KIN for Sprint?

[pacosuave]

So as I understand it the KINs were released for Verizon and seem to have been completely overshadowed by all the great full featured smart phones out there.

I'm still grandfathered into a Sprint SERO plan and would love to play around with a KIN on sprint if it was possible to unlock it from Verizon.

From what I can see here in the PPC geeks forum there isn't much interest in building custom roms from these or providing a guide for me to use an unlocked one on sprint

So what do you all think?

[Laos101]

Nope, it's illegal as its an ESN transfer.

Also its verizon exclusive so you might as well just wait it out for Windows Phone 7 (which will use what KIN is essentially) come September - November?

[iredline5]

You can only use sprint branded phones on sprint network. And Cloning a ESN is illegal

[nanoware]

yea what ever.. it is when *******s clone your fu*king moms phone in a mall with a god dam blue tooth scaning cloning device and make international calls for 4 months without her knowing.. thats should be illegal...

buf if you want to do a legit clone (e.x kin on sprint and its UR phone) i dont see whats wrong with that, just change the esn on the kin to a windows mobile device on sprints network.

people do it all the time to get new phones onto boost mobile

u woud have to have access to the internal programming of the kin, good luck with that

[pacosuave]

I guess I thought it would be possible to get an unlocked Kin on sprint like you can get an unlocked AT&T phone to work on T-Mobile or like some people have done with getting the EVO 4G onto Cricket.

Sprint, Verizon, and Cricket are all CDMA so I thought their phones could all be unlocked and used on any CDMA network that shares the same frequency bands.

So I guess as I understand from your replies each carrier will only allow devices to use their network if the ESN is registered to work. ie a registered Sprint ESN is required in order to use Sprints Network.

So ESN cloning, which is illegal, would be the only way to use a CDMA phone on a Network it wasn't originally designed to work on. I take it, that is what is going on with the EVO running on cricket.

[GirlGoneGeek]

Originally Posted by nanoware

buf if you want to do a legit clone (e.x kin on sprint and its UR phone) i dont see whats wrong with that, just change the esn on the kin to a windows mobile device on sprints network.

That's still illegal

[Wesley762]

Kin is DEAD on the first page of the site............

[elpres81]

Gone, but [s]{not}[/s] forgotten.

[elpres81]

Meh, couldn't get the strike through code to work. Fitting I suppose, for this particular forum.