Hi, I live in the UK and I have just purchased a HTC Inspire from eBay.com
In the description the seller has stated that the device will take worldwide sim cards and should work with my O2 contract sim card.
The following is part of the description from the sellers page:
The Phone is Unlocked to all GSM networks and will work with any SIM card worldwide..But please note that 3G and 4G is only supported on AT&T (or any network that has the AT&T 3G Bands)
I'm just wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation and if they have had problems with things like - connecting to 3G, Wifi etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You will be able to talk and use mobile data anywhere there is GSM coverage. The only 3g band that O2 and the Incite share is 1900, so your 3g performance will be spotty at best. Wifi won't be a problem.
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neosny said:
Hi, I live in the UK and I have just purchased a HTC Inspire from eBay.com
In the description the seller has stated that the device will take worldwide sim cards and should work with my O2 contract sim card.
The following is part of the description from the sellers page:
The Phone is Unlocked to all GSM networks and will work with any SIM card worldwide..But please note that 3G and 4G is only supported on AT&T (or any network that has the AT&T 3G Bands)
I'm just wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation and if they have had problems with things like - connecting to 3G, Wifi etc.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Isn't the desire hd the phone you should get since its the euro based inspire?
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biglittlegato said:
You will be able to talk and use mobile data anywhere there is GSM coverage. The only 3g band that O2 and the Incite share is 1900, so your 3g performance will be spotty at best. Wifi won't be a problem.
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Thanks for the info! - less worried now lol
1.18.12 said:
Isn't the desire hd the phone you should get since its the euro based inspire?
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ye - I'd been looking for 1 on eBay.co.uk and also Gumtree for a while but the prices were just to much. (and I actually got scammed on 1 using Gumtree!)
So I decided to try eBay.com and found it cheaper
you will not be able to get 3G with the Inspire over there in UK. it only has 3G bands for ATT in the USA. so you will get old GSM, but not 3G.
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Hi everyone,
I'm currently in the USA for an internship and I'm tempted to buy an Inspire since it's so much cheaper than what it would cost back in the Netherlands. However I've searched a lot now and I can't figure this out.
Will the Inspire work on my network back in the Netherlands? I'm on T-mobile. I'm sure GSM will work and so on, but I would really like to know if 3G and even 4G will work back at home?
So, bottomline, buy or don't buy ?
,Jordy
Frixxion said:
Hi everyone,
I'm currently in the USA for an internship and I'm tempted to buy an Inspire since it's so much cheaper than what it would cost back in the Netherlands. However I've searched a lot now and I can't figure this out.
Will the Inspire work on my network back in the Netherlands? I'm on T-mobile. I'm sure GSM will work and so on, but I would really like to know if 3G and even 4G will work back at home?
So, bottomline, buy or don't buy ?
,Jordy
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Yes it will work but, if you want to use it on another gsm network in the Netherlands you will need to unlock it. I suggest you root it using the ace hack kit. I tested this method and I can say my phone is unlocked.
4G on the Inspire is HSDPA+ its just a upgraded 3g network. If your network in the Netherlands supports this you will have the same speeds or faster. Just check the freq for you home network with the inspire tech spec. I suspect it will work since its the same phone as the Desire HD sold in Europe.
Frixxion said:
Hi everyone,
I'm currently in the USA for an internship and I'm tempted to buy an Inspire since it's so much cheaper than what it would cost back in the Netherlands. However I've searched a lot now and I can't figure this out.
Will the Inspire work on my network back in the Netherlands? I'm on T-mobile. I'm sure GSM will work and so on, but I would really like to know if 3G and even 4G will work back at home?
So, bottomline, buy or don't buy ?
,Jordy
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Not if T-Mobile is your provider, T-Mobiles 3G/HSPA+ network uses different frequencies than the Inspire operates on. T-Mobile uses 1700/2100 for their 3G/HSPA+. ATT and the Inspire use 850/1900 (which T-Mobile uses for Edge). So with T-Mobile you'll get voice and Edge data, but no 3G/4G
Inspire Specs
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homeslice976 said:
Not if T-Mobile is your provider, T-Mobiles 3G/HSPA+ network uses different frequencies than the Inspire operates on. T-Mobile uses 1700/2100 for their 3G/HSPA+. ATT and the Inspire use 850/1900 (which T-Mobile uses for Edge). So with T-Mobile you'll get voice and Edge data, but no 3G/4G
Inspire Specs
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T-Mobile in Europe uses different frequencies than T-Mobile in the US (probably 900MHz or 2100MHz), but regardless, the Inspire won't support them.
yg17 said:
T-Mobile in Europe uses different frequencies than T-Mobile in the US (probably 900MHz or 2100MHz), but regardless, the Inspire won't support them.
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Good point. Looks like T-Mobile in the netherlands uses GSM1800 and WCDMA2100 - which won't give you high speed data on the Inspire
The Inspire does not suppprt 3g bands that are commonly used outside of north america, so while the phone will generally work, you can only get 2g (edge) data in Europe/Asia/etc..
