&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>GSM on Hi from Dwipal</title><link>https://dwipal.com/blog/tags/gsm/</link><description>Recent content in GSM on Hi from Dwipal</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:44:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://dwipal.com/blog/tags/gsm/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>GSM Phone Rant..</title><link>https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/2006-02-23-gsm-phone-rant/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:44:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/2006-02-23-gsm-phone-rant/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I recently switched to Cingular because i wanted a GSM based phone. For some unknown random reasons, GSM phones are less crippled and have more &amp;ldquo;basic&amp;rdquo; features than CDMA phones. They also have a SIM card, which can simply be put in a different phone.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most of the new GSM phones that are coming out are either tri-band or quad-band. Cingular runs on 2 bands, 850 MHz and 1900 MHz. However, the new (and awesome) tri-band phones like Nokia N Series, SE W800, etc. dont have the 850 MHz band. This is probably because the rest of the world do not use this band.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;I recently switched to Cingular because i wanted a GSM based phone. For some unknown random reasons, GSM phones are less crippled and have more &amp;ldquo;basic&amp;rdquo; features than CDMA phones. They also have a SIM card, which can simply be put in a different phone.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most of the new GSM phones that are coming out are either tri-band or quad-band. Cingular runs on 2 bands, 850 MHz and 1900 MHz. However, the new (and awesome) tri-band phones like Nokia N Series, SE W800, etc. dont have the 850 MHz band. This is probably because the rest of the world do not use this band.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Is it that difficult to create a quad band phone? Are American phone companies so annoyingly bad that they don&amp;rsquo;t promote a quad band phone? People who buy these unlocked phones are paying the same service charge, so the companies actually make more money as they dont give away a free phone! If a small phone like the Motorola RAZR can be quad band, what might be stopping other phones from that?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Its so not fair.&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded></item><item><title>The Phone Story...</title><link>https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/2006-02-10-the-phone-story/</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:42:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/2006-02-10-the-phone-story/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;So I have been in the market for a new phone since a really long time now. After giving a shot to the Sprint PM6800 PDA Phone, which was a really bad experience in all the terms (Windows PocketPC+Mac interoperability, Sprint Customer Support and others), I decided that it was the time to move away from CDMA to the more &amp;ldquo;open&amp;rdquo; GSM phones.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After checking out all the phones, there were not many options available for Cingular compatible phones (th&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/the-phone-story/4338013923512192.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;"/&gt;ere are very few quad-band, or 850 Mhz tri-band phones in the market). So I decided not to get something very fancy and ordered the Sony Ericsson Z520a from Amazon.com (it was -100$ after rebates!)&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;So I have been in the market for a new phone since a really long time now. After giving a shot to the Sprint PM6800 PDA Phone, which was a really bad experience in all the terms (Windows PocketPC+Mac interoperability, Sprint Customer Support and others), I decided that it was the time to move away from CDMA to the more &amp;ldquo;open&amp;rdquo; GSM phones.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After checking out all the phones, there were not many options available for Cingular compatible phones (th&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/the-phone-story/4338013923512192.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;"/&gt;ere are very few quad-band, or 850 Mhz tri-band phones in the market). So I decided not to get something very fancy and ordered the Sony Ericsson Z520a from Amazon.com (it was -100$ after rebates!)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Having waited impatiently for 3 days, it finally arrived, and I set it up and called cingular to port my old number to this new one. They advised me to confirm with amazon if I can do this. Well, anyways, I called Amazon, and they said that my rebate will be cancelled if I ported the old number to this one !!!! Its like WTH! I could have just bought the phone from a store and not wait for 2 days !!! No wonder AMZN stock is going down.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So basically, in the end, I decided to give it all up and just got the number ported. Now I am a proud owner of the Sony Ericsson Z520a GSM phone. This phone has all the features I wanted (bluetooth sync, remote control, flip phone, good battery life) without the extra baggage. Its all going to be a happy ending with a good phone that is not badly crippled by the provider.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h3 id="comments"&gt;Comments&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; (February 12, 2006):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Check out &lt;a href="http://www.cingular.com/SLVR_iTunes/Forget"&gt;http://www.cingular.com/SLVR_iTunes/Forget&lt;/a&gt; iTunes part, its still a cool phone, quad band and stuff, and iSync! &amp;hellip; I want to trade my k700i now!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dwipal&lt;/strong&gt; (February 13, 2006):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;dont like the SLVR phone..1. not flip (i like flip phones)2. not sure if it supports salling clicker (RAZR does not support), salling yet does not say that this one does.3. 200 bucks?!4. Check this out: &lt;a href="http://www.1800mobiles.com/motorola-l6-phone.htmlits"&gt;http://www.1800mobiles.com/motorola-l6-phone.htmlits&lt;/a&gt; the slvr without itunes (and its triband :( ) but its PRETTY CHEAP.5. sony has the UI stuff, so actually, even though i bought salling clicker, i was able to control itunes and all using the phone directly.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; (February 14, 2006):&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;I hate flips :)- there is hope from salling clicker :)http://www.salling.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1949&amp;amp;postdays=0&amp;amp;postorder=asc&amp;amp;start=150check out the last post by &amp;lsquo;salling&amp;rsquo;. might take a while for an update though.- the phone is already on amazon for $50. (albeit with conditions &amp;amp; rebates), but the unlocked one is starting to show up for $250 at some sites and ebay powersellers&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;h3 id="comments-1"&gt;Comments&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; (February 12, 2006):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Check out &lt;a href="http://www.cingular.com/SLVR_iTunes/Forget"&gt;http://www.cingular.com/SLVR_iTunes/Forget&lt;/a&gt; iTunes part, its still a cool phone, quad band and stuff, and iSync! &amp;hellip; I want to trade my k700i now!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dwipal&lt;/strong&gt; (February 13, 2006):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;dont like the SLVR phone..1. not flip (i like flip phones)2. not sure if it supports salling clicker (RAZR does not support), salling yet does not say that this one does.3. 200 bucks?!4. Check this out: &lt;a href="http://www.1800mobiles.com/motorola-l6-phone.htmlits"&gt;http://www.1800mobiles.com/motorola-l6-phone.htmlits&lt;/a&gt; the slvr without itunes (and its triband :( ) but its PRETTY CHEAP.5. sony has the UI stuff, so actually, even though i bought salling clicker, i was able to control itunes and all using the phone directly.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; (February 14, 2006):&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;I hate flips :)- there is hope from salling clicker :)http://www.salling.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1949&amp;amp;postdays=0&amp;amp;postorder=asc&amp;amp;start=150check out the last post by &amp;lsquo;salling&amp;rsquo;. might take a while for an update though.- the phone is already on amazon for $50. (albeit with conditions &amp;amp; rebates), but the unlocked one is starting to show up for $250 at some sites and ebay powersellers&lt;/li&gt;
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