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Unlocked phone on Cingular

knvinvest

Sep 3, 2006, 3:52 PM
I am thinking of purchasing an unlocked Nokia phone and using it on Cingular's network. From what I was told, using the unlocked phone will not allow me to do certain things, i.e. send text messages, multi-media messages and take pictures with the camera phone.

Is that true? Can anyone confirm this for me?
If that is the case, what do I have to do to get it corrected?

Details are good.

Thanks
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cremz

Sep 3, 2006, 4:14 PM
You can text message, take pictures and movies, but you cannot send multimedia messages or use the internet functions. The only way to have full functionality is to buy a cingular phone. Hope it helps....
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dangparts

Sep 3, 2006, 5:17 PM
thats not true u can go to nokias website and get the setting sent to ur phone or call cingular and get them to talk u through setting u the phone but its a lot faster to go to nokia
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Icyhot

Sep 4, 2006, 1:26 AM
That is absolutely INCORRECT. You can do anything with a non branded unlocked phone as you can with a Cingular phone.
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bonecrusher

Sep 4, 2006, 2:13 AM
Can you even download things from medianet? Does Cingular recognize what type of phone you have? I have tmobile service and it does not recognized my Nokia N73 so I cant download anything from t-zones but I can still surf the net and do everything else they mentioned.
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dangparts

Sep 4, 2006, 6:19 AM
i have had my 6682 for a year now i got it unlocked from nokia and i have no problem downloading games and things like that and they dont recognize the phone that u have the only way they know is if u tell them
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Icyhot

Sep 4, 2006, 7:01 AM
Ive never tried. To be quite honest, media net has nothing that I want to download anyway.
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bigdave1953

Sep 4, 2006, 6:44 PM
You can use a unlocked or unbranded phone on Cingular , go to www.motox.info for settings for media net , they have good info for you to use .. Good Luck
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chainsaw

Sep 4, 2006, 12:36 PM
http://www.nokiausa.com/support/settings/1,1921,,00. ... »

Utilize this website off of nokiausa.com to send the mms and gprs setting to your phone. It works flawlessly. sony ericcson also offers a similar service on their site for anyone who wants to know!
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Rob545

Sep 6, 2006, 3:53 PM
does motorola offer the same thing?
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chainsaw

Sep 6, 2006, 4:15 PM
probably not. moto is lame.
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dangparts

Sep 6, 2006, 6:32 PM
i haven been able to find anything like that from moto i had to call cingular to got the settings i spent an hour and a half on the phone with them but i got it
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mistercrinkles

Sep 6, 2006, 6:34 PM
Coulda just googled it...

Google really does work wonders in todays society.
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dangparts

Sep 6, 2006, 6:52 PM
i didn't have internet at my girlfriends house (its her phone i will never own a moto again) but i know they didn't have it from my old v600
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