Mobile phones :S

[Me_F0h_Teh_Win]

Hey, for my mothers birthday i am planning to buy her a mobile phone, she was planning to get herself either

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_w800-1089.php

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_w550-1245.php


the thing is, she's living in Norway atm and im not too sure if buying the phone in the uk, would work for her in Norway, if the phone is unlocked do you think it will work?


thanks alot in advance

 

[Biohazard]

just go to norway and buy it there.

i bought a razr v3 yesterday. its pretty cool. my sis got a rokr, thos r pretty nice. ^_^

 

[Me_F0h_Teh_Win]

just go to norway and buy it there.

i bought a razr v3 yesterday. its pretty cool. my sis got a rokr, thos r pretty nice. ^_^

im only 18 jobless student, ive just about got the money for the phone, let alone the time/money to get to Norway >.<

 

[Biohazard]

well dont u gotta buy the service that comes with the fone? what is the point of a fone if it dont work =P

 

[TheBoss]

Im selling my D600 Which can be used abroad, I want the w800i santa mite have me 1 ^_^

 

[LeoCrasher]

Hey, for my mothers birthday i am planning to buy her a mobile phone, she was planning to get herself either

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_w800-1089.php

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_w550-1245.php


the thing is, she's living in Norway atm and im not too sure if buying the phone in the uk, would work for her in Norway, if the phone is unlocked do you think it will work?


thanks alot in advance

Make sure its dual band and unlocked... then she can choose her preferred network when she gets there.

/Leo

 

[Me_F0h_Teh_Win]

Make sure its dual band and unlocked... then she can choose her preferred network when she gets there.

/Leo

okkie ty could you explain abit what dual band is please

 

[LeoCrasher]

'Bands' refer to the frequency band the mobile phone operates on. The UK and around 200 other countries, typically use the 900 MHz (O2, vodafone use this) and 1800 MHz (tmobile, orange use this) bands.

Meanwhile in the USA (one of the exceptions) they use 850MHz and 1900MHz, so typically our phones cannot be used in the USA at all, and vice versa. (Unless you want to get into quadband phones... :P)

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Another barrier to some phones, is that not everyone in the world has a GSM service (ie. the American one isn't brilliant - quite limitied in comparison), and instead opt for some different type of encoding. Don't worry about this though as Norway will definately use GSM.

To summerise... a UK unlocked dualband phone will DEFINATELY work in Norway
/Leo

 

[Speckle]

yeah whlst we r on about mobiles phones. My d500 camera worked last night for like first time in 4/5 month and i wake up this morning. try and take a photo, and the camera dont work again. I load up to take a photo and cuts srt8 off. any help?

 

[Me_F0h_Teh_Win]

'Bands' refer to the frequency band the mobile phone operates on. The UK and around 200 other countries, typically use the 900 MHz (O2, vodafone use this) and 1800 MHz (tmobile, orange use this) bands.

Meanwhile in the USA (one of the exceptions) they use 850MHz and 1900MHz, so typically our phones cannot be used in the USA at all, and vice versa. (Unless you want to get into quadband phones... :P)

-

Another barrier to some phones, is that not everyone in the world has a GSM service (ie. the American one isn't brilliant - quite limitied in comparison), and instead opt for some different type of encoding. Don't worry about this though as Norway will definately use GSM.

To summerise... a UK unlocked dualband phone will DEFINATELY work in Norway
/Leo

thank you


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[urbanfox]

Almost all new motorola phones are tri or quad band and gsm/gprs capable.

 

[steve]

'Bands' refer to the frequency band the mobile phone operates on. The UK and around 200 other countries, typically use the 900 MHz (O2, vodafone use this) and 1800 MHz (tmobile, orange use this) bands.

Meanwhile in the USA (one of the exceptions) they use 850MHz and 1900MHz, so typically our phones cannot be used in the USA at all, and vice versa. (Unless you want to get into quadband phones... :P)

-

Another barrier to some phones, is that not everyone in the world has a GSM service (ie. the American one isn't brilliant - quite limitied in comparison), and instead opt for some different type of encoding. Don't worry about this though as Norway will definately use GSM.

To summerise... a UK unlocked dualband phone will DEFINATELY work in Norway
/Leo

not always my phone is dual badn and i've used it in usa nokia 3650 old bu tgreat symbian ftw Edit: i put pc

 

[Blaminator]

Norway is next to Sweden.

Sweden is full of barns.