i guess that's how the providers try to make it difficult for drug dealers etc... because those are obviously the only people interested in pre-paid plans...
TMoUSA's WAP settings allow full desktop browsing, from my experience. I've never used a Nokia smartphone on 3G, just TZones, the old $5.99 plan. All flash and stuff worked fine, but some ports were blocked, blocking my IM and VOIP apps.
TMoUSA's WAP settings allow full desktop browsing, from my experience. I've never used a Nokia smartphone on 3G, just TZones, the old $5.99 plan. All flash and stuff worked fine, but some ports were blocked, blocking my IM and VOIP apps.
have you ever chaged the apn to epc.tmobile.com and checked it out? with that apn I am able to make calls through fring on N95 with edge connected and the call quality was not that bad either.
Yeah...that ain't happening given that Sprint uses CDMA (I think). Even if TMobile bought Sprint or they merged you'd just have two seperate celluar networks..
(I wonder how hard it is to make a phone with every radio in it)..do those phones even exist?
No. The radios are the most expensive parts of the device.
I wouldn't say every radio, but GSM and CDMA? Sure- check out any "global" Blackberry and a couple of other phones on the Verizon network. First model for VZW was the 8830, then the Storm. Now they have the Tour, and I believe every future VZW compatible BB will come with SIM (GSM capability). They used to force you to call them, request global access, they'd then ship a SIM (probably 2 days tops) and update your account. Now, the Tour comes with a SIM and is ready out of the box.
Verizon was taking a hit on the global traveler market. Sure, you could rent/borrow a GSM phone or BB when going overseas, but that's just one more thing to be done before the big trip.
BTW, Japan uses some additional bands not found on the U.S. offerings and so a rental would still be needed there, unless you grab something cheap while in Japan.
BTW, Japan uses some additional bands not found on the U.S. offerings and so a rental would still be needed there, unless you grab something cheap while in Japan.
I don't know for sure, but I've read elsewhere that you will have cell phone coverage in Japan if your phone has the 2100 3G band. Since the n900 has that band, those users should be good to go in that department.
There seems to have been some technical issues with the Forums where a number of our larger threads were lost. We managed to recover some of the bigger ones but unfortunately the Request for the N900 was lost. :smileysad:
So, feel free to start another one here :smileyhappy:
