Nextel - Boost

It's the same company and the same type of phones, so I don't think you'll have a problem putting your SIM in any Nextel phone. The main principle behind a SIM card is that you must be able to place it in any compatible phone and be able to use your service transparently.

 

Nextel has GSM?

Only GSM phones have SIM Cards.

 

I thought that too, but apparently IDEN uses SIM cards too.

 

thanks for the Info.

 

It will not fry the phone. You can put a boost sim in a nextel phone and it will work fine, but you can't use a nextel sim in a boost phone unless you unlock the boost phone first.

 

I didn't think unlocking was necessary since Boost and Nextel are the same company.

 

Depending on what Boost phone you have and which Nexel phone you are trying to put it in, the phone will make and recieve calls, but the phonebook may not be accessible.


For example if you take a SIM card from an i60 and put it into an i730, you would not be able to save or retreive entries from the phonebook on the SIM card.

 

Boost locks their phones I think because they are cheaper prices for pretty much the same phone. If that makes any sense.

 

I'd figure they'd want to give their contract costumers better deals than pre-paid. Go figure..

 

Well so much for that.

 

The Nextel Does "NOT" need to be unlocked when using a boost sim, Only a Boost phone with a Nextel sim does. He gave you the wrong answer. (probably to make a buck)

 

Depends on the phone I assume, the Nextel i860 I was told will work with a Boost sim but text may not work without a software load. Does this make any sense?

 

i have an i860 and i cant get it to work on boost and im getting mad i put my sim in and it asks for a unlock code and i dont know it and its not the temp i cant figure this out the 000000 security code doesnt work iether if anyone knows anything about how i can get my i860 to work on boost please message me id appreciate it

 

Wow! This thread was dead for almost 3 years and came back!

 

Got my BOOST sim back in April and works great on my i860 Nextel phone, other than text messages that i never use, all funtions seem to work great.

I think text messaging is idiotic, why type with little keys and take 6 times as long to type something when I can direct connect or call them or leave a Voice mail way faster and don't have to read those impossible to decipher shortcuts people use that I think sometimes they don't even know what they mean LOL.

 

iDEN and GSM both use SIMs but if we're lucky iDEN wont be around much longer..........you can put a Boost SIM in a Nextel phone with no problems but if you want to put a Nextel SIM in a Boost phone you would have to unlock the phone

 

I have a Nextel i860 and run a boost sim in it now, it works just fine

 

thats how it should work...........Boost even says so in the Customer FAQs

 

not that it really matters.... but I think iDen is a form of GSM - uses very similar protocols that were "modified" by Motorola

 

Correct, the call setup and processing iDEN uses is based off of and very similar to the GSM protocols.