ahh, now i know why SIM chips are not popular here

180px-T-Mobile_SIM_card_front_and_back.jpgAccording to Wikipedia:

The use of SIM card is mandatory in the GSM world, whereas the SIM is not very popular in the CDMA world.

T-Mobile is also based in Europe, so that's why all of their phones have a SIM chip. Verizon, being based only in the US, has theirs built-in.

I got a fellow co-worker that wants to replace her phone. She wants my chocolate, but it's the euro version, not the verizon one, but she cannot buy one off a reseller because her verizon phone has no SIM chip so she cannot switch. Bollux!

hmm, looks like no SIM for Verizon (except for worldphones i think), Nextel, Sprint, Cingular/ATT (though they are in the process of converting to GSM eventually. yay!).

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Posted by: Shaiar
Posted on: December 15, 2006 04:40 AM

I can use my Rogers SIM card in the Verizon Palm Tero 650 is there any way i can replaced in that phone which is unlocked phone.


thanx

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