Using Other GSM Phones
i was wondering can you program any gsm phone for cingular as long as the frequency's are the same or has the same ones listed to use as long as there unlocked?? i was wondering that cause i did a google search and found a bunch of kick a#$ phones that are gsm that use 3 of the same freq's as cingular? so if i buy one of them i could use it right ??????
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Yup, as long as it has the 850 mhz band its good to go. In all reality it doesnt even necessarily need the 850 band but it is good to have to avoid roaming problems. Some states however may only use one of the bands. For example, in my state (VA) Cingular supposedly only uses the 1900 band which is found on pretty much all GSM phones. So I could technically get any unlocked GSM phone and not have any problems. But, of course, I choose to avoid any possibility of having problems. Hope this helps 😳
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uNt0uChAbLe said:
Yup, as long as it has the 850 mhz band its good to go. In all reality it doesnt even necessarily need the 850 band but it is good to have to avoid roaming problems. Some states however may only use one of the bands. For example, in my state (VA) Cingular supposedly only uses the 1900 band which is found on pretty much all GSM phones. So I could technically get any unlocked GSM phone and not have any problems. But, of course, I choose to avoid any possibility of having problems. Hope this helps 😳
And I meant to add on to that that all you need to do is pop in your SIM card and the new phone is good to go. If its unbranded and unlocked then you may need to get the WAP/MMS settings for the...
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Nice 😁 thx for the lil bit of info that helped me a lil more.
so pretty much anything as long as the freq are the same and unlocked that is pimp
so pretty much anything as long as the freq are the same and unlocked that is pimp
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Yup, Ive used a couple of phones that CIngular doesnt offer on their network. Its one of the biggest advantages IMO that GSM has over CDMA.
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has any of the other phones that you have used prove to be more beneficial signal wise or about the same?
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Not really to be honest. I will say that I just got the Treo 650 and it picks up in places that none of my other phones have.
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devious1 said:
so pretty much anything as long as the freq are the same and unlocked that is pimp
not so much the freq are the same, like the previous poster said: make sure it is both 850/1900. 900/1800 is used overseas, not in the US. a majority of the US is 850 with Cingular, hence the reason we stopped carrying phones that don't use 850. hate to see you buy a phone that wont work for you. i see it in my store often.
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so tha main thing is to make sure it has the 850 on it morre or less..
that bring the question of doesnt cingulars roaming partners or some of the partners use something other than 850 or is the vast majority of them use 850??
that bring the question of doesnt cingulars roaming partners or some of the partners use something other than 850 or is the vast majority of them use 850??
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Umm if Im not mistaken Cingular is the only one that uses 850 but they also use 1900 which is what most of their roaming partners use. So they would roam on the 1900. Someone correct me if Im wrong.
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doesn't really mater i guess but Centenial and CellOne (Dobson communications) uses GSM 850 in michigan.
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k that's cool my main areas are going to be wis, ill, ind, mich, minn, and ohio maybe, so from what i can gather the main freqs are 850 and the 1900so i should be good to go with a differant phone outside of cingy if i decide to do so later on...
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I think T-Mo is primarily 1900MHz so if Cingy still has roaming agreements with 'em....
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