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| Thread ID: 49495 | 2004-09-21 02:20:00 | what to look out for in a phone | zaeburn (4688) | Press F1 |
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| 274273 | 2004-09-21 02:20:00 | i'm buying an n-gage QD over in america in a few days and i want to know what things i need to look out for like network locks ect. | zaeburn (4688) | ||
| 274274 | 2004-09-21 03:33:00 | Be careful. I think that comes in 2 variants, only one of which has the correct band for NZ? "Dual-band phone (two regional variants: EGSM 900/GSM1800 and GSM 850/1900)" "Two frequency bands are used by GSM services in the US. Two different frequency bands are used by GSM services elsewhere in the world." Check with Vodafone as to which you need here. Its probably not something you can change, it's likely the way it's manufactured. It's likely to be the wrong frequency if murphy's law still works. Anything prepay will likely be network locked, as will anything "on special" from a teleco. But if its the wrong band, then its immaterial anyway. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 274275 | 2004-09-21 03:38:00 | there are a lot of them for sale on trade me so that must mean that they work over here right. | zaeburn (4688) | ||
| 274276 | 2004-09-21 03:50:00 | There are 2 models according to Google. As per my post. One will work here. One will probably not work here. Some parts (or all?) of the US use the different model to NZ. Ask Vodafone. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 274277 | 2004-09-21 04:12:00 | > there are a lot of them for sale on trade me so that > must mean that they work over here right. Yes cause the people who sell things on TradeMe are really trustworthy and wont try to conn you. |
Pete O'Neil (250) | ||
| 274278 | 2004-09-21 04:31:00 | sure some try to conn ,but there are some cell phone importers and there have feed back in the thousands and they sell lots on the n-gage QD. If i take my sim card over and put it in one of them and it works there would it mean that it would work here. | zaeburn (4688) | ||
| 274279 | 2004-09-21 04:42:00 | No it would not mean that it would work here . Your SIM card may work over there (if roaming has been enabled) and the phone may work over there, but they have a different frequency of cell site transmitters/receivers . So when you get the phone back here, it cannot talk or hear . Wrong hardware . As I understand it (but PLEASE ask Vodafone) the US use 850/1900 MHz . As I understand it, NZ uses 900 Mhz . So you need the 900/1800 model for it to work here . But that model will not work over there . Look on Google . Many phones are lables US ONLY, due to the 850/1900 MHz bands . You need a tri-band phone to work in both places . 850/900/1900 The n-gage is not tri-band . Those are usually quite expensive . |
godfather (25) | ||
| 274280 | 2004-09-21 10:18:00 | Life gets tedious don't it? | Young Tom (5503) | ||
| 274281 | 2004-09-21 11:10:00 | hey that doesn't help except wast a few bytes on the server and my time . the original n-gage is tri-band but the QD (which i want to get) is dual band . I think i will just buy one over here off one of the cell phone importers on Trade me what do you guys think . |
zaeburn (4688) | ||
| 274282 | 2004-09-21 19:21:00 | > what do you guys think. Since you ask, I struggle to see the purpose of the device. If you want a game device then buy one. If you need a phone then buy one. Why settle for a mediocre one of each, just because it's combined. |
godfather (25) | ||
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