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[Mpls_Korean]

Does anyone know if it is possible to take phones from Korea to America, and be able to use them? If so, what phones do you know of?

Thanks in advance.

[Hater Depot]

It depends on the phone. Motorola's are supposedly the best at handling this. I had a Samsung Anycall phone that I could have taken back to the States and, through some setup I didn't bother to try to understand, used for about $5 a minute (!).

[Mpls_Korean]

I would like to convert the Korean phone into my main cell phone back in the states. Is it possible to get it serviced by like Sprint or AT&T, or somebody?

Korean phones are so much better than those back home.

[Hater Depot]

What I'm actually planning to do is get a Motorola Razr. If you take it between Korea and the US, you have to have separate phone plans but you just take it and they switch the chip or something.

That's what some vendors in Yongsan told me anyway. I'm pretty sure in the US I'll have to go through Cingular to use the Razr.

[Wrench]

[fairycat]

In Korea, there are 3 major companys for phone service and data communication. SKT, KTF, LGT - these 3 companys are using only CDMA, QUALCOMM.

If you go back to the States, you will use GPRS or UMTS. So if you want to use Korean phone in the States, you'd better check if your phone is abailable for GPRS|UMTS or not.

CDMA, GPRS, UMTS.. these are the protocols for data communication and are way more important than phone device itself. I think you should check it out first.

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[steelhead]

Same question, what about for Canada?

I heard any GMS? is that right... phone can work for Rogers

[jurassic5]

SK 011 phones use Verizon's network in the USA. SK 011 Korean phones can be forced onto the Verizon network (go to your local Koreatown in the USA and you will see the anycall and sky phones available...expensive...but able to use them).

Celly Spot

[elric]

You need a world phone. Don't mess around. If you want a phone to use in America make sure you buy an unlocked Motorola RAZR or an unlocked Palm Treo. All the other phones are spotty compatibility at best, and there is no way you get all the Korean extra content like TV.

[steelhead]

This is what I found while poking around

Rogers uses phones that support tri band Gsm 900, gsm 1800 and 1900, so I figure if you had a phone, that had those frequencies, you would be ok.

However, that was under their roaming policies.

Customers with international roaming requirements are able to roam in countries where Rogers Wireless has established GSM international roaming agreements only. A tri-band GSM device that supports 1900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 900 MHz frequencies is required.

Define ... Unlocked.???

[Wangja]

Coming soon is the Samsung anycall "worldphone" which with SKT works in 90 countries.

[JeJuJitsu]

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200703/kt2007030420391910220.htm

``It�s simple. We don�t sell smartphones because they don�t sell,�� an LG Telecom official said.

[joeyjoejoe]

[Wrench]

[Slightly Lit]

I dont think you would have problem bringing your Korean CDMA phone back to North America as Long as the phone is unlocked (not locked to a particular network such as KT, SK, or LG). You would be forced however to get service from a provider who offers CDMA.(Aliant / Telus in Canada Sprint in the US)