[LUNI] Cellular devices, and such.

[Trev Peterson]

I don't think that is what Larry is talking about.  The SIM in this
phone is for GSM (to access GSM nets outside the USA).  I'm not sure if
you can use the GSM side only but as far as the CDMA side is concerned
you can't change providers or move to another phone by swapping the SIM
card.  You will need to go to the provider and have a new phone
provisioned.

	Trev

On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 14:12 -0600, William Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 12:32 -0600, Larry Garfield wrote:
> > I get around the crappy phone selection by buying my own damned phone
> > and sticking my SIM card in it, as it should be. You can't do that
> > with CDMA, which is why I refuse to use a CDMA carrier (until one of
> > them starts offering SIM-or-similar phone swapping at the convenience
> > level of GSM).
> 
> In fact, that's not completely true either. What you describe (an
> unlocked SIM/CDMA phone) exists already, and is available from Sprint:
> 
> http://search.sprint.com/inquiraapp/ui.jsp?ui_mode=question&charset=iso-8859-1&language=en-US&user.status=prospect&user.site=UHP&question_box=Blackberry+8830&x=33&y=13
> 

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