I have Cingular and the phone lately has had pretty much no signal. My sim card is fine and so I think I need a new phone after talking to Cingular. I'd rather buy one on ebay or somewhere than from them. They said that buying an unlocked phone from there might work but features like text msgs and internet would prob be disabled. Is this true or are they just scaring me into buying from them?
2007-02-09 05:22:06 · 8 answers · asked by transypat 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cell Phones & Plans
I have 4 European quad-band phones I use with the Cigular network.
Make sure you purchase a quad-band
Text messaging will work as soon as you pop your sim card in. No need to change settings
Accessing the internet, you will have to manually change the setings to Cingular, very easy to do and the settings are on Cingulars web site.
Cheers
2007-02-09 05:30:38 · answer #1 · answered by jrott_2003 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every cingular provider has the major companies like Motorola, Nokia, Sony-Erricson, etc. manufactiure phone compatible to the network system. If you buy phones from unknown sources, you will find that it may work some features, and not others, or it may not work at all. You assume all the risks. I would be on the safe side and get one from Cingular if that is the provider you nintend to use.
2007-02-09 05:29:01 · answer #2 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can buy an unlocked phone. Just take it to a Cingular corporate store and they can configure the settings so that all features will work.
2007-02-09 06:17:37 · answer #3 · answered by KokoQueen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless the phone was originally configured for Cingular, text messaging and internet will not work. However, this is just because of configuration settings, which can easily be changed. Once you get one, you can ask Cingular how to set it up, or, if they're not helpful, go to a cell phone forum.
2007-02-09 05:26:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
you could buy an unlocked phone from ebay or a cingular phone
2007-02-09 06:08:59 · answer #5 · answered by Hello!!!! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My service is with T-Mobile and I bought a Razr in e-bay because t mobile didn't carry the black one, it has been like a year and works fine, They did have to send me a update for the browser or something like that the first time I set it up, but all the features work now, just don't tell them you bought it on ebay or they will tell you they don't support it, put the sim card in and if something doesn't work just call and ask them for the settings.
Good luck.
2007-02-09 05:31:48 · answer #6 · answered by DOUG V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im not sure but i learned soemthign... during xmas time
cingular told me i had to buy the motorola d807 straight up full price bc i didnt have an upgrade avaiable but
since iv been a perferred customer for more than 2 years
i can get any phone half off./...
thats what my dads friend told him
and hes like 5 spots under the ceo lol
but iv bought unlocked fones from ebay before and they worked fine
2007-02-09 05:26:38 · answer #7 · answered by umm hahah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't worry so much about this. You just buy a new GSM phone. The text msgs service depends on the sim card you choose. And internet service is dependant on your phone funtion and sim card support. Please view more details at http://www.pandasim.com. I hope you can get a clear idea there.
2007-02-12 14:59:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