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Mobile suitable for the USA

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  • 04-03-2012 1:02pm
    #1
    Feardorca
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭


    Help, I would like to know which classification of Mobile Phone that will operate in the USA (and Ireland) I'm looking for a very basic phone sim free, so that I may use local sim Thanks :confused:
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    Kensington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,683 ✭✭✭Kensington


    It needs to be "quad-band", for example, [this].
    The Carphone Warehouse also sells that phone but I think they're network locked.


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    theteal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    tri-band will suffice for the US


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    #4
    Kensington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,683 ✭✭✭Kensington


    theteal wrote: »
    tri-band will suffice for the US
    Not so much any more, they've begun migrating some of the existing GSM frequencies over to UMTS/LTE so if you have a tri-band phone and you are in a region where the phone's "third band" has been migrated over to LTE, you won't get any signal.

    With a quad-band, it'll be able to latch onto the other frequency band as it will have been left in place for back-compatibility.


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    GreenWolfe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭GreenWolfe


    Are the Carphone Warehouse still selling those Samsung Ch@t 222's? According to this they're quad-band.


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