Travel The World With Sprint’s Samsung IP-830w
While Sprint has always targeted business customers, it’s been at a disadvantage for the world travellers, because Sprint uses CDMA technology. Most of the rest of the world’s carriers use GSM (so do U.S. carriers T-Mobile and Cingular).
Sprint’s new Samsung IP-830w will go after those business power users - by providing service on both GSM and CDMA. The phone will come complete with a GSM SIM card provisioned for overseas roaming. While you’re in the States, you’ll have Sprint’s CDMA plus EV-DO service, and Windows Mobile 5 PDA capabilities everywhere. A full QWERTY keyboard hides under the phone’s slick slider, and its expansion slot for SD memory will give you plenty of room for business files and addresses.
Expect a high-end price on this one - around $600 with a 2 year commitment from Sprint, when it becomes available some time next month.
[via Mobile Whack]
October 14th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
I am a Sprint customer and will like to take my IP 830W cell phone to Ghana. Can the SIM card in this Samsong IP 830W be changed to Foreign GSM provier SIM card without paying Sprint roaming charges? Will the phone still function properly when the SIm card is changed? Thank you very much. I.b
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:54 am
I live in lebanon and I have bring the IP-830w to lebanon but I couldn’t talk with phone cz it needed a code to opened so I took the phone to a person who had opened it to me and in my opinion it’s a great phone and no one in lebanon has a phone lik I have