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Masterpiece:
Well, sorry to say that, but "unlocked" meaning "oh yeah it's not really unlocked, we're just fuckin' with ya" is kind of a bullshit move.

If a phone is unlocked in Germany, it will work on EVERY carrier. And phone manufacturers must provide unlocked phones in some way or another.

ackblom12:
Well, it's not because the carriers purposefully block them exactly, it's because some use FDMA and some use CDMA. Our carriers just never got around to agreeing on which standard to use.

Edit: Wait, or is it the GSM and UMTS freqencies that I'm thinking of?

mtmerrick:
Gsm/hsdpa/HSPA are the global standard that Unlocked devices are compatible with

Method of Madness:
Each is half right. It's GSM and CDMA. Verizon and Sprint are on CDMA, so unlocked phones don't work on them.

LTK:
I was just wondering: is it at all possible to specifically disable the phone functions on android? We can disable GPS, bluetooth, wifi, 3G, mobile broadband altogether, but I can't press a button that stops me from getting calls and text messages altogether while having the rest enabled. It's something that bothered me about my unlocked Sony Reader as well: according to the battery usage stats, 'mobile standby' was using the highest percentage of battery life, when the reader didn't even have a mobile radio. (Although I could be misremembering that and the battery usage was under 'phone idle' instead, which would make more sense.)

I assume airplane mode does turn it off, but isn't it still weird that the primary function of a phone cannot be directly controlled?

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