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I finally got tired of sprint promising a CDMA bluetooth cell phone, which they have been saying is coming "soon" for the last 8 months see this page, so since they now have the wireless number portability laws in effect I am going over to a GSM carrier, T-Mobile, and ditching sprint. I got the Sony Ericsson T610. I got the phone for free, unless you count the cost of leaving sprint before my contract is up but that is only $150 and well worth it to get a bluetooth cell phone.

This will be nice, I have had bluetooth on my laptop and my palm pilot for the last 10 months now, finally my cell phone is catching up with my other stuff. I have also ordered a bluetooth ear mic for it, so I probably will never have to touch the phone for a call, dial from the palm talk on the ear mic, and then surf the web on the palm after the call.

I am still just wanting for the number to be moved over from sprint to t-mobil, I bought the phone on Friday the 28 at 8pm and here it is Saturday 11pm. They said it could take as long as 72 hours to port the number, I figure it will take the full 72 hours, because sprint will want to make it as painful to leave as they can, but I am willing to want the full time I need to. But for now I still have to use the sprint phone till the number gets ported.

I also like the idea of the SIMM card being activated and not the phone, so in the future if I ever want a different cell phone I just have to put the SIMM in the new phone and not have to deal with activating the phone or the related cost, with sprint (and verzion) you have to activate the phone there is not jumping from phone to phone easily.

Update: Monday Dec 1, 2003 9:30am
I finaly got the number moved, sprint does something very odd, on the bill there was a -2 at the end of the account number, so they put it in at t-mobile, so sprint was rejecting the request, only when the person at t-mobile try droping the 2 from the account number did it go though. So now my cell phone number is on T-Mobile and not Sprint. Finaly bluetooth and SMS messaging.

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  • I'm about to do the same (hop to t-mobile), just haven't had the time (since number portability) till this weekend. And if you think I'm going anywhere near a mall in the week following Thanksgiving, you'd be wrong.

    I hadn't thought about the "activating the chip" thing. What's involved in moving the chip from one phone to another? Just open & swap? If so, that may solve my last dilema. I couldn't decide if I wanted to go with a motorola phone, or one with a camera built in. If I can switch in a few seco

    • Yes, apperantly that is all it takes. pop it out and pop it into a new phone, your subscriber stuff (and address book) are stored on the chip. ( you do have to force the address book to the simm chip on some phones) so not only will you be able to move phones, you will be able to keep your address book across the phones.
  • Can ANYONE explain to me why SIMM cards are necessarily tied to GSM carriers? Seems like a memory card should have little or nothing to do w/ the protocol over which calls come and go. It irks me to hell and back that I can't get a SIMM card on a TDMA phone ... grr.

    At least I can port my number, which I'm planning on doing with glee (see ya Nextel!) tomorrow. Mmmmm.
    -j
    • That would seam right to me, why can not a tdma or a cdma company beable to do them. The only thing I can think of is that they don't want to do them. That way they can have an iron fist control over the phones that work on their network. It is my understanding that with the gsm phone I have if I get any cell phone that does gsm on the same freq that T-Mobile does, I can go buy it and use it with out T-Mobile first having to support it. I got a felling that sprint does not want that, hence the 7 month d

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