[ale] Moving my phone into the 20th Century

Don Kramer donkramer at gmail.com
Thu Apr 18 13:35:18 EDT 2013


When my two-year contract was up with Verizon, I switched from my Droid
Incredible with Android 2.3 to an LG phone running ICS with MetroPCS with a
$55 unlimited talk/text/web/data plan.  The $55 was a special they were
running at the time last fall.  While the 4G hotspot isn't officially part
of that price plan, the hotspot worked out of the box and I tether it
judiciously when I need it. IMHO once Metro and T-Mobile have completed
their merger, "T-Metro" (as I've seen posters elsewhere refer to them as)
will hopefully be a strong contender for non-metered unlimited with a
stronger combined 4G LTE network in the future.


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Horkan Smith <ale at horkan.net> wrote:

> FWIW, I used my Droid 3 in Italy last summer w/ a 3rd party SIM.  At the
> time, I was still using the stock ROM.  The process wasn't as clean as I
> would have liked (I had to reboot the phone sometimes to get it to find a
> tower), and for my short visit it actually ended up cheaper to use
> Verizon's services w/ the Verizon SIM.  FYI, the Droid 3 is listed as a
> Global phone and has a SIM slot - other Verizon phones may behave
> differently.
>
> We did have to call Verizon first to get 'em to both unlock the phone for
> alternate SIM use (and the phone apparently still rejects US-based towers,
> btw.)  We also signed up for a Global plan amendment and paid a seperate
> fee for a better global voice and data plan.  Customer service was pretty
> helpfull in getting it all set up.
>
> My wife's iPhone 4GS behaved similarlly to the Droid 3, if I recall
> correctly - I didn't experiment with it as much.  The Global unlock was
> more of a pain here - had to wipe and re-install from iTunes.  (For the
> Droid 3 I put in the foreign SIM and got prompted for an unlock code.)
>
> The Droid 3 only used the SIM for GSM mode BTW - it works just fine w/out
> it here in the US.  It's only a 3G phone, so I can't comment on 4G behavior.
>
> later!
>    horkan
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:15:28AM -0400, Michael Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > FYI: The (fairly) new Motorola Razr M model at Verizon uses a SIM card
> >
> > I think the SIM part of CDMA-only phones (not sure if the Razr M
> > qualifies there) is for the 4G functionality.  You can't, as far as I
> > know, use the phone on another network simply by changing SIMs.
> >
> > (If I'm wrong here someone please tell me so I can be less stupid
> > today than I was yesterday.)
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