MikeXiao Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 My wife's brother wants her to bring him a 3g phone. Anyone have any ideas of phones we can buy here that he could use in China????Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy W Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 My wife's brother wants her to bring him a 3g phone. Anyone have any ideas of phones we can buy here that he could use in China????Thanks http://www.timtechs.com/3g_cell_phones_ql136.html Be sure you buy an unlocked phone, or at least one that you can easily unlock (for use with any carrier) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 He is probably better off buying a phone in China, unless he can't get what he wants. The phones are always unlocked in China. Does China even have 3g? I know I can't get it anywhere in Shanghai. It has been in the news alot about developing 3g networks, but I am not sure that it exists in China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
credzba Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 He is probably better off buying a phone in China, unless he can't get what he wants. The phones are always unlocked in China. Does China even have 3g? I know I can't get it anywhere in Shanghai. It has been in the news alot about developing 3g networks, but I am not sure that it exists in China. My 3g phone always works in China for voice service. The 3g/2g etc. are the advanced function (usually internet access) specification. If all you want to do is talk on your phone, any quad band phone that uses a sim chip will work. Get quad, not tri band as I believe the additional band is the one used in China. As for unlocking them, cell providers (at&t) have gotten very reasonable with this. I got 2 new phones with my service plan, called at&t support and told them I was going to china, and wanted them unlocked so I could use them there. The took a minute and gave me the unlock code and walked me through unlocking the phones. I still wish I had a Chinese phone though, because my american phone wont allow me to input or receive Chinese characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 He is probably better off buying a phone in China, unless he can't get what he wants. The phones are always unlocked in China. Does China even have 3g? I know I can't get it anywhere in Shanghai. It has been in the news alot about developing 3g networks, but I am not sure that it exists in China. My 3g phone always works in China for voice service. The 3g/2g etc. are the advanced function (usually internet access) specification. If all you want to do is talk on your phone, any quad band phone that uses a sim chip will work. Get quad, not tri band as I believe the additional band is the one used in China. As for unlocking them, cell providers (at&t) have gotten very reasonable with this. I got 2 new phones with my service plan, called at&t support and told them I was going to china, and wanted them unlocked so I could use them there. The took a minute and gave me the unlock code and walked me through unlocking the phones. I still wish I had a Chinese phone though, because my american phone wont allow me to input or receive Chinese characters. I don't have any problem with voice over GSM, which is what AT&T uses. I can usually pick up the Edge network for data, but I have never been able to pick up 3g in Shanghai. I question whether 3g exists anywhere in China. I really don't know. AT&T will sometimes unlock phones for long time customers. They did it with my Epix, but I made them agree to do it before I bought the phone. My colleagues have had varying degrees of success. If your phones is out of contract, no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_dawei Posted April 4, 2009 Report Share Posted April 4, 2009 Take a look in ebay and craigslist for your area... lots of keywords can be used in combination:- phone, iphone, 2g, 3g, quadband, GSM, P168, i9, etc. The iphone does setup in chinese... so you can see menu in chinese, and send / receive in chinese... it allows a few input types. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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