Spring Nextel Agrees to Unlock Phones

[pzztgotbagz]

http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=2506

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j...R9KEgD8SH61A80

Read both links look like its fixing to get interesting in the CDMA Scene.

[InvincibleLiving]

WOW... double wow... didn't see that one coming.

[Pibe38]

Hehehe you beat me to it... I was about to post about this too

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/1...ocking-phones/

[1oddmanout]

Hmm, an i760 on Sprint. Anyone know of CDMA phones from the CDMA countries in Asia that might be interesting?

[slightlyevolved]

i think the DoCoMo FOMA line of phones are CDMA. that'd be pretty wicked to have one of those on sprint.

Could finally play Final Fantasy: Before Crisis......

[strickly_ppc670]

Bring on the HTC- TILT.....

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j...R9KEgD8SH61A80

[xmind2006]

Ah, I don't think you quite understand what you posted.
1. The HTC Tilt is a GSM phone...which does nothing for Sprint, Verizon, Alltel, and other CDMA customers.
2. It's great Sprint unlocks the phone...but unless Verizon or other CDMA company will accept phones they didn't sell themselves (i.e. Verizon won't activate a silver PPC-6700 sold by Sprint).

However, this is good news to make one step closer to opening up the CDMA network and company choices. The next big step would be for the CDMA carriers in the US to support RUIM.

[canospinach]

Originally Posted by xmind2006

Ah, I don't think you quite understand what you posted.
1. The HTC Tilt is a GSM phone...which does nothing for Sprint, Verizon, Alltel, and other CDMA customers.
2. It's great Sprint unlocks the phone...but unless Verizon or other CDMA company will accept phones they didn't sell themselves (i.e. Verizon won't activate a silver PPC-6700 sold by Sprint).

However, this is good news to make one step closer to opening up the CDMA network and company choices. The next big step would be for the CDMA carriers in the US to support RUIM.

This is very true...

For reasons you would not normally suspect (performance being one of them) Carriers like Sprint, Verizon and others (not all carriers, but many) use a pre-approved ESN/IMEI list for activation. Meaning that regardless of if your phone is "unlocked" or not if its not from their pre approved serial number list it doesnt activate. Short of "cloning" a phone i dont know of anyone who has gotten around this.

As many of you are seeing with different ROMs PRLs and PRIs, carriers sometimes have to "build" a handset for a market where it will perform optimal in those specific topographic conditions. So "locking" a handset is in some cases an attempt to keep poor performing unapproved equipment from ruining a subscribers experience. Different versions can be more than update differences, sometimes its diff builds for diff performance needs (this is partially why there are so many different radio rom experiences, newest works fine for me here, but may not for you where you are).

It really means little for us as we already can generate the MSL for most WM5 WM6 phones which allows us access to the NAM which in turn allows me to program any carrier info into the handset i want.

FYI - for those who dont know RUIM - think of a SIM card on stereoids, storing all your info, swappable to any handset.

[budney]

This is cool news. I hope it opens up the door for a more universal system like GSM.

BTW, I moved this thread to the Off topic forums as it is not Apache or PPC specific.

EDIT: Thanks for merging the thread I moved with this one. Never saw this thread.

[piratedninja]

correct me if im wrong but i believe (probably here in NC) that a law was passed earlier this year requiring all carriers to allow activating phones from other carriers

now this doesnt mean activating a gsm phone on a cdma network but you should be able to activate a sprint phone on a verizon account and vice versa