A quick question about unlocked phones w/ Tmobile
My friend has T-Mobile and would like to use an unlocked Sony T630.
Question: I've heard if he puts his sim card in the unlocked phone, voice services will be fine, but data (texts, specifically) won't work... is this true?
What are the downsides to using an unlocked phone? I understand that they won't be able to be serviced by T-Mobile, I'm more interested in functionality issues.
Thanks in advance.
Question: I've heard if he puts his sim card in the unlocked phone, voice services will be fine, but data (texts, specifically) won't work... is this true?
What are the downsides to using an unlocked phone? I understand that they won't be able to be serviced by T-Mobile, I'm more interested in functionality issues.
Thanks in advance.
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Functionality it should be fine. For the website stuff to work you would need to call t-mobile customer service and they will give you the settings and it will work fine.
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Not necessarily. T-Mobile simply pushing the settings thru DOTAC (Device Over The Air Configurator) will not resolve all problems. You may still experience issues because of the device not being sold by them.
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yourmomgoestocollege said:
Not necessarily. T-Mobile simply pushing the settings thru DOTAC (Device Over The Air Configurator) will not resolve all problems. You may still experience issues because of the device not being sold by them.
While this is true, it's not so much because we don't just sell it. Any unlocked device not previously branded by T-Mobile, or any carrier for that matter has not been through the testing, fielding, appicable software updates etc...before our engineers officially approve it for use on our network. While this is NOT always the case, unlocked phones just do not perform as strongly as they could if they were picked up and branded by a carrier. Plus, even though the carrier ca...
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