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[steelhead]

Hey,

I am gonna be heading home soon, my little bro wants a cellphone. Says his is a dinossaur....

Actually exact words "not even T-Rex style, more like its retarded cousin"

Ive heard that Rogers Canada works with te same band or frequency as Korea?

ANyone tried this?

[steelhead]

Nobody knows or tried.....

Havent you ever seen the overseas Asian community with Pimpin Cells... they must bring them with them....

[Grotto]

I know motorola phones have chips in them that can be changed out depending on what country you are in.

[MissT]

I have a similar question...

Can I bring my Samsung phone from Canada to Korea, and have it set up with a local Korean cellular company??? Has anyone tried this? ... just trying to cut some costs for when I arrive next month ...

[jurassic5]

i wrote this up for another forum i go to...but it will maybe help u out. it applies to using korean phones in the USA. as for canada, im not sure if bell and telus allow foreign ESN's on their system.

Q: How can I use a phone from Asia in N. America?
A: This can be a bit tricky to answer. S. Korea and Japan use CDMA (Japan has a new WCDMA/GSM mode, but it is still devloping. The rest of Asia for the most part uses GSM. If you want to use a CDMA phone from South Korea, it must be a phone that is compatible with SK Telecom (011). Why? Because SK compatible phones use the same frequency that Verizon uses (800 mhz).
That is the first step, next you must get your phone programmed and activated with Verizon. This step can be solved by either going to a cell phone store in K-town and asking if they are able to do this...or use a place from online.
If you want to use a GSM phone from Asia (this is much easier to do than CDMA), you must make sure that the phone is unlocked so that you may use it with your GSM carrier.

Q: Where can I purchase Korean phones that will work in N. America?
A: Check out Wireless Imports or Celly Spot for a selection of some imported Korean phones already programmed to work on Verizon. Also check out those stores for programming your Korean CDMA phones. It's expensive, but can be done.

[hypnotist]

[jurassic5]

yeah, i don't know too much about Japan's cell technology. mostly korea and the usa. as for vodafone japan, i am currently using their sony v802se here in the usa. works great. flashed it to z800 firmware and is a nice phone.

[denverdeath]

Get your brother to ask what bandwidth Cantel or whatever uses and shop for the same phone here. That's what I recommend anyway. There's still no guarantee that it'll work with whichever carrier you choose. I can tell you that my Samsung(CDMA - forget the model number) wouldn't have worked with the three different companies I asked in my city in Canada. I tried and they all said no, but that was back in 2001, I think. Maybe there's more compatibility nowadays.

[mysteriousdeltarays]

All nonsense to me although I'm sure it is real. I liked the the Japan don't use...