i want to buy a brand new cell fone which i can use in southeast Asia..what kind is avail / best ??

Question

cause i'm going to Vietnam for 1 month and i want to be able to use a cell fone which i will buy from the USA and i've have heard that cell fone with a SIMM would do...is that right???

Answer 1

you can use any tri band or quad band phone in vn. i believe the frequency is gs1900 instead of 900 but i may be wrong.
if you want to make cheap local calls, you will need a phone with a sym card. these can be "cracked" for a few dollars in the countryside were i stay, probably more in the larger cities.
do not buy a sym card before you get to vn. the last one i bought in november was a prepaid for about $12 and i believe it was a 60 minute card.
i usually bring a motorola since that has a sym and it's what my service plan gave me.
enjoy

Answer 2

First I had a Cingular Pocket laptop yet I in basic terms downgraded (simply by fact the bill became into too a lot each month) to a T-cellular Sidekick identity yet i think of i bypass to easily get a RAZR which I had in the previous the Pocket laptop

Answer 3

you need any phone that has GSM 900 Mhz frequency and must be "unlocked" to work on any network.

found sgh 225 on ebay, should work, not a fancy phone

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&from=R10&submitsearch=Search&satitle=unlocked+gsm+900&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&a25664=-24&a25662=-24&a35=-24&a33112=-24&a26093=-24&a10244=-24&alist=a25664%2Ca25662%2Ca35%2Ca10244%2Ca33112%2Ca3801%2Ca26093&pfmode=1&reqtype=1&gcs=1440&pfid=1720&pf_query=unlocked+gsm+900&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=ZIP%2FPostal&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search&fgtp=


you can even buy a SIM card before you leave USA, (costs $50)ask this seller about the GSM frequncy ...good luck

http://cgi.ebay.com/VIETNAM-MOBI4U-MOBIFONE-FOREIGN-SIM-CARD-PACK_W0QQitemZ110083043071QQihZ001QQcategoryZ48501QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

Answer 4

Samsung Black Carbon (SGH-D900)