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Old Aug 19, 2009 | 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by kntrider,Aug 19 2009, 10:18 AM
You're right for the most part:

"ATT phones can be unlocked to be used on the T-mobile network and vise-versa

Sprint, Verizon, and US Cellular are not GSM, so the phones cannot be used with Tmobile or ATT."

But the Storm is an exception, it does have a sim slot, so once the phone is unlocked it can be used on ATT or T-mobile, but the appropriate "books" need to be downloaded to get it work properly.

Most people have not been able to get internet on it on ATT or T-mobile, only have been able to get voice and sms, not sure about mms either. Also it will only run on edge and not 3G and since it doesn't have wifi, all you're stuck with is a normal phone that just calls out and receives sms, looks nice, and is exteremely slow, unreliable and glitchy.

Check out craigslist and you can see the number of unloced storms running on ATT and T-mobile.

I know because I have ATT and have an iPhone 3GS and I was trying to get a BB Storm as a backup because they can be had for as low as $150 now, but have heard nothing but horrible things about it so I stopped my search. The G1 sucks too, it's one of the ugliest looking phones I have ever seen.

I would pick up a Blackberry Bold or a cheap Blackberry Curve (great phone) I really liked my old one. I also had a HTC Tilt, really bulky and slow so I sold that as well.

I just picked up a really cheap unlocked Samsung Blackjack 2 for a spare phone and it's a decent phone for what I paid for it but WinMo sucks compared to iPhone but I like being able to run Skype without having to be on wifi at work and if i drop the blackjack or lose it on my weekend getaways I won't be too worried about it.
Yeah I saw him demo his storm on T-Mobile network and Internet worked well.



FYI this guy is a phone wiz and has been doing this for a while on the side. He basically figured out a way to unlock the Storm and have it able to be used to it's full capacity on T-Mobile's network as well as AT&T.

I'm going to try it out and if I do not like it I can get another phone through him.
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Old Aug 19, 2009 | 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by 714s2k,Aug 19 2009, 01:52 PM
Smokey - The older the berry the sweeter the juice
Craig - Man its the blaker the berry the sweeter the juice
Smokey - well she black as a mother fawker too

I lol'ed
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