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Will the T-mobile 4G Sensation work on the 3G networks in Europe?
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Will the T-mobile 4G Sensation work on the 3G networks in Europe?
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I asked the same question a couple weeks ago and got a positive confirmation from a poster visiting the UK and using a local SIM. So, the answer appears to be yes. I'm counting on it as well.
Yes. It has the 900/2100 MHz bands.
I will be taking mine to the UK on Tuesday, and using a local SIM, so I will know very shortly. I can let you know.
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Thank you for the answers. I have inserted a Bulgarian sim in it now and it reads it well, but I was not sure about the 3G network.
anyone here use a euro Sensation in the US? what carrier are you using and do you get 3G?
thank you in advance!
The US and EU are the same so you shouldn't have any issues and it will run at 4G.
And btw, Welcome to USA
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If it uses the same bands as the US version it should work for T-Mobile and Simple Mobile(prepaid mvno that uses t-mobiles tower).
Both gets 4G where its available.
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yup tmobile sells z710e and from your signature i can tell yours is z710e so there you have it!
Europe has GSM band. Don't think they use that in USA. But I heard att and T-Mobile should work though.
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I took my EU Sensation to Florida in Septemeber - bought a tmobile SIM and had it up and running within a few hours. The initial problem that I had was that my phone was registered with tmobile in the UK - so the tmobile apps didn't work in the US with the help of tech support they registered the phone with themselves and I was able to use the tmobile apps including the $1.34 for internet per day which you have to activate daily.
Of course, now that I'm back in the UK - my tmobile apps don't work here but I don't need them here.
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Europe has GSM band. Don't think they use that in USA. But I heard att and T-Mobile should work though.
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I believe that T-Mobile US is the same as Euro based phones, i.e. uses the same bands, 900Mhz, and AWS. Bell Canada and AT&T US use 850MHz which isn't compatible. They're both GSM for Voice, the data frequencies are different though.
Please correct if I've got that wrong. I know I looked up some of this and it all got scary.
There are various posts on the subject.
I found this so you can plug the county in and see what's compatibile.
(850MHz) http://www.gsmnation.com/htc-sensation-z710a-3g-850-1900-mhz.html
(900MHz) http://www.gsmnation.com/htc-sensation.html
EDIT: Why is life so complicated ? I thought we had it simple now, guess again. At least Pan Europe there is one standard (or so I believe).
Have fun.
thanks for all your input guys! i guess T-Mo is the way to go. my wife said that when she was back in the US (Hawaii and NY), she was not getting 3G on T-Mo while she was there.
could that just be that we don't have a 3G plan?
Hi.
My htc has my T-Mobile sim card, so I assume its GSM phone. I use phone in UK.
Question:
Does HTC evo 3D have 4G connection or not? nobody is certain.. some even say it has 3.5G. what the..
If My phone is 4G compatible, I also heard that UK does not have 4G network. Is that true also?
And if that is true, is it possible to break my phones software so badly, that it would use x2 3G connections?
Matrixiux said:
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My htc has my T-Mobile sim card, so I assume its GSM phone. I use phone in UK.
Question:
Does HTC evo 3D have 4G connection or not? nobody is certain.. some even say it has 3.5G. what the..
If My phone is 4G compatible, I also heard that UK does not have 4G network. Is that true also?
And if that is true, is it possible to break my phones software so badly, that it would use x2 3G connections?
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According to specs the evo 3D can use 4G but uk firmware doesn't so you would need to change its rom and wait til uk gets 4G.
Uk won't have 4G for another year or so and even then only in major cities.
And no you can't use two 3G connections on it to get higher speeds as you can't get two connections on one phone.
Dave
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I live in London, and the phone originaly was from Singapore. Does that info do any good?
Not really as London won't have 4G until at least end this year as ofcom just announced orange / t-mobiles parent company can repurpose their 2G masts to become lte ones and that could take a year but southwark in London did become first uk area to get 4G last week so if your in the right area then its possible but unlikely.
Singapore has 4G so your phone probably supports it but uk won't have it yet so in a year yes you should be able to use it in London. Sooner if your an orange or tmobile customer as they will likely repurpose their city masts first.
Dave
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Not really as London won't have 4G until at least end this year as ofcom just announced orange / t-mobiles parent company can repurpose their 2G masts to become lte ones and that could take a year but southwark in London did become first uk area to get 4G last week so if your in the right area then its possible but unlikely.
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dont forget that 4g is just a general term - which kind of 4g will be used? cdma evo 3g supports WiMax, gsm evo 3d afaik supports only hdspa (3.5g) but maybe there's the possibility to activate wimax - yet if your carrier roll out LTE you are still out of luck (and wimax has been a failure, nobody is adopting it anymore).
btw even lte has more than one substandard so even lte phones can be incompatible when moved from one carrier to another.
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dont forget that 4g is just a general term - which kind of 4g will be used? cdma evo 3g supports WiMax, gsm evo 3d afaik supports only hdspa (3.5g) but maybe there's the possibility to activate wimax - yet if your carrier roll out LTE you are still out of luck (and wimax has been a failure, nobody is adopting it anymore).
btw even lte has more than one substandard so even lte phones can be incompatible when moved from one carrier to another.
