Denver Gingerich <denver@ossguy.com> writes: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 11:24:35PM +0200, Philip Hands wrote: >> It seems that none of the 3 mobiles that I have with me are willing to >> play in Canada for one reason or another, so I could do with borrowing >> one. > > I'm curious if any of these 3 mobile phones have quad-band GSM > support. If so, then those would work fine in Canada. It's pretty > rare for a phone built in the past 5 years or so to not have quad-band > GSM, though it's possible some parts of the world still don't have a > lot of them. In the absence of any information, I might have made the same assumption, but given that I said that they don't work, it seems a bit odd to do so. The "various reasons" are pretty dull really, but since you insist: 1) The phone I had intended to use is a recently bought, brand new Nokia 105 Dual-SIM (RM-1133) -- which is dual-band, and therefore doesn't work. It has been such a long time since I saw a non-quad band phone that it didn't even occur to me to check. 2) I have two Nokia n900's. One of them has a dodgy aerial that causes it to be unable to stay on the network for more than a few minutes. I of course had intended to bring the other one, but somehow at the point of leaving the house I grabbed the wrong one. Two down, one to go. 3) I have an HTC Desire that I inherited from a friend that I use exclusively for listening to Internet Radio and podcasts via wifi. He's pretty sure it was unlocked when he gave it to me. It was misbehaving in various ways though, so I flashed it using the vendors ROM, and then put Cyanogenmod onto it. Somewhere along the way (or perhaps from the start) it seems that it has acquired a network lock. So, as I said, none of the 3 mobiles that I have with me are willing to play in Canada for one reason or another. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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