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Originally Posted by jethro_static
I think U have it twisted. CDMA phones will not work on GSM network and vice versa. Bcoz they have different radio frequency. Once U have unlock the GSM side of the CDMA/GSM aka world phone, U can only put a sim in there and use it for a GSM carrier like T-mo and ATT. The reason TP2 have 2 radios(CDMA/GSM) is for business people that travels a lot outside the country. This is how it's done. They can ask Spint for an International SIM card. If they use that Sim card outside the country. It will use a GSM network on that country. Then that GSM company will charge Sprint for the usage. Then sprint will charge U for it. It will be useless to do that inside the US coz U have the CDMA radio. Other Countries don't.
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For the sake of clarity it has been Sprints policy not to lock the GSM side of its worldphones. For example I have used a Sprint 8830 which is CDMA/GSM and it is unlocked for GSM. The same 8830 handset on Verizon is locked for GSM.
This means that if you have a Sprint 8830, while traveling outside of the US you can place any overseas carrier sim card in the 8830. You cannot with the verizon version.
So while busienss user with Sprint world phones do not ask Sprint for an international sim, or use any $20 sim purchased in their destination country. You can do the latter in most airports and have your phone workign in 20 minutes or so. The advantage of the sprint sim is that calls to your US number are routed, the disadvantage is that it costs about 10x as much per minute for outgoing calls and infinitely more for incoming which are free with almost all sims outside of the US.
If the smartphone has wifi, which the 8830 does not, but which the Touch Pro 2 has, you get the added benefit of not being raped on data charges.
The touch pro 2 is finally the first reasonable usage cost smartphone for sprint customers. If verizon locks the sim and sprint does not it will truly show how far verizon will go to cripple handsets for its customers.