fiestakidda
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Registered: 23rd Oct 02
Location: Darlington (Come On Boro)
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Can they be unlocked at all of so anyone know where will do it??
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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A guy at Wycombe market tried to do my mates, he said it would work... Turned out the phones were stolen  hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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unlocked to what network though? the only main 3g network so far is 3
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fiestakidda
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Registered: 23rd Oct 02
Location: Darlington (Come On Boro)
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Just unlock the phone completely so it works any network
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PaulW
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
Location: Atherton, Greater Manchester
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3g phones will only work on a 3g-enabled network. My brother has a demonstration phone from his work, which is unlocked to networks, but when a sim card from say a regular GSM phone is put in, it just displays invalid carrier. The 3G cards from 3 and VodaFone so far work fine in the phone though.
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fiestakidda
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Registered: 23rd Oct 02
Location: Darlington (Come On Boro)
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It's weird cos i have a 3g phone with no sim off a friend today and i'm on O2 now when he got his nokia 3g phone i put my o2 sim in that and it worked fine which made me think it was ok. Now i'm gutted cos i got this phone i can't use
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BlueCorsa
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Registered: 14th Jan 04
Location: Midlands Drives: MB SLK250 CDI
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You can unlock the Nokia and Motorola 3G phones. Not the NEC ones and I don't think you can unlock the LG one either.
If you try and use an unlocked 3G phone with an Orange/Vodafone/O2/T-Mobile 2G SIM in an area which has that network's 3G network in test, then you will get invalid carrier/sim card registration failed or similar message - because the SIM will try and register to the network but then get chucked off (because the test 3G networks are closed to normal subscribers).
Unless the phone has an option on it to lock it to 2G only (which the Nokia 7600 has, but I think the option is disabled by Three on phones distributed by them - for subsidy protection).
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Munchie
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Registered: 17th Jul 01
Location: I swap goats for mobile phones
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can only unlock the older motorola fones
can unlock the 7600 3G fone to work on all networks but this nokia is not a TRUE 3G fone
3G is a different voltage chip/sim
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BlueCorsa
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Registered: 14th Jan 04
Location: Midlands Drives: MB SLK250 CDI
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You can unlock the Motorola 3G phones - I had a Motorola A830 which I had unlocked, uses the same codes as the standard moto phones.
All the 3G dual mode UMTS/GSM phones have to be compatible with 2G (3 volt) & 3G SIMs.
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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I'll get 3G when Orange do it 
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fiestakidda
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Registered: 23rd Oct 02
Location: Darlington (Come On Boro)
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Does anyone know where to get a 3g sim from then??
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Munchie
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Registered: 17th Jul 01
Location: I swap goats for mobile phones
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ebay? im sure i can prob get u an old 1 that 1 of me mates dont use lol
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