Korean Phones

Johnny_Fontane

I'm on my way to Korea shortly and fancy one of those phones with the 3gb harddrive. Can I use this phone in Ireland?

dshakey

Johnny_Fontane wrote:

I'm on my way to Korea shortly and fancy one of those phones with the 3gb harddrive. Can I use this phone in Ireland?

i think you need a quad band phone.. they work all over the world.. not to sure doh

kasintahan

Don't the Koreans and Japs use a form of NTT's do co mo (CDMA)?

I think they may have some GSM coverage, better check.

FYI - we use 900 and 1800 MHz GSM over here - if the phone supports that then it would be fine.

dookie

jap and korean phones cant be unlocked...well jap 1s any way i no for sure.

Subliminal

Hi, wondered could anyone please help me with this.

A firiend of mine is gone to korea for a holiday. He borrowed my second mobile phone to use over there, but he has lost it/it was stolen etc.

he has told me he wants to buy me one in return, but we dont know if a phone bought over there would work here? even if adapter needed etc?

Please any help appriciated.

digitally-yours

tell him to check if it accepts o2 sim of ur friend
it sgud b a eurpean region
normally all the dual band ones work in europe
if its tri band it works in states too
if its quad band its all over the globe

Subliminal

cheers for that, so if its tri band, it should def work here?

PS He has no irish sim to test it with.

Thanks a lot.

Sub

zoro

there are 2 tri band types: 850/1800/1900 and 900/1800/1900
whereas quadband is 850/900/1800/1900

The figures may be slightly off, but all you need to know is that 850mhz/khz/bbq is for USA and Canada, and 900 is for europe.
1800 is for europe aswell i think, while 1900 is for the far east and russia.

I'm not 100% on them, but if you can get a quad band GSM phone you're fine. If it's a triband phone, look for the one with the 900 frequency on it if possible

*edit*
Looks like my figures are a bit off
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_frequency_ranges

Have a read of that page and come back

byrnefm

According to this page (scroll down a bit to find Korea on the chart):

http://www.thetravelinsider.info/roadwarriorcontent/quadbandphones.htm

Only CDMA is used in Korea but they do use 3G also.