Buried in my previous explanation is the note that the phone will have
to be unlocked in order for the "foreign" SIM to work. Cingular allowed
me to unlock my 650 when I told them why I wanted it -- not to leave the
company, but to get cheaper rates in Europe. They seemed to understand
that thinking.
As for an unlocked, unbranded 680 available from Palm -- it's still
listed on their web site
(http://www.palm.com/us/products/smartphones/treo680/).
That's where I bought mine. (On a two-year contract, the Cingular
version, with the $200 rebate, would have cost me $280 more than the one
I bought from Palm.) I popped in the SIM from my 650, and it works just
fine.
Don Ferguson wrote:
> locked to Cingular and whether they'll let you unlock it, given your
> status as a new customer. In months (years?) past I recall discussion
> about them making one wait until one has been a customer for some period
> of time before allowing the phone to be unlocked. No direct experience
> here, but something to watch for, I guess! Unless you got an unlocked
> 680. I've paid so little attention to the 680 (never would switch to
> The New AT&T) that I don't know if an unlocked one is available direct
> from Palm.--
>
/"Thirty-five million deaths leave an empty place at only one family
table." /
(News commentator Eric Severied in a radio essay on the 25th
anniversary of the start of World War Two. 8/31/64)
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