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21-11-2009, 08:36 PM
Madox

HTC my mate has one whos in all my classes and he lets me play on it dude i could lick this phone its so butiful, i mean it hasnt got a qwerty keyboard but the stuff it dose its like the iphone but x100 better what phone has 2 headphone sockets to lsiten to two diffrent things at same time ? yepp the htc phone has
22-11-2009, 01:25 PM
Starburst1345

Yes it's definately the HTC I will be going for - I breifly looked at the Vodafone 360 Sumsung H1 as they reccomended it in the vodafone shop

It was made out to be as good if not better as the HTC in the shop however after looking into it online it turns out the Vodafone 360 Samsung H1 is not that great afterall

Next step is trying to get my hands on a HTC HD2 before Christmas. Maybe I could buy it sim-free from amazon -

If I bought it from amazon (sim free) would I be able to put any sim in it? E.g. could I put my vodafone sim with my existing contract in it and would it work?
22-11-2009, 02:11 PM
Jordy

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Originally Posted by Star

Yes it's definately the HTC I will be going for - I breifly looked at the Vodafone 360 Sumsung H1 as they reccomended it in the vodafone shop

It was made out to be as good if not better as the HTC in the shop however after looking into it online it turns out the Vodafone 360 Samsung H1 is not that great afterall

Next step is trying to get my hands on a HTC HD2 before Christmas. Maybe I could buy it sim-free from amazon -

If I bought it from amazon (sim free) would I be able to put any sim in it? E.g. could I put my vodafone sim with my existing contract in it and would it work?

Yeah it would be unlocked (Works on any network). And you could put any sim which has a contract in it.

One word of advice though, don't buy off Amazon they're rather expensive compared to elsewhere.

Clove Technology seems cheapest at £504, my dads bought two phones from them in the past. http://www.clove.co.uk/viewProduct.a...campaign=pound
22-11-2009, 03:29 PM
HotelUser

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Originally Posted by Star

Yes it's definately the HTC I will be going for - I breifly looked at the Vodafone 360 Sumsung H1 as they reccomended it in the vodafone shop

It was made out to be as good if not better as the HTC in the shop however after looking into it online it turns out the Vodafone 360 Samsung H1 is not that great afterall

Next step is trying to get my hands on a HTC HD2 before Christmas. Maybe I could buy it sim-free from amazon -

If I bought it from amazon (sim free) would I be able to put any sim in it? E.g. could I put my vodafone sim with my existing contract in it and would it work?

With HTC phones usually to unlock it you buy an unlock code from eBay, put the foreign SIM card in the phone, and it will ask you for the unlock code.

When you BUY the unlock code from eBay make sure the carrier is the same as the original carrier for the device. They will ask you for the phone's IMEI code, which you can find by dialing *#06#.

After that you can use your new carrier with the phone for calling and SMS. MMS and data (web browsing) wont work until you've reconfigured the APN settings on your device. You can either pay your new carrier to do this for you or you can search around for your carrier's APN settings and do it yourself. Windows Mobile most likely stores this information in an XML file or the registry (yes unfortunately you wont be rid of the Windows registry).
22-11-2009, 03:45 PM
x-glow

iPhone 3GS unlocked FTw
22-11-2009, 03:53 PM
Starburst1345

Quote:

Originally Posted by HotelUser

With HTC phones usually to unlock it you buy an unlock code from eBay, put the foreign SIM card in the phone, and it will ask you for the unlock code.

When you BUY the unlock code from eBay make sure the carrier is the same as the original carrier for the device. They will ask you for the phone's IMEI code, which you can find by dialing *#06#.

After that you can use your new carrier with the phone for calling and SMS. MMS and data (web browsing) wont work until you've reconfigured the APN settings on your device. You can either pay your new carrier to do this for you or you can search around for your carrier's APN settings and do it yourself. Windows Mobile most likely stores this information in an XML file or the registry (yes unfortunately you wont be rid of the Windows registry).

But if I am buying it brand new , it wont be locked right? So I wont need an unlock code? Im rubbish at all this tech stuff sorry

And also thanks to all posters above, you have all been really really helpful! :D
22-11-2009, 04:11 PM
Josh-H

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Originally Posted by Star

But if I am buying it brand new , it wont be locked right? So I wont need an unlock code? Im rubbish at all this tech stuff sorry

And also thanks to all posters above, you have all been really really helpful! :D

If you buy it unlocked (sim-free) then you won't beed an unlock code :)

It's an expensive way to do things though.
22-11-2009, 04:17 PM
Starburst1345

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Originally Posted by Josh-H

If you buy it unlocked (sim-free) then you won't beed an unlock code :)

It's an expensive way to do things though.

Yeah it is but if you look on the bright side at least your not getting tied into a long contract :D
22-11-2009, 05:02 PM
HotelUser

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Originally Posted by Star

Yeah it is but if you look on the bright side at least your not getting tied into a long contract :D

I bought my HTC phone from eBay, for $250 less than it would of cost to buy directly from HTC. It was off contract, but it was locked in with a Canadian Carrier, Rogers (as I'm Canadian). All I did was pay $6 to an eBayer who gave me an unlock code within the day.
27-11-2009, 02:09 PM
Starburst1345

Just to let you guys know i have bought the htc hd2 and am waiting for delivery - hopefully it should come soon. As i said before thanks so much for all the help everyone im so glad to finally be getting rid of this se c905 lol

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