12-13-2010, 02:31 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Can I buy an unlocked iphone 4 from the apple store and use it with Wind?
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12-13-2010, 02:35 PM
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bertuzzied
Can I buy an unlocked iphone 4 from the apple store and use it with Wind?
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Negative. Need AWS (UMTS) 1700 band.
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12-13-2010, 02:36 PM
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#23
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SebC
Negative. Need AWS (UMTS) 1700 band.
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Those phones they carry kinda sucks. What good phones would work at Wind?
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12-13-2010, 02:36 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: SW calgary
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Any T-Mobile android phone would work (Of their 3G phones I believe)
The new Nexus S perhaps? Engadget called it the *best* Android phone on the market..(of course you'd need to wait for an unlock...)
Last edited by silentsim; 12-13-2010 at 02:39 PM.
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12-13-2010, 02:38 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bertuzzied
Those phones they carry kinda sucks. What good phones would work at Wind?
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They actually have a lot decent phones; the only exception is not carrying the iPhone.
They have BlackBerry and Android phones. As mentioned above, you can also buy any T-mobile phone and unlock it since T-mobile phones also use 1700 AWS.
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12-13-2010, 02:38 PM
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#26
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by silentsim
Any T-Mobile android phone would work (Of their 3G phones I believe)
The new Nexus S perhaps? Engadget called it the *best* Android phone on the market..
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If I wanted to buy an Android phone, I would definitely go for that.
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12-13-2010, 02:46 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: SW calgary
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upon further research the nexus S will sell for 529$ unlocked and off contract in the states.-->importing this will end up probably a bit cheaper or around the same price as the iphone 4 with shipping, duties etc.
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12-13-2010, 02:48 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: An all-inclusive.
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wrong thread
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12-13-2010, 02:51 PM
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#29
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Unlocked Mobilicity phones will also work on Wind.
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12-13-2010, 02:52 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: SW calgary
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I'd have switched to Wind by now if they had Halifax coverage!
I hate Rogers. 3G gets some brutal speeds here sometimes.
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12-13-2010, 02:54 PM
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#31
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SebC
Unlocked Mobilicity phones will also work on Wind.
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How is the Nexus one? or the Sony Xperia X10?
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12-13-2010, 03:07 PM
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#32
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bertuzzied
How is the Nexus one? or the Sony Xperia X10?
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I've only heard good things about the Google Nexus One.
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12-14-2010, 02:44 PM
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#33
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Now officially advertised on the WIND website:
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12-14-2010, 03:50 PM
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Draft Pick
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Yep, I jumped on this deal. I paid Motorola XT720 for $250 (with $150 on WindTab).
I'm loving this Android phone. I customized the shyte out of this.
It's relatively underpowered at 720MHz cpu compared to the likes of Samsung Galaxy that has 1GHz. In fact, I believe the phone is running at 550MHz out of the box!!! So I overclocked this mofo to 1GHz (and apparently safe up to 1.2GHz but I don't wanna drain the battery)
Anyways, I'm a happy camper so far.
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12-14-2010, 08:52 PM
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Mar 2006
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Thanks to the OP for the heads up on this. I was looking for an excuse to dump Koodo and I had to get in on this deal... picked up the XT720 and I'm totally loving it. Very impressed with Android so far. Wish they had the most up to date Android phones on Wind, but this model runs impressively well.
The one complaint I have is that apparently the UofC is a "Wind Away" zone. You'd think that such a high-traffic area would be covered. Anyone else on Wind noticing similarly spotty coverage?
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12-14-2010, 09:27 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: SW calgary
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When I temporarily used wind I turned off the "Away Zone" by forcing it to use the home network. There are instructions to this on the WIND site. It wants to use the strongest signal, so it probably switched to away. Lock it to the home zone signal and you should get home at U of C
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12-14-2010, 10:08 PM
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#37
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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I have been with Wind for one year and I have no complains at all. I have the 9700 blackberry with no contract. Great service. I highly recommend if you are considering switching to Wind, don't hesitate.
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12-14-2010, 10:14 PM
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#38
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RealtorŪ
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Calgary
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I thought I had a wicked plan for $100 a month with unlimited calling including long distance in canada and the US (not from us to canada though) along with all the bells and whistles and 6 gb of data.
Either way, i guess its not to bad for a iphone plan!
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12-15-2010, 12:25 AM
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#39
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#1 Goaltender
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I talked to a rep today at West ed and she said the next phase is putting up towers a long QE from Edmonton to Calgary
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12-15-2010, 10:50 AM
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#40
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Had an idea!
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Makes you wonder how long it will take before Wind starts putting towers into more rural areas.
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