Mark Bigland-Pritchard wrote:
> cellphone anywhere else in the world, Sasktel won't work because the sim
> card is locked in. But if you want to use a Rogers (or Shaw or
Sasktel phones are not GSM; they have no SIM cards, just a stupid CDMA
2x ESN (easily cloned by phone phreaks), and also about 16 years out of
date. Better range with fewer towers, though.
> whatever) cellphone anywhere else in the world you'll have to make sure
> it's quadband (N.American triband doesn't work very well in Europe,
> though European tribands work OK here), and that the sim card isn't
> locked. (I have a phone for use here and another for my infrequent
> out-of-continent trips)
Quadband and triband phones work, but the SIMs are often locked. It's
also pretty hard to get cheap SIM cards outside of Canada (at least in
the US; I've been unsuccesful when I've tried to get some), but Europe
might be different.
> Fwiw, the Samsung A660 handsets which Sasktel offer at a low price (we
> got them free) are not very user-friendly - especially if you want to
> keep your bills down by texting instead of calling. I'm prepared to put
> up with it because I don't use it much, but if you are looking at
> significant usage then you want something better.
If you want to do texting, get a Hiptop on Fido. It's 30$ a month,
unlimited data. Yes, unlimited. Not 20mb unlimited, real unlimited.
Websites, email, texting, etc -- all unlimited. 300$ signup to get the
phone, mind you, on a 3 year contract. Also, if they every get the
Hiptop 3, it's probably going to be crippled with no Bluetooth support
(and the datalink is designed to not be used).
Frankly, if I wasn't a poor student selling his worldly possesions to
get by, I'd have a hiptop to go with my regular celluar phone service!
It looks like they've gone and broken it. Bastards.
http://www.fido.ca/portal/product/handsetdetail.jsp?id=hiptop2&lang=en&cat=1
Received on Sat Sep 2 01:01:44 2006
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