My sister is in Shanghai on China Mobile, and she found a deal on a gs2 out there.
However in Canada she uses TELUS, which uses hspa on frequency bands 850/1900 mhz. TELUS does NOT use GSM. She wants to be able to use it in Canada too.
I was doing some Googling and I found that the China Mobile gs2 uses a different technology for their 3G but I'm not 100% sure.
Does anyone know more about this? Please let me know, thank you.
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there are 3 types of phone sold in China
Korean version (with the stuff for korean tv, nfc etc)
European version
and Hongkong version.
they advice chinese customer to buy the hongkong version if in the future china get the 4G. they say the european version wont work for it.
that's all I can tell you, I'm dumb with all the technical stuff
Oh really! That is helpful tho, thank you.
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Hi just wondering if any of u guys heard about this i was gonna buy a gs2 today from somebody and its a tmobile phone but the tripped out part is that it only accepted at&t sim cards not tmobiles. Any ideas thanks
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T mobile S2 is different from the international version. There is a separate forum for it on xda.
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The phone is obviously sim-locked, no need to redirect him to another forum.
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The phone is obviously sim-locked, no need to redirect him to another forum.
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Yes I understand that, but his problem is that it's T mobile but locked to at&t which is weird. Maybe someone in the correct forum knows about it. I doubt people here have heard of such a thing.
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So should i keep looking on this forum or try the other?
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endz213 said:
So should i keep looking on this forum or try the other?
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First thing you need to do is confirm model number. Look on the label under battery. Is it GT-I9100? Could be that it's a European T-Mobile Galaxy SII that somehow got sim-locked to AT&T.
T-Mobile Europe is different than T-Mobile USA, and uses different frequencies.
EDIT: FYI, GT-I9100 will work on both T-Mobile USA and AT&T, but will only get Edge data speeds on T-Mobile USA. It only gets 3G/H/H+ on AT&T's network, or other network that uses the same frequencies as AT&T. T-Mobile USA has their own bastardized version of the Galaxy SII, which is the SGH-T989.
In addition to that, AT&T has their own branded version of the Galaxy SII, which is the SGH-I777, and a bastardized version that is LTE enabled called the Skyrocket, which is the SGH-I727.
And this doesn't even mention all the other models for other North American carriers, or any of the Asian variants.
All really confusing, huh? Clear as mud?
Does anyone know where you can buy the Galaxy S3 in Japan. Im looking for the unlocked international version.. Online shops and actual store locations would really be helpful.
Don't know where if your buying in person but for online orders that you want shipped internationally
http://www.kyoex.com/
Will have them at some point when they launch in japan they sell them unlocked and switched to English.
However there spec's and design appear like they will be the exact same as the US/Canadian varients with the snapdragon CPU and 2GBs of ram.
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Sorry I realized I mis-read your post I thought you wanted the Japanese model shipped internationally lol.
If you want the international model sent to japan try http://www.expansys.jp/ they are selling the international version GT-I9300s rather than the custom ones that North America and Japan have ordered from Samsung.
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Hi all.I'm in the UK with the Samsung galaxy s3.and Orange/t~ mobile are advertising working 4g towards the end of the year.
Now I'm wondering is our s3 going to work on 4g ?
I've googled this and some sites say yes and others say no ?
Thanks in advance....
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Hi all.I'm in the UK with the Samsung galaxy s3.and Orange/t~ mobile are advertising working 4g towards the end of the year.
Now I'm wondering is our s3 going to work on 4g ?
I've googled this and some sites say yes and others say no ?
Thanks in advance....
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No, the GT-I9300 model does not and will not support 4G. This is the reason why the US Variants use a different SoC, as it has an inbuilt support for 4G, while the Exynos SoC does not.
4g is an absolute battery killer from what I can gather anyway, so not really bothered, do most of my downloading at home or over openzone
I reckon a Korean version would still give you the superior Exynos SOC, 2GB RAM and LTE/4G. I'm looking for somewhere to buy them. AFAIK Korean Telecomms use the same radio spectrum as we do.
The LTE version will soon be available in Germany,
Contact Orange in UK!!!!!!
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I reckon a Korean version would still give you the superior Exynos SOC, 2GB RAM and LTE/4G. I'm looking for somewhere to buy them. AFAIK Korean Telecomms use the same radio spectrum as we do.
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Yes that would work, although I would contact orange and see if they would comment on this, although try to make sure it would go through to someone in the UK not someone in India who is reading from a script!
If you do buy it from Korea be careful with ROM's and don't forget about import tax! :laugh:
Hi everybody
Hope somebody will be able to help me as i can't find the answer anywhere
Well, i'm going to NYC in few weeks and i would like to profit to buy a new phone. My question is : will a GS4 bought in america work with french network? Particularly HSPA+ and 4G (LTE).
I want to be sure that it'll be fully working here.
Thanks for any help guys
If you buy an unlocked one.. i think it should work.. Just check the bands that are used by French carriers and confirm that those are supported by S4.. i think it will be supported for sure..
Most people tell me it should work
Nice ! Hope it will ^^
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hi guys
here is the confirmation that it will work on both american and french market
Anyone know the difference between the canadian version of the galaxy mega i527m and the US AT&T version i527. Honestly I am new to android and wanted to buy one of these phones. Being a noob I assumed there was only one north american version. I am canadian so I ended up buying one from a ebay seller in canada, who's auction shows what looks to be a canadian device according to the photos of the box and model number, so I ended up buying it and am currently waiting for its arrival, but then soon after I bought it, I read on here about someone who bought one from the same ebay seller and received a brand new unlocked AT&T version. So if this ends up being the case for me as well, will the AT&T version work the same for me on my canadian carrier Telus? Will I be able to use the Telus LTE network for data? What other differences would their be?
Thanks in advance
The m version has the extra 1700mhz lte band in order to make it compatible with robelus' lte network. I don't think that you will get lte with the sgh-i527 version.
I almost did the same thing as you until I figured it out. So, I bought it locally in canada instead.
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I don't have the m but I have lte with bell
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If I get the "m" version....
Will I get ATT LTE in the US????
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