I have a cell phone that I hate. I want to buy one online. It is new, and unlocked. How do I get it to work once I have it? Take it to the store, and have them turn