Posted by mada_152
I was wondering witch is the motive that SE doesn't sell it's china/japan/korea phones to other markets like america or europe...? have a look on this site & choose a favorite phone....will U go to china to buy one? that's the question I'm asking....how will I be able to get my SE SO506iC for example?
here's the link to the china & so base market : http://www.sonyericsson.co.jp[....]nload/desktop/index.html#802SE
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Posted by mada_152
does anyone have an answer or another opinion?
Posted by EastCoastStar
they wont work anywhere else
so if u get one and bring it back, it wont work
Posted by amawanqa
@ mada,
As per your similar question in another recent thread regarding Japanese SE phones, the following article should provide you with all the relevant info:
http://www.japan-zone.com/new/mobile_sim1.shtml
Basically, most places outside the countries you mentioned ie. Europe etc. use GSM phones, whereas there is 3 different formats in Japan, namely:
PDC
CDMA
WCDMA
Hope this helps.
Posted by EastCoastStar
japan uses CDMA???? hrm.... we have a CDMA carrier in the US... i wonder if it would work...
Posted by amawanqa
Taken from the article:
Very briefly, there are three mobile phone technologies supported by the major networks within Japan - PDC (Personal Digital Cellular), CDMA (Code Divisional Multiple Access) and WCDMA. DoCoMo, Vodafone and TU-KA support the established PDC, and DoCoMo and Vodafone have also introduced the newer WCDMA, while AU supports CDMA. All three of these technologies are incompatible with each other.
Posted by mada_152
why don't they work?I don't want them for theyr mobil capabilityes....I want them for theyr other functions
Posted by mada_152
anyone?
Posted by EastCoastStar
they dont work becuase... the frequencies are VERY different... as i said somewhere else, its like trying to program a program in HTML, it just wont work. GSM is the 850/900/1800/1900 bands, and CDMA and all the other bands china/japan use are very far from GSM.
Posted by mada_152
that's so uncool cose I guess that I'm not the only one who would like to benefit from the real inventity of the corean company....I like most of that phones...
Posted by EastCoastStar
i really really really really wish we had some of their phones also!! you are not the only one!
i wish we (in the US) had some of the phones you guys have over seas! you guys have alot of cool ones compared to us.
Posted by mada_152
yeah....those models you can tell that they where made by people that have imagination.....none of those models was borring....realy a shame that they(SE) don't create at they'r full capacity...