Verizon released the Treo 650 today.

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Verizon released the Treo 650 today.

A question though. I have both Verizon and TMobile service. I use
TMobile for travel to Europe with a SonyErricson T610. As I understand
it the Treo uses a SIM card. Is it possible to take out the Verizon SIM
and replace it with the TMobile SIM and use the phone with TMobile and
vice-versa?

How would one go about doing this since TMobile does not carry the 650
and according to their rep they have no plans to carry it.

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this phone will work with GSM and CDMA after being unlocked? I didn't
know CDMA even had SIM cards...

On Wed, 25 May 2005 15:11:36 GMT, "punk-tilous"
<punktilious@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>"Carl Price" <carl.price@comcast.REMOVETHIS.net> wrote in message
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>> Verizon released the Treo 650 today.
>>
>> A question though. I have both Verizon and TMobile service. I use
>> TMobile for travel to Europe with a SonyErricson T610. As I understand
>> it the Treo uses a SIM card. Is it possible to take out the Verizon SIM
>> and replace it with the TMobile SIM and use the phone with TMobile and
>> vice-versa?
>>
>> How would one go about doing this since TMobile does not carry the 650
>> and according to their rep they have no plans to carry it.
>>
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>This phone is probably "locked" so that it will only work with Verizon SIM
>cards. I know this holds true for the Treo 650 being sold by Cingular.
>However, for about $20 to $30, you can have it "unlocked" so that it will
>take any SIM card.
>

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Carl Price wrote:
> Verizon released the Treo 650 today.
>
> A question though. I have both Verizon and TMobile service. I use
> TMobile for travel to Europe with a SonyErricson T610. As I
> understand it the Treo uses a SIM card. Is it possible to take out
> the Verizon SIM and replace it with the TMobile SIM and use the phone
> with TMobile and vice-versa?
>
> How would one go about doing this since TMobile does not carry the 650
> and according to their rep they have no plans to carry it.

There are two Treo 650 models. The one using a SIM is the quadband GSM
model. The one Verizon (and Sprint) have is a dualband CDMA model, no SIM
allowed.Visit http://www.palmone.com/ .

John C.

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No,

The Verizon model is totally different that the T-Mobile version. The
Verizon model uses CDMA technology while the T-Mobile uses GSM technology.
There is not a sim card in the Verizon phone to change or replace.

In other words the answer is "NO."

Bruce D. Brown

"singha_lvr" <singha_lvr@nospam.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 25 May 2005 00:43:34 -0400, Carl Price
> <carl.price@comcast.REMOVETHIS.net> wrote:
>
>>Verizon released the Treo 650 today.
>>
>>A question though. I have both Verizon and TMobile service. I use
>>TMobile for travel to Europe with a SonyErricson T610. As I understand
>>it the Treo uses a SIM card. Is it possible to take out the Verizon SIM
>>and replace it with the TMobile SIM and use the phone with TMobile and
>>vice-versa?
>>
>>How would one go about doing this since TMobile does not carry the 650
>>and according to their rep they have no plans to carry it.
>
> Impossible.
>
> Verizon (and Sprint) uses a different technology than other carriers.
> It's called CDMA and (at least in the US implementation) does NOT use
> a SIM card. If you want to use a GSM phone you'll need to get the
> phone from Cingular or T-Mobile. (I don't think T-Mobile has the 650
> yet, but at least it uses GSM with a SIM card.)
>
> The two phones (Treo 650- CDMA and Treo 650-GSM) are very different
> and are not interchangable.
>