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MariaC - 27 Oct 2005 12:36 GMT

I am travelling abroad soon and I heard that it was better to get a
European phone rather than bringing your own phone over there and have
massive charges. Anyways, I am looking for a
NOKIA 3310 GMS EUROPEAN CELLPHONE. If anyone has this model can you
please contact me right away. Pick up must be done in downtown Toronto
or Scarborough. Thanks!

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siempre fresco - 27 Oct 2005 13:22 GMT

MariaC Wrote:

> I am travelling abroad soon and I heard that it was better to get a
> European phone rather than bringing your own phone over there and have
> massive charges. Anyways, I am looking for a
> NOKIA 3310 GMS EUROPEAN CELLPHONE. If anyone has this model can you
> please contact me right away. Pick up must be done in downtown Toronto
> or Scarborough. Thanks!

check out ebay theres plenty of them overther

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Peter Thomas - 28 Oct 2005 13:52 GMT

>I am travelling abroad soon and I heard that it was better to get a
>European phone rather than bringing your own phone over there and have
>massive charges. Anyways, I am looking for a
>NOKIA 3310 GMS EUROPEAN CELLPHONE. If anyone has this model can you
>please contact me right away. Pick up must be done in downtown Toronto
>or Scarborough. Thanks!

What phone do you have now? if your phone will work in Europe then I
would suggest you take it with you and purchase a PAYG sim card in
each of the European countries you visit.

The next best option would be, as you suggest, to buy a phone that
will work in Europe - but to save money you will also need to purchase
a sim card for each country

The last option, the one you've sensibly abandoned, is to take your
current phone and roam.

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Mike S. - 28 Oct 2005 19:04 GMT

>>I am travelling abroad soon and I heard that it was better to get a
>>European phone rather than bringing your own phone over there and have
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>would suggest you take it with you and purchase a PAYG sim card in
>each of the European countries you visit.

Only if it is not subsidy-locked to the SIM of his US carrier.

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Peter Thomas - 29 Oct 2005 17:01 GMT

>>>I am travelling abroad soon and I heard that it was better to get a
>>>European phone rather than bringing your own phone over there and have
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>Only if it is not subsidy-locked to the SIM of his US carrier.

All (?) of the UK mobile companies lock their PAYG phones - but they
are relatively striaghtforward to unlock (certainly Nokia's are) - is
this not the case in N America?

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Ivor Jones - 31 Oct 2005 17:22 GMT

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> All (?) of the UK mobile companies lock their PAYG phones
> - but they are relatively striaghtforward to unlock
> (certainly Nokia's are) - is this not the case in N
> America?

Given that a large proportion of US mobiles (sorry cellphones) are
CDMA/TDMA rather than GSM (and also analogue) and don't have SIM cards at
all, it's far from straightfoward..!

Ivor

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Peter - 31 Oct 2005 20:56 GMT

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>Ivor

Can't argue with that :-)

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