LOL! You dual sim'd? Hod did you get the phone to work on iDEN and GSM networks at the same time? Putting in a GSM sim in a iDEN phone will never make the phone use GSM bands
Precisely! The phones built today are hardwired to look for a specific frequency based on the network that they are supposed to operate on. That's why you can port any AT&T phone onto T-Mobile and vice versa...because they both use GSM as their operating network base. Same is true if you take any phone from Verizon or Sprint...you can use them (after getting through all of the code breaking mess) on any CDMA network.
iDEN phones, such as this i9 Stature, are NOT going to work on any GSM network (nor on any CDMA network for that matter). This phone will ONLY work on an iDEN network, like Nextel, NII Holdings, or Telus Mobile's MIKE networks. Just because all iDEN phones (save the original few, like the i1000plus) come equipped with SIM cards does NOT mean that they will work on GSM networks. They just aren't designed to look for GSM frequencies, let alone operate on them...they only work on iDEN frequencies.
Now, if we one day opt to go to where the handset's own software modulates the frequency that the phone will use, THEN you could swap out your phone from one network to the next regardless of what technology that carrier uses. But for now, it's all hardware based, and hardwired...so the i9 (for better or worse) is stuck on iDEN and iDEN only!
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BruceWayne @ Feb 13th 2009 6:25PM
LOL! You dual sim'd? Hod did you get the phone to work on iDEN and GSM networks at the same time? Putting in a GSM sim in a iDEN phone will never make the phone use GSM bands
emaildejan @ Mar 13th 2009 7:01PM
Precisely! The phones built today are hardwired to look for a specific frequency based on the network that they are supposed to operate on. That's why you can port any AT&T phone onto T-Mobile and vice versa...because they both use GSM as their operating network base. Same is true if you take any phone from Verizon or Sprint...you can use them (after getting through all of the code breaking mess) on any CDMA network.
iDEN phones, such as this i9 Stature, are NOT going to work on any GSM network (nor on any CDMA network for that matter). This phone will ONLY work on an iDEN network, like Nextel, NII Holdings, or Telus Mobile's MIKE networks. Just because all iDEN phones (save the original few, like the i1000plus) come equipped with SIM cards does NOT mean that they will work on GSM networks. They just aren't designed to look for GSM frequencies, let alone operate on them...they only work on iDEN frequencies.
Now, if we one day opt to go to where the handset's own software modulates the frequency that the phone will use, THEN you could swap out your phone from one network to the next regardless of what technology that carrier uses. But for now, it's all hardware based, and hardwired...so the i9 (for better or worse) is stuck on iDEN and iDEN only!