Unlocked v. Locked Phones
My experience with using unlocked phones (usually they come from Europe when ordered here in the US) - is that they seem to have a harder time keeping the signal and seem to loose a weak signal a lot quicker? Is this just my imagination or is there something that T-Mobile does to its branded phones that will make them inherently more stable? (I'm using an unlocked Nokia 6230 at the moment)
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well GSM net works are going to be slightly diff from US to Europe, tmobile tests several diff models and only releases the ones that work well on there/our network, main diff i know of in Europe GSM net is it's more tight packed
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I work for a dealership that (among other things) sells a lot of unlocked phones that we import from Europe or from Hong Kong. As far as the actual signal strength goes, they seem about the same, but we do have a lot more problems with the unlocked phones than the locked ones that we sell for T-Mobile. I think the reason is that T-Mobile is pretty good about testing their phones for performance or compatability issues on their network. When you get an unlocked phone though . . . it does use the same basic set of standards, but some of the features may or may not work on T-Mobile's network. (You don't even know how many hours I've spent at times manually configuring the GPRS settings on a new shipment of phones only to find out that there...
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towers every where, more tightly ppacked togethor, they dont have to work on the fringe out outerlimits of coverage like we do
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you guys are crazy, GSM is GSM is GSM is GSM as long as the phone supports 1900mhz GSM your phone will work fine, i just got an SE V802sh (flashed w/ z800 firmware) and it works wonderful here (california) and it actually grabs a better signal then my E715 did, the GPRS settings of course will vary per phone but again GPRS is GPRS is GPRS is GPRS, if you have the settings for the phone then the phone can connect to the internet, maybe on the t-zones home page you wont have as many options (which is what seems to happen whenever you use an unlocked phone for any carrier) but thats it
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That is not technically correct. Some unlocked GSM phones will first search for a specific frequency. If they came from Europe or Asia then they will not default to the US T-Mobile band immediately which can cause a dealy in finding a signal.
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mauizenman said:
That is not technically correct. Some unlocked GSM phones will first search for a specific frequency. If they came from Europe or Asia then they will not default to the US T-Mobile band immediately which can cause a dealy in finding a signal.
my phone finds signal immediately, neither did my moms D500 when i got it for her last week
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and if you are tweekin about a 2 second latency, find something new to complain about
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