no way. GSM is not older in mainstream tech than CDMA is.



BTW- basically all motorolas come unlocked. No need to "hack" them, and I know that for a fact, all the V400s came factory unlocked. Im winning the new V635 from work, that phones gona be SWEET and its FREE babay i love my job.

[quote name='nopistons93' date='Mar 24 2005, 07:15 AM']no way. GSM is not older in mainstream tech than CDMA is.



BTW- basically all motorolas come unlocked. No need to "hack" them, and I know that for a fact, all the V400s came factory unlocked. Im winning the new V635 from work, that phones gona be SWEET and its FREE babay i love my job.


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You can hack them to change the outer LCD text, remove carrier branding, enable video (mine was not originally a video phone, it is now!) turn up volume past the stock levels, change the model of the phone, the IMEI (but that can get you into serious trouble), enable the engineering mode, unlock AIM in your phone (all motos v series come with the aol instant messenger, your carrier locks it based off what they want you to have,) increase the java heap size, erase the ghey stock LOCKED ringers and backgrounds, easily freeing up and additional 500K of memory on the phone, you can change that your txts get saved to the phones memory, instead of to the sim card; now I have 60 text incoming and 60 texts outgoing, and my memory meter only reads the 1st bar...you can also hack them to get on a different network. I can scan the GSM frequencies and attach to other carriers-a feature I had to unlock. Without unlocking, i could only change the band my phone operated on.



GSM History Says it came out in 1991....



CDMA INFO Says it came out in 1995....

GSM was not used in the states till a few years ago. I dont care what that history says, try to find a carrier in the USA that used GSM in 1991, you wont bottom line. Ya the motos are nice phones, but he have the most problems with them in my store out of any other phone we sell. And yes, ghosting your phone is deff very illegal, however you actually dont just change the IMEI, when you do it correctly you burn the last few digits off your SIM card as well as the IMEI which makes it invisible to the carrier your ghosting on. very cool but I dont like jail much, id just pay the 40 a month and not go to jail basically

I have a GSM phone for like 4 years now, not a single problem

Got my phone and service activated today. Love the phone, reception inside my place is GREAT when it was shitty with the Sprint phone, and the Quick Connect is hot as hell.



No complaints, go Nextel. Done.

not gonna read all of that crap bc i dont care that much but heres what i know



my dads company just switched over to nextel and the service sucks. you can almost never get ahold of his phone and when you do his voice sounds strange and if there is any interference the stuf doesnt just cut in and out, it sounds like digital stuff getting mixed up and rearranging the sylables.



also his phone sucks, has a motorola flip and its twice as big as my moto flip but his has a small screen and no camera and bad resolution.



the service is different everywhere so you should see if you can try it out before you commit, also, theres not much of a point to switch to them unless your friends are going to too bc the only benefit is the two way feature, unless you wanna use the gps stuff.

[quote name='Shane.Trammell' date='Mar 25 2005, 05:09 PM']not gonna read all of that crap bc i dont care that much but heres what i know



my dads company just switched over to nextel and the service sucks. you can almost never get ahold of his phone and when you do his voice sounds strange and if there is any interference the stuf doesnt just cut in and out, it sounds like digital stuff getting mixed up and rearranging the sylables.



also his phone sucks, has a motorola flip and its twice as big as my moto flip but his has a small screen and no camera and bad resolution.



the service is different everywhere so you should see if you can try it out before you commit, also, theres not much of a point to switch to them unless your friends are going to too bc the only benefit is the two way feature, unless you wanna use the gps stuff.


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Sucks for your dad!!!

Cingular has been GSM since like 2002 or for about 2 1/2 years. I mean you don't have to believe me, its not like i work for cingular or anything. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...>/rolleyes.gif





But in all seriousness, service providers really just are differnet in different areas. T-mobile sucks just about everywhere that the area isn't densly populated. Cingular is better in the rural areas, but Verizon still uses CDMA which is a stronger signal than what GSM runs on, so they have the coverage in the upper part of the USA. As like PenisDownVII says, the ONLY provider in his area (upstate new york) so, hes basically beat.

[quote name='Srce' date='Mar 25 2005, 04:19 PM']Sucks for your dad!!!


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yeah it does, i dont know what kind of contract theyre one either

[quote name='Shane.Trammell' date='Mar 25 2005, 06:59 PM']yeah it does, i dont know what kind of contract theyre one either


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at least a 2 year, unless he paid a large sum for the phones ..