what unlocked "unofficial" high end phone is good with T-mobile?
i really want to get the Sony Ericsson K750/W800 or the w550i, and i'm obviously not getting it through T-Mobile cuz they don't offer it...
so i'm just afraid that any of these phones will A) get bad reception because they're not "official" phones or B) internet or such like that won't 'work right' cuz of same reason.
how does any of those phones work for any of u t-mobile customers?
so i'm just afraid that any of these phones will A) get bad reception because they're not "official" phones or B) internet or such like that won't 'work right' cuz of same reason.
how does any of those phones work for any of u t-mobile customers?
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The reception and internet should be ok. What may/may not work is specific features of the phone that T-Mobile does not offer. The phone may also not support features that T-Mobile does offer.
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I bought a Sony Ericsson K300i (not exactly high end but amazing anyway) and unlocked it from vodafone spain...it works great with tmobile. When i applied their wap settings manually, it did not work exactly but i went to their website and they can send u the settings and all u have to do is click "install" or somthing on ur phone and it works magically! IDK what happens when your phone is branded to another carrier, because i debranded mine to standard sonyericsson.
Reception is just as good as far as i can tell.... also they can send u picture messaging settings.
Reception is just as good as far as i can tell.... also they can send u picture messaging settings.
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ToarTimothy said:
i really want to get the Sony Ericsson K750/W800 or the w550i, and i'm obviously not getting it through T-Mobile cuz they don't offer it...
so i'm just afraid that any of these phones will A) get bad reception because they're not "official" phones or B) internet or such like that won't 'work right' cuz of same reason.
how does any of those phones work for any of u t-mobile customers?
A) doesn't have a thing to do with bad reception. Either your handset has good reception or bad reception (as several Ericsson and Sony-Ericssons have done in the past.)
B) Just because the settings aren't hard coded into the handset doesn't mean you can't easily put them on there. T-Mobile has ...
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Can someone explain unlocked versus unbranded? Because it seems there is a difference in the features one might be able to use. I am hoping to buy a Nokia 6682 later this year but I want to use it on TMobile. The phone is currently exclusive to Cingular. Explanations would be great.
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bonvie said:
Can someone explain unlocked versus unbranded? Because it seems there is a difference in the features one might be able to use. I am hoping to buy a Nokia 6682 later this year but I want to use it on TMobile. The phone is currently exclusive to Cingular. Explanations would be great.
Unlocked means that you can use any SIM in the handset. Unbranded means that the handset either was never sold by an operator or any branding has been removed by doing a firmware flash. It is a very common practice that when an operator markets a handset and it gets to the consumer things such as data settings are hard-coded into the handset's firmware. If a subscriber wishes to use data settings from another op...
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Thank you for the info. Aplogies for being a newbie. So I am assuming that if I buy the phone unlocked (maybe unbranded?) and take the phone to TMobile, they will "flash" it so it can work on their network. But I will not lose built in things such as print from phone, games, and the mini office apps (word/excel/etc), ability to sync with my ibook, full bluetooth. I only ask these questions because my current provider (Verizon) sold me a wonderful LG8100 but keeps the features disabled even though they are built into the phone. Don't care about the little splash screens etc. Just want ALL the functionality that is built into the phone to actually be useable.
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bonvie said:
Thank you for the info. Aplogies for being a newbie. So I am assuming that if I buy the phone unlocked (maybe unbranded?) and take the phone to TMobile, they will "flash" it so it can work on their network. But I will not lose built in things such as print from phone, games, and the mini office apps (word/excel/etc), ability to sync with my ibook, full bluetooth. I only ask these questions because my current provider (Verizon) sold me a wonderful LG8100 but keeps the features disabled even though they are built into the phone. Don't care about the little splash screens etc. Just want ALL the functionality that is built into the phone to actually be useable.
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What kind of trashy answer is that? The poster of this thread has a legit question to ask.
You don't have to hate T-Mobile, you know? It's just a cell phone carrier.
You don't have to hate T-Mobile, you know? It's just a cell phone carrier.
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look "braveheart" slow down! if he would of asked me that in the vzw or cingy or sprint forum he would of gotten the same answer. it seem there are no good "high-end phones" out right now. if ToarTimothy wants any good unlocked high end phones its not going to happen for him unless he looks for an oversea unlock phone then he hit the jackpot.
nokia 7710 is hot but none of the features of the phone will work on t-mob's network yea pic msgs. and maybe web can be programmed but dvb-h wont. and a slew of other capabilities. (by the way that's the phone in the missy elliot video) i wish it was an american phone i would hop on it.
nokia 7710 is hot but none of the features of the phone will work on t-mob's network yea pic msgs. and maybe web can be programmed but dvb-h wont. and a slew of other capabilities. (by the way that's the phone in the missy elliot video) i wish it was an american phone i would hop on it.
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the best phone to get with tha is the motorola v80, i had that and it had great reception, for the internet thing, call up tmobile and tell them u got an unlocked V600 an that ur internet isnt workin, they will send u tha internet
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