Sprints Touch Diamond GSM Compatibility

[Pihrana]

Hello.

Im new to the US. Moved in August, and trying to buy a phone which has at least some flashy features like my UK Viewty did when i bought it......

I'll be going to the UK around 4 times a year and I need a phone which will work their, but more importantly one which will work here in my US Home and Work office. That pretty much limits me to Sprint/Nextel, Alltel and Centennial.

I noticed on HTC's Touch Diamond page for the Sprint version that the device is....

Dual-band (800/1900Mhz), CDMA2000 1xEVDO Rev. A/1xRTT and IS-95A/B voice or data with up to 1.8 Mbps up-link and 3.1 Mbps down-link

I'm hoping that the Dual Band (800/1900Mhz) is important. However I get the feeling for this to be truly important to me, that it needs the letters GSM before the 800/1900Mhz.......... Is this correct?

Will this work on the UK 800/1900Mhz bands or am I truely stuck with a Blackberry or Samsung device for my International Roaming......

[cellphone-china]

maybe GSM 850/900/1800/1900Mhz can be used in your network, many available models here.

[liquidfire]

Originally Posted by cellphone-china

maybe GSM 850/900/1800/1900Mhz can be used in your network, many available models here.

umm....no

the viewty is a GSM phone. the UK runs off mostly if not all GSM networks. so no. the sprint htc touch diamond will not function on a GSM network. Sprint uses CDMA (so does Verizon, Alltel, and Centennial. Nextel uses iDen).

sprint phones do not have sim cards and therefore will NEVER EVER EVER!!!!!! work on ANY GSM network


if you want a phone the works here, you need to find a QUAD BAND GSM phone (ebay is your friend) and sign up with Att or t-mobile. they are both US-based GSM providers and with a quad band phone you can use your att sim and account here in the states and a prepaid sim in the UK

or.....you can pay an arm and a leg with verizon and get the Blackberry 8830 world edition phone or the POS Blackberry Storm. They both have international GSM radios built in so you could use them in the UK. However your bill will be HUGE!!

[sinfulta]

I'm I completely disagree with the last statement. First of all ATT charges the most for roaming, especially in the UK.

Verizon and Tmobile have the cheapest Roaming UK rates for voice and data, and if you did buy a Storm (Although I don't like the phone) You have a true world phone that will work with broadband data where it's available and can also be connected in the UK with Vodafone for pay as you go service.

I hate the storm so I would personally buy the Samsung Saga, comes complete with a Vodafone GSM chip, and has a physical keyboard, reliable phone, roaming bands you need, and the adapters for different countries in the box.