| danny burstein 2006-06-05, 2:48 am |
| A friend of mine (yes, really, not me...) did some
ugly things to his Cingular something or another
phone here in NYC. I asked him to open
up the back, and he had a SIMed unit, so...
We met up and I placed his SIM into my unlocked
t-Mobile brandedNokia 3595, and it worked [a].
[a] it took _much_ longer for the phone and SIM card
to register online with Cingular than my phone
does with t-Mobile. He said that was the usual
delay on his system.
He then picked up another 3595 that a friend of mine
had sitting around, unlocked it, and eyup, he's
back on the air.
Anymay, my question...
The t-Mobile instruction booklet I had way back
for the 3595 said it was single band (1,900), but the
onlne manuals for it from Nokia say it's dual.
Was t-mobile just saying "single band" so as
to distinguish it from the multi band world phones,
or... are these units really crippled?
And finally, if the latter, then is my friend just
using Cingular here in NYC on some legacy 1,900
frequenciesi and would be out of luck in other areas?
Or... have we lucked out and these
phones really are frequency agile?
Anyone know? Thanks
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