider: Rogers
Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:35 pm
a verizon phone won't work on a t-mobile account. t-mo runs GSM and verizon is CDMA. the two technologies don't mix. he needs a GSM phone to work with his account.
tylerz Posts: 2
Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:52 pm
The back of the phone says, Dual Mode GMS/GPRS.
steva11 Posts: 1677
Phone Model: w810i/pearl
Service Provider: Rogers
Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:39 pm
if the phone says GSM it's not a verizon phone. but if it's a GSM phone (does it take a sim card?) then it will work with your dad's account.
steve0092 Posts: 174
Phone Model: motorola v330
Service Provider: t-mobile
Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:39 pm
sprint and verizon can use each other unlock phone and t-mobile and cingular can use ea other lunlock phones.
roberts1953 Posts: 13
Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:11 am
Sprint and Verizon, allthough both CDMA wont activate a phone that isn't their own. They will only acivate a branded phone that is on their ESN list.
milkmantucker Posts: 1
Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:42 pm
so if t-mobile is a gsm carrier i can use any unlocked gsm phone such as a Philips S900 or Pantech PG-8000??
kansaigal Posts: 3
Phone Model: Samsung z510, LG UX355, Sanyo J-SA06
Service Provider: TMobile, USCellular, Softbank
Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:15 pm
Well, if OP had a Samsung SCH-a795, he'd be in luck:
dual-mode CDMA 1900/800 and GSM 900/1800.
elmo01 Posts: 2342
Phone Model: Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider: Bell Canada
Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:33 pm
kansaigal wrote:
Well, if OP had a Samsung SCH-a795, he'd be in luck:
dual-mode CDMA 1900/800 and GSM 900/1800.
not if the OP lived in north america...the GSM freq's here are 850 and 1900 mhz....
McGirk Posts: 2411
Phone Model: AX380 Wave
Service Provider: Alltel
Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:57 pm
My company sold Verizon phones breifly but this area isn't very good for Verizon, so we switched to AllTel which works much better. Being stuck with all the phones we attempted selling the Verizon phones to our AllTel customers, unfortunately every time the AllTel programmed phone went into a Verizon owned area it woul revert back to Verizon's software and need to get reprogrammed back to AllTel to work properly again. We ended eating a lot of phones that way.