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In uk it refers to lte as trialed by a couple of mobile providers last year. Uk uses gsm not cdma network.
Dave
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UK uses GSM and WCDMA.
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UK uses GSM and WCDMA.
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No it doesn't. I live in uk and we use only gsm as does most of europe.
Dave
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mistermentality said:
No it doesn't. I live in uk and we use only gsm as does most of europe.
Dave
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So do I. Yes we do. My network is 3. Which is a WCDMA UMTS 2100mhz operating carrier.
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So do I. Yes we do. My network is 3. Which is a WCDMA UMTS 2100mhz operating carrier.
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Wdcma is not cdma. They have a similar name but you cannot use a cdma phone on any uk network. Please read link below to see for yourself that wcdma is completely different.
Uk uses gsm and then wcdma for the 3G but not cdma which is not in use here.
Dave
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mistermentality said:
Wdcma is not cdma. They have a similar name but you cannot use a cdma phone on any uk network. Please read link below to see for yourself that wcdma is completely different.
Uk uses gsm and then wcdma for the 3G but not cdma which is not in use here.
Dave
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I know. I am not using a CDMA phone.
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I think there's been a misunderstanding as your reply saying uk used wcdma and gsm followed my own saying it does not use cdma so I thought you were meaning cdma was same as wcdma.
I was just trying to explain we don't use cdma as that is a competitor to gsm and cdma only phones won't work in uk.
Dave
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Thank you guys for your Activity, but as a newbie, I dont know what they really mean.
So you saying that network 3 is running WCDMA? Which is what exactly?
and what is the CDMA? Is it a simless phone? And would 1 work in Europe countrys like UK?
You see, my evo 3D is running original android software, and all I could see in my notification bar, its allways running "G" icon, very VERY rarely I see 3G icon.. so thats why I was thinking, why I have never ever seen 4G connection icon, whiles I saw Galaxy having nice 3G connection icon in all the time..
Is it possible to jailbrake my 1.49.0011 GSM revolutionary method, and can I install a good custom rom that would force 3G connection all the time?
mistermentality said:
I think there's been a misunderstanding as your reply saying uk used wcdma and gsm followed my own saying it does not use cdma so I thought you were meaning cdma was same as wcdma.
I was just trying to explain we don't use cdma as that is a competitor to gsm and cdma only phones won't work in uk.
Dave
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Apologies buddy.
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Hi all. I have just looked at my optimus 3d (uk) and my network is.showing EE (This is the name of oranges 4g network they will be rolling out soon.
Does that mean this phone is fully 4g compatible? (I know the thrill is 4g but would like clarification)
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mcscruff said:
Hi all. I have just looked at my optimus 3d (uk) and my network is.showing EE (This is the name of oranges 4g network they will be rolling out soon.
Does that mean this phone is fully 4g compatible? (I know the thrill is 4g but would like clarification)
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That's strange, I'm on T-Mobile UK but my O3D hasn't changed yet to EE although I've had a text to say it will, so I guess their in the process of rolling out the new network. The phone is 4G ready (T-mobile confirmed last week) but you will need a new 4G sim card and obviously a new 4G price plan for it to work.
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That's strange, I'm on T-Mobile UK but my O3D hasn't changed yet to EE although I've had a text to say it will, so I guess their in the process of rolling out the new network. The phone is 4G ready (T-mobile confirmed last week) but you will need a new 4G sim card and obviously a new 4G price plan for it to work.
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I think you are confusing that the Optimus 3D is considered 4G ready in the US as they stupidly refer to HSDPA as 4G over there, which over here is 3.5G. There are no 4G ready phones over here yet as the EE network uses a different frequency to what current phones support for LTE (what powers 4G). They will require phones specifically adapted to their network and so no doubt they will be priced accordingly.
I figure the point is moot anyway as the poor speeds on T-Mobile aren't due to limitations to do with 3.5G, they deliberately throttle your speeds. That leads to be to believe that the related cost to actually get a decent speeds on their 4G network will be pretty high.
Its for this reason I am not bothered about 4G yet. For general web browsing the 1Mbit I get on 3.5G is sufficient, if I want any faster I can use WiFi. If I really REALLY needed more speed I would switch to Three which would get a huge speed boost without needing to buy a new phone. I only stick with T-Mobile because their call/text packages are good value and their coverage is excellent, which is more important than uber speed browsing to me.
That's 4G ready as in EE's 4G band will be in the 1800 Mhz range and that's one of the ranges that the O3D is capable of receiving. That was confirmed to me by T-Mobile UK.
I would expect that EE's 4G offering will come at a premium (at least for about a year until the other networks can provide 4G) but a work colleague popped into a new EE shop and they told him that an unlimited data plan would only be about £5 over and above a current 3G unlimited data.
To me, that sounds pretty good...
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I'm an an O2 unlimited data plan and I'll keep it going when 4g gets rolled out. I plan to pay no extra charges, same way I tether for free.
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