My company is still using the dying Nextel, and phone they issued is an ancient Motorola. I know Nextel is part of Sprint now. Does it mean I can use any sprint phone in Nextel network? I'm thinking to get an used Sprint Touch for this. Any suggestions? Thanks!
I don't live in USA, but if I recall right Sprint is a CDMA carrier, therefore you have a Vogue not an Elf, Nextel uses GSM phones (ELF) which is a different technology to CDMA making them incompatible.
My Nextel phone does have a SIM card. I put into a unlocked GSM world phone, but it doesn't seem to work.
Does CDMA phone also have a SIM card?
CDMA does not use SIM cards
I'm new to all this, but can anyone help me? I had the HTC Touch Dual purchased in the UK and i gave it to my brother in the USA, he says the phone sometimes cuts him off, he has spoken to a few people that said this phone doesn't support the 1800 network. is this true and if so is this a hardware problem or can the ROM be upgraded??
Many thanks
There are three versions of the Touch Dual, GSM EUrope, GSM North AMerica and CDMA. Most likely you have the GSM europe version. AT&T USA requires the 850/1900 bands for bothe Voice and 3g data.
this is a hardware restriction. You are SOL.
I'm just curious if there's anyone out there with an HD2 on Verizon? If not, is it possible to do it? The HD2 is a quad band device, so doesn't it have the hardware capable to be on a CDMA network? I was thinking that if I bought an unlocked HD2, I would be able to put it on my account with Verizon. I guess I would have to be running a different radio in order to do that though.
Anyone have any thoughts, comments, suggestions? I really want one of these phones, but I can't switch from Verizon because no other provider gives me 3g in my area. Plus, my Touch Pro 2 is getting dated compared to that 1gz Snapdragon!
HD2 is a GSM phone. Pretty sure it can't be made to work on a CDMA network.
Technology
GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
WCDMA/HSPA: 1700 MHz (AWS) / 2100 MHz
Taken from the HD2 tech specs on HTC's website.
If it has a CDMA radio, why couldn't it work if it were unlocked?
Does Verizon have a sim card to put in the phone? If not, how can they make it work on their network.
Verizon does have sim cards, they use them in the Blackberry Storm, which is both GSM/CDMA ...
But It may be like the storm if it is activated via the IMEI that it may not require a sim card ...
rly? i never thought verizon would use sim cards...can we bring non verizon phones them from lets say ATT to their network?
Verizon has SIM cards for their GSM/CDMA world phones. Sprint also has world edition blackberries with a SIM card. The SIM card is there so the phone is able to roam onto a GSM network outside of the USA. As far as I know this SIM card will not allow it to roam onto a USA GSM network, since there are no roaming agreements in place between VZ and ATT/TMO
The WCDMA on the HD2 is not the same as CDMA that VZ/Sprint use.
WCDMA is the 3G standard that GSM providers use. CDMA is well as far as i know the same old CDMA network that VZ/Sprint have used for ages with whatever "bolt on" enables 3G on their network. I dont follow the CDMA standard so i dont know all the specifics about the tech.
Edit:
I just did a small amount of wikipedia research. What Verizon/Sprint use is CDMA2000/EV-DO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDMA2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution-Data_Optimized
This is not compatible with WCDMA,
Even though they both use "CDMA" family of technology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_division_multiple_access
WCDMA is a wideband version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCDMA
Thanks for the replies guys. This is a bummer though. I was really hoping to be able to get an HD2 to use with Verizon. Oh well, guess I'll wait for the Droid X to release, even though I'd like to stick with WiMo.
Is there an Android phone out there that works on CDMA and GSM networks. Are any of Verizons new motorola phones going to be world phones?
Maybe the best option is a Sprint Touch Pro 2 with an android ROM???
Hi all, so whats the difference between desire cdma and desire gsm?
is cdma is the us?
Two different kind of cell radios
Verizon and Sprint = cdma
T-Mobile and AT&T = gsm