Cell phones forum: Looking into a RIZR Z3 Unlocked!

Unlocked doesn't mean that a phone can be used with ANY carrier. Unlocked is type of GSM phone. Sprint is not a GSM carrier. It is CDMA. So, you wont be able to use a rizr on sprint but you could but it from t-mobile and use it on a pre-paid account. T-Mobile isnt 3G anyway. 3G is high speed data on a phone. if you plan on buying a rizr, buy straight from t-mobile or ebay. Since you can get an unlocked rizr, you can use it on AT&T.
hAVE you seen the billboards? AT&T has the fewest dropped calls, supposedly...

I usually dont show my young side on these forums but i might be able to get through to you if I do. Aiight man, youre gonna go with sprint fa sho right? if so, you gotta get a phone that sprint carries. you caint be takin other phones with different technologies and usin dem on other networks. aint gonna work. ya feel me? i know about the rokr z6 but not too familiar with da z6m. i dunno wut carrier its gonna release on. CDMA phones hafta match technology and carrier frequency. you want a tight phone, gonna have to go on the carrier that its compatible with. metro is weak bro. stay with sprint at least, they are high rated. if you like tha rizr so much, just go with a gsm carrier. im thinkin rokr z6m may be too high end for metro. stay with the respectable carriers..knawm sayin?
good luck

Hey gray this is confusing but hopefully this will help you. Basically if you want to use Sprint or Verizon which both use CDMA networks you will have to buy a phone directly from them. Both sprint and verizon have all features for phones on their networks locked down and even use their own phone OS. If you go to them with one you bought somewhere else for CDMA they most likely will not activate it for you to use unless it is branded as a sprint phone (or verizon if you go to them).

Your only other option is a GSM phone which AT&T and Tmobile both operate GSM networks. You could buy an unlocked rizr on ebay and go buy a pay-as-you-go plan from AT&T or Tmobile and they will give you a sim card. You then just put the sim card into your phone and your off. Your rizr will then work and you won't need any contracts.

Yea that sucks but that is just how it works.

Pops does not want an extra bill coming to the house from a separate cell phone service(he has contract with sprint) EVEN IF I PAY FOR IT because since im only 17 I can't have the contract in my name and he does not want to deal with that. So I am VERY limited atm.

after looking at the RAZR2 that looks like what I will get. seems to have all I need in it. Thanks alot!

One question about the RAZR2....up to how much extra MicroSD memory can I put in this baby?

sadly the phone is gonna be $250 with sprint contract!!! I'm sorry I just don't think that this enhanced razr...although nice deserves a $250 buck price tag. ($300 with AT&T) I guess only time will tell.

Yet and still it sucks so much that I can't have a 2.0 megapixel camera/music phone.

I basically wanted a phone with a MP3 player so good that it can be a replacement for a standalone. Also a 2.0 megapixel camera for self portraits and different things alike.

The Rizr z3 and the soon to come rokr really seem to do the job. Hopefully the rokr z6m will coem to sprint and not verizon wireless as they already have a phone either on par with the z6m or possibly better. that phone being the new Chocolate which can hold up to 4gb removeable storage. a 1.3 megapixel camera, but the quality is better than many 2.0 megapixel cameras, and ofcourse it has a sleek design and style of the type phone I want.

Only time will tell. ATM I would say my dream phone is the motorokr Z6m and hoping that it will come to sprint, but like you said it might be a freaking YEAR!

Thanks for all input!

BOTH of my sisters said they will both offer to add lines and that it wont be any burden on him. All they need is for him to give the ok. I just really don't want to be tied down to a company that I don't trust...has no plans I really like...and no phones AT ALL that I like...cept for a razr2 which will cost me a arm and a leg EVEN with the freaking contract...and its not even out yet.

So they said they will both talk to him to try and convince him to get me up with them at tmobile and I really hop it works out.

ATM I have metro and I don't even use it in the daytime...because all my ppls have mins and they start unlimited at 9pm....Like I will when I have tmobile...on top of that...on my sister's line the have 1000 anytime mins...which I know I wont use. So im good.

but since I could possibly be goin wit tmobile....can you alert me on some slider phone options? a good camera..great MP3 player and a slider? or atleast sumthin slick. haha