Hey, Folks.
I live in Brazil and I'm going to Vancouver/Canada in July to study english for 06 months.
I have a Nexus One with this frequencies: (GSM 3G 850/1900/2100MHz)
Is there any cellphone company that work with this frequencies for 3G? Which one?
I would like to bring my N1 with me and buy a GSM chip from a company that works in this frenquencies for use my 3G.
Thank you!
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Hi,
I'm currently living in Europe (France) but I will be moving to California (San Francisco) in early December. I own a blackstone, which I bought here in France.
How should I expect it to work in San Francisco? From what I understood, I might not enjoy 3G+ ... Is that true?
Any informations welcome
it will not have 3G service. Only the Tesla model will work with 3G in the states. My touch HD works works vary well in San Fran but it is the ausy model
As stated there is no 3G service.
However, plenty of free WiFi areas.
Ok, thank you very much! I guess there IS a 3G service, but my phone isn't compatible, right? In that case I'll just sell my phone before moving ... Or is it possible that there is still no 3G service in SF??
mephisto3333 said:
Ok, thank you very much! I guess there IS a 3G service, but my phone isn't compatible, right? In that case I'll just sell my phone before moving ... Or is it possible that there is still no 3G service in SF??
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3G service in available in all major US cities; your phone needs to have the right US 3G bands. for at&t the 850/1900 band is used for 3G, for T-Mobile (i believe) it's 1700/2100.
what he said, so make sure the phone you buy next is North america 3G compatible (850-1900htz 3G). My Blackstone only has 850 htz 3G but I have never had a area where my ATT fuze was 3G and my Touch HD(ausy model) wasn't.
Okay, all clear now. Thanks a lot for all your help.
Cheers
Hi everybody.
I'm currently in Canada, but I'm from Europe. I noticed Bell is offering Samsung Galaxy S for only 500 CAD without contract (thats 380 euros) which is not much, and I'm really tempted to buy it. The trouble is Bell is CDMA carrier, and europe is GSM. Bells site claims that Galaxy S is "Global Phone" which should mean that it supports european GSM frequences (I Guess). Does anybody know anything about this ? Would this phone work ok in Europe? Would I be able to use GPRS/EDGE/UMTS data connections in Europe?
I was surprised at first but the Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant from Bell is actually a GSM phone!
I'm reading straight from the box:
EDGE / GPRS / GSM Quad band AND HSPA Tri band (850/1900/2100).
So it rocks in Canada and Europe! On 3G and 2G!
I got mine from Best Buy for $560 (including taxes, still a good deal compared to Europe I think).
And now using a Fido monthly plan without contract ^^
Love it !
Sent from my GT-I9000M using XDA App
I recon you would get the best answer by asking a sales person in the store.
maybe even get it in writing incase it turns out to be bull****, so you can get a refund by shipping it back or something
3G runs on 850/1900/2100
you might only get the 1900 if you live in Europe
so it will be mostly 2G unless you are in good ares with 1900 signal to get 3G
defufna said:
Hi everybody.
I'm currently in Canada, but I'm from Europe. I noticed Bell is offering Samsung Galaxy S for only 500 CAD without contract (thats 380 euros) which is not much, and I'm really tempted to buy it. The trouble is Bell is CDMA carrier, and europe is GSM. Bells site claims that Galaxy S is "Global Phone" which should mean that it supports european GSM frequences (I Guess). Does anybody know anything about this ? Would this phone work ok in Europe? Would I be able to use GPRS/EDGE/UMTS data connections in Europe?
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If your really tricky, you will discover that the bell i9000m is actually a QUAD band gsm/wcdma phone.
850/900/1900/2100 WCDMA, and 850/900/1800/1900 GSM
The extra frequencies have to be enabled in the service menu though. (does not require root)
Hi Guys,
I like Epic 4G but in Italy, where I live, this smartphone isn't sold. So, I've found some nice offers on ebay to buy it, but I've a question hoping you can answer to it.
