IBM/BellSouth SIMON PDA/cell phone
I am trying to find out if there is any service in the U.S. that would support an old SIMON. I am not cell phone savvy, but do know that because SIMON does not make use of a SIM card it will only run on non-GSM networks (I think)
Are there any such networks anywhere in the U.S.?
I have tried to get anyone at Cingular (used to be BellSouth) to find this out for me, but no one seems to know-- one person sent me to AT&T whom they have acquired-- AT&T told me they are not taking new accounts (????) presumably, their service could have supported a SIMON?
I further know that a 2001 document I found gives the network to be used for SIMON as, "CDMA Digital, AMPS, Analog"
You are my last hope.
Are there any such networks anywhere in the U.S.?
I have tried to get anyone at Cingular (used to be BellSouth) to find this out for me, but no one seems to know-- one person sent me to AT&T whom they have acquired-- AT&T told me they are not taking new accounts (????) presumably, their service could have supported a SIMON?
I further know that a 2001 document I found gives the network to be used for SIMON as, "CDMA Digital, AMPS, Analog"
You are my last hope.
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Companies like Verizon and Sprint use CDMA, but I doubt you are going to be able to use that old phone on their network. Could always give em a call, though.
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âšī¸ I actually had to research what the heck a SIMON was. Once I did, I'm afraid the answer would be a "no". The specs I looked at does not indicate what the cellular frequencies are, but being it's "circa 1994", I'm betting it was the old AMPS spectrum. CDMA ( as we currently know it) was a bit in it's infancy back then also. I could not even speculate as to why the documentation you have states that it would run in CDMA Digital. (If it DOES operate in that spectrum, than you are regulated to Sprint or Verizon, and I can tell you as a former VZW tech it will NOT be compatible. But stranger things have happened!)
I will tell you what I told customers at VZW when they came in with their ailing Motorola StarTac's: "I am very sorry but this is...
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I will tell you what I told customers at VZW when they came in with their ailing Motorola StarTac's: "I am very sorry but this is...
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SIMON was that thing with the colored flashing lights that you had to press in the same order they beeped and flashed at you. I didn't know it was a phone though. đ
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