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Originally Posted by tokuzumi
I know with my Treo, and my mogul, I was able to transfer my contacts to my phone through Google. Obviously, with any Android phone, your contacts come with you. All you have to do is sign in to your gmail account, unless you stored them on the phone only, and don't sync them to your gmail account.
As an honorable mention, price and coverage would be two of the most important things to consider with any telecom. If I knew I was going to be traveling out of the country a lot, or I'm a carrier jumper, I'd only consider GSM.
I really don't understand why CDMA carriers can't use sim cards. It's probably more political than actual hardware limitations.
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I'm having a hard time getting my contacts into google, in anticipation of my move to Android. The contacts all import fine, but the catagories don't import at all.
On the SIM card- some CDMA carriers in other countries actually use a RUIM card. It's the same size as a SIM card, and fully compatible with SIM card slots.
CDMA carriers here refuse to use it though because they actually don't want you having that freedom. They want you to have to buy devices form them. That way they can dictate what plan you are on, and they can lock down the phones in any way they want, and they can make a pretty penny selling the actual phone too.
Right now Sprint won't activate a Verizon phone, or a US Cellular phone, or any other CDMA phone unless it's a Sprint phone. But if they were using a RUIM card system, you could just pop your card into whatever unlocked phone you wanted (with the correct radios) and it would work.