In Italy there are no 4G networks, so will it work if'll use it with H3G usim under 3G networks?
Thanks a lot for your attention.
Regards
yall have cdma in italy?
mauro269 said:
Hi Guys,
I like Epic 4G but in Italy, where I live, this smartphone isn't sold. So, I've found some nice offers on ebay to buy it, but I've a question hoping you can answer to it.
In Italy there are no 4G networks, so will it work if'll use it with H3G usim under 3G networks?
Thanks a lot for your attention.
Regards
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If Italy has 1900/800 Mhz Bands and you (or perhaps the carrier) can find a way to provision the CDMA to look for italy SIDs it then Yes! it will work. Provisioning data may be tricky though. You would just leave the Wi-Max radio on the off position.
There is no CDMA in Italy, it won't work whatsoever.
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There is no CDMA in Italy, it won't work whatsoever.
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This....there's no CDMA in Italy. 3G networks work at 2100 Mhz
Thanks guys for your replies
Ok so I have to admit that in the middle of my excitement, I overlooked this and bought an HTC Legend International version from Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0035ER8OO/ref=oss_product)
Where I live, we get 3G 850Mhz (similar to AT&T), but this phone being international and all only supports 3G on 900/2100 Mhz. I do get GSM 850 with super-slow Edge connection, but no 3G, which is like having a hot woman and not being able to "do" her.
My question is, can the radio on this phone be flashed to converto to 3G 850 (NAM Version) or is it my only option to sell this phone immediately?
rpereira said:
Ok so I have to admit that in the middle of my excitement, I overlooked this and bought an HTC Legend International version from Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0035ER8OO/ref=oss_product)
Where I live, we get 3G 850Mhz (similar to AT&T), but this phone being international and all only supports 3G on 900/2100 Mhz. I do get GSM 850 with super-slow Edge connection, but no 3G, which is like having a hot woman and not being able to "do" her.
My question is, can the radio on this phone be flashed to converto to 3G 850 (NAM Version) or is it my only option to sell this phone immediately?
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You may only get faster GPRS/Edge speed by playing with some build.prop settings but that's about it AFAIK
Thanks for the reply, I just put it up for sale on my facebook and local market with the excuse that I bought it for my wife and she thinks is too complex and prefers Blackberry. hopefully someone will buy it and I can order me a new phone with the right 3G band support .
I want to get a Nexus S for myself, the unlocked without contract one, because I would like to use it in my home country (Malaysia).
So I would like to confirm one thing before I proceed:
I saw this from BestBuy forum FAQs:
Will an unlocked Nexus S work with carriers other than T-Mobile?
Yes, but it won’t run on 3G with all carriers. Speed and power will be reduced on non-3G networks.
Is that means that even though Nexus S did support the 3G band of my home country, it won't run on the 3G network?! Means that I can't use the 3G in my home country?
Anyone have answer for this? Anyone tried buy N1 and got the 3G working in country outside US?
gotta be 1700/2100 MHz i believe
Wont' work. Malaysia uses 2100mhz band for 3G.
The Nexus S on T-Mobile uses BOTH 1700/2100mhz AT THE SAME TIME for 3G.
It will work fine since the 3G band in Malaysia is 2100MHz and the Nexus S supports those bands.
I had the Nexus One (T-Mobile Version) in Thailand and it worked perfectly fine on 2100MHz 3G. My N900 worked as well.
Don't listen to nxt or slowz3r they have no idea of what they are talking about.
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Anyone have answer for this? Anyone tried buy N1 and got the 3G working in country outside US?
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You wont have a problem with most 3g phones in Malaysia - most of the rest of the world uses standard frequencies and the nexus s and nexus 1 work just fine.
If a phone works in Europe then it'll be fine in malaysia, and indeed most of the rest of the world.
Most of the noise on here is from people in the US where there are some weird frequencies being used... you can only use 3g on T-Mobile there -at+t uses different frequencies, and sprint and Verizon use a completely different technology.
Thank you for all the useful replies!
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