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kaybella
Posts: 43 |
 
Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:23 pm |
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I was curious if you were running a unlocked phone on a cingular network, would that be less likeley to get a strong signal due to being unlocked? I have heard a few different views. I was told that if the phone is a quad band you have the same strenght as a branded phone. I also heard an unlocked searches around for the best signal and that causes it to be less strong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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peryus88
Posts: 459
Service Provider:
at&t |
Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:39 pm |
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Nope, you'll still get the same signal strength, unlocked or not.
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kaybella
Posts: 43 |
Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:42 pm |
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Thanks for the reply pery. So other then having the MMS and internet pre loaded on a branded phone, is there any othe radvantage of having a locked phone compared to an unlcoked phone? Thanks again.
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gerio
Posts: 376
Phone Model:
3G iPhone, by Golly!! And a couple of Razrs
Service Provider:
AT&T & Cellular South |
Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:47 pm |
(Keeping my head down and looking over my shoulder...  )
The advantage to a locked phone is that you'll already have the carrier's settings for things like voice mail, multi-media messaging, internet browsing and other things particular to that carrier. The disadvantage, if you see it that way, is that you'll have to put up with the carrier's little tweaks to the phone such as start-up and shutdown themes and graphics and their version of the home screen, if any. Just depends on how individual you want your phone to be. I've had both locked and unlocked phones and don't care one way or the other.
Geri O
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peryus88
Posts: 459
Service Provider:
at&t |
Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:49 pm |
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There are people I know that prefer to purchase branded phones instead because if there is anything wrong with the handset, they can usually fall back on the service provider to replace it or anything else concerning warranty.
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Cptech31
Posts: 573
Phone Model:
LG
Service Provider:
Hmm what service |
Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:09 am |
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Yea with a carrier branded device you can use the warrenty exchange department, with an unlocked device you have deal with the manf. With the carriers warrenty program you are sent a replacment device and you send in the deffective deffective device. with the manf program you mail them you device and they repair it and mail it back to you sometimes this can take greater than 30 days to do
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steva11
Posts: 1687
Phone Model:
w810i/pearl
Service Provider:
Rogers |
Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:08 pm |
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also, if the phone is from overseas, check the frequency bands it runs.
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Jadall
Posts: 389
Phone Model:
Nokia 3300,Nokia n-gage, SEt290a
Service Provider:
Cingular |
Thu Aug 31, 2006 6:44 pm |
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yes like nokia sometimes makes tri band phones in 2 models north american international and sometimes china version of same phones for triband type phones. and dual band the same way there if they make them.so there might be 3 versions of the same exact model phone. The other thing I mention is that the phone has more memory as unlocked. the service provider uses some of that memory my nokia 3300 has over 6 megs of memory on the device memory even tho it's advertized as 4.5 megs on all the reviews and information so possibly the rest is the software from service provider.
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