Motorola Droid
Carrier's?
The Droid operates under the same type of network mode as Sprint. Does that mean it can be activated and used by Sprint?
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No, sprint locks their network to ESN's from their offered devices (similar to Verizon)
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If you want a similar phone on the Sprint network go look into the HTC Hero or Samsung Moment. Both are Android phones and the Moment even slides into a QWERTY.
Oh the joys of working for multiple carriers at Best Buy Mobile. ^_^
Oh the joys of working for multiple carriers at Best Buy Mobile. ^_^
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between to two, get the Hero, HTC is already working on getting it updated to 2.0
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I haven't had the chance to play with the Moment much, but I do love the Hero. The Sense UI is fantastic.
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Not in the way you are thinking. The only way to "unlock" a CDMA device is to convince the activating network (in your case, sprint) that the Droid is a phone they offer. Most of the time when you do this, most advanced features (data, email, etc) will not work well.
This might change with open handsets (like the vphone listed on the news release).
This might change with open handsets (like the vphone listed on the news release).
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I thought sprint got sued about locking phones and part of the settlement started allowing other carriers phones on their network a couple years back.
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Why would Sprint allow a phone which they neither sell or support to be activated on its network? The phone is programmed with Verizon PRL, which means it will always roam on Verizon's network above Sprint. I have heard of no such lawsuit and if there were such a thing, it would have no merit. Now there have been rumblings in the past about forcing carriers to allow any compatible device on their network, but all I would do were I Sprint is speed up the Wi-Max roll out and then only produce Wi-Max handsets. It is always funny to me how customers want to spend money in someone else's pocket. I would get this when I was in the biz. "You (all) could activate the iphone on Verizon. You just want to force me to buy one of your phones." I'...
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Sprint got sued because of locking their phones, part of the settlement was that they would provide the lock codes for their phones to customers that requested them and that they would assist customers in activating other carriers phones onto their network.
I dont remember exactly when it was, but I am pretty sure vzw was part of the same suit, but since VZW didnt lock their phones all VZW did was agree to let some regular phones that were made for multiple carriers be activated onto vzw accounts. The VZW requirement is that the phone be on a specific list of settlement handsets, the phone has to be taken into a store, the store ships it to the warehouse, the warehouse flashes the phone with vzw software and loads the esn into the databas...
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I dont remember exactly when it was, but I am pretty sure vzw was part of the same suit, but since VZW didnt lock their phones all VZW did was agree to let some regular phones that were made for multiple carriers be activated onto vzw accounts. The VZW requirement is that the phone be on a specific list of settlement handsets, the phone has to be taken into a store, the store ships it to the warehouse, the warehouse flashes the phone with vzw software and loads the esn into the databas...
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Verizon may have opened up its network, but I have heard nothing of Sprint doing the same.
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