Re: Razr a no-go in Europe?

chesnut wrote:
> I've just returned from 4 months in Holland. Before I left, I purchased
> an unlocked Motorola V3 quad band. Upon arriving in Holland and
> inserting the sim card I had purchased, no signal. The helpful phone
> shop guy tried several other cards to no avail. I ended up having to
> buy a different phone. He said he had heard that these phones wouldn't
> work in Europe despite being quad band GSM. Was he just blowing smoke
> or do these things really not work as advertised?
>
> Don
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Sounds as though it wasn't actually unlocked...?

foolish_consistency@hobgoblin.com (RWEmerson) wrote in
news:46FC540A.4000805@hobgoblin.com:

> Sounds as though it wasn't actually unlocked...?

If it wasn't unlocked, it would have immediately asked for a
subsidy code when turned on with the "foreign" SIM card installed.

Most (all?) multi-band GSM phones have menu settings for selecting
what bands they'll work on. Mine has "Automatic", "850/1900" and
"900/1800". Maybe his was set for "850/1900", the US standard.

But, what's this thread doing in "alt.internet.wireless"?

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