Has anyone had any experience using these in the puerto plata area? Thanks for any info. I did a seach and ycouldnt find anything
Escott said:Hi Ricky,
I haven't seen these new phones in the DR yet. They will be as good as the provider it is made for. Do you know if it is CDMA or GSM? With that info we can tell you about the carrier and how good or bad they are along with your choices.
Escott said:Hi Ricky,
I haven't seen these new phones in the DR yet. They will be as good as the provider it is made for. Do you know if it is CDMA or GSM? With that info we can tell you about the carrier and how good or bad they are along with your choices.
Thanks Rick. Do you use a Canadian wireless cell service ie Telus for both voice and emails when you are in the Dr?ricktoronto said:It is GSM for the voice part (mine is a cell, too) and GPRS (general packet radio service) and mine works as far as Miami , gets an Orange GSM lock on but no GPRS probably since nobody uses it in the DR yet. Well looking at the above I guess it is whatever T Mobile uses but I pay 15 cents per 150K of roaming in MIA or DFW etc, so fifteen bucks a megabyte is robbery.
Then the only carrier that can be used in the DR is Orange which is hit or miss. Codetel/verizon is the best coverage.ricktoronto said:It is GSM for the voice part (mine is a cell, too) and GPRS (general packet radio service) and mine works as far as Miami , gets an Orange GSM lock on but no GPRS probably since nobody uses it in the DR yet. Well looking at the above I guess it is whatever T Mobile uses but I pay 15 cents per 150K of roaming in MIA or DFW etc, so fifteen bucks a megabyte is robbery.
Escott said:Then the only carrier that can be used in the DR is Orange which is hit or miss. Codetel/verizon is the best coverage.
Scott
p2020 said:There is a GSM and a CDMA version of the device (and even an iDEN version for Nexel in the US).
As someone wrote before you might be able to use it for browsing and checking webmail but the most popular push application for email is not going to work unless the carrier has the backend systems, which as far as I understand they don't. Please correct me if I am wrong on this last part.
rickymartin said:Thanks Rick. Do you use a Canadian wireless cell service ie Telus for both voice and emails when you are in the Dr?
TEHAMA said:RickToronto:
I am not computer savy at all! Could have been 100 megabyte, kilo byte, gigabyte...I dont know. What I know is it came to $7.00 and I did not alter my normal email activities.
TEHAMA
ricktoronto said:It is GSM for the voice part (mine is a cell, too) and GPRS (general packet radio service) and mine works as far as Miami , gets an Orange GSM lock on but no GPRS probably since nobody uses it in the DR yet. Well looking at the above I guess it is whatever T Mobile uses but I pay 15 cents per 150K of roaming in MIA or DFW etc, so fifteen bucks a megabyte is robbery.