Unlocked phone choices in a budget ?

You can even get a new quadband in that price range if you go the ebay route. The V551/557 is a good one. If you are sure you would not be using it outside NA, then you can spend less than that and get the features you mentioned.

See ebay search.

http://search.ebay.com/search/searc...from=R8&satitle=unlocked+gsm+phone&category0=

 

go to

www.bargainoffers.com

they have every gsm phone company pretty much and a lot of phones for good prices.
I bought my phone there and yea. Just to warn you, a lot of the phones do not work on cingular's 850mhz network(the site tells you what networks and mhz the each phone uses) and cingular uses 850 mhz all over the place.

 

Just about any Nokia is a good phone as long as it has the 850/1900 bands.
It really depends on what your looking for, the 3595, 3220, 6800/20 are good Nokia's that are older and cost less then the newer Nokia's.

As for Motorola, Mr camp is correct the V551, 557, 600, 635 phones are very good models.
Remember when buying off Ebay, make sure the seller has a 98+ rating and read all of the feedback on the seller.

 

I agree. The V551/V557 is a fine model, has bluetooth, and works well in low signal areas. If you re-up w/ Cingular for 2 years you can get one for free, and then spend $20 to unlock it. Otherwise you can buy one on Ebay for under $100.

-Jay

 

Yes in order to get the V557 for free you would have to migrate over to their plan, which means you would loose the benefits of your current Blue plan.

So depending on what plan you currently have it's most likely not worth switching over yet, especially since us Blue customers did end up with better plans prior to the merger, including more minutes & free incoming SMS.

So unless they have a plan that is equal to or close to what you have now or need, I would go shopping for an unlocked phone.

The biggest benefit for migrating over right now would be the rollover minutes, and hopefully when they force us to migrate over they will give us some incentives to ease the pain. :lmao:

 

Uzee, A cingular locked phone will ONLY take cingular's sim. Unlocking your phone (via 3rd party or by getting the code from cingular) means your phone is lock-free. So, you can put any provider's sim card in it. You can take it to tmobile and use it there. Or say you travel internationally, you can just buy local prepaid sims and put it in your phone.