Well, I am one of those people who had a Rogers phone (some Motorola)<br>with a GSM SIM card from them too. I hated the phone and got an HTC unlocked<br>one with a sliding keyboard, touchscreen, WiFi, ..etc. from eBay. Put my SIM<br>
card in it and it works fine.<br><br>I have a prepaid plan which comes to less than $10 per month ($100 lasts a year<br>and carries forward if you do not use it all).<br><br>The catch? They charge more for data than on the original phone. They can<br>
easily detect that because the IMEI number is different. But there is a business<br>reason for this: the Motorola used a WAP proxy and hence the pages I browsed<br>were converted to a very small size byte wise. With the HTC phone, I was browsing<br>
the web as it is, graphics and all. So the $0.05 per page price no longer applies.<br><br>Bottom line: they detect that you changed the phone, not via any hidden firmware<br>or all that, but a simple match of the SIM vs. the IMEI number. They let you use the<br>
handset you chose, with the above caveat re: data.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:17 PM, R. Brent Clements <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rbclemen@gmail.com">rbclemen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Bell has a couple of "world edition" phones that do GSM if you put a<br>
card in them. I heard that rogers spent millions of dollars finding a<br>
way to detect if a Rogers Sim card was in a non-Rogers phone. The<br>
solution was apparently hidden firmware that periodically phones home.<br>
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On 12/17/09, Gary Walsh <<a href="mailto:gwalsh@notw.ca">gwalsh@notw.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 15:21 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:<br>
>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> > For handsets, there is a new Android "Droid" phone that is getting<br>
>> > good reviews.<br>
>><br>
>> is that available thru a canadian carrier? i didn't see it as an<br>
>> option anywhere i was shopping.<br>
>><br>
> It is known as the Motorola Milestone in Canada and Europe and will be<br>
> available from Telus in the new year.<br>
> --<br>
> Gary Walsh <<a href="mailto:gwalsh@notw.ca">gwalsh@notw.ca</a>><br>
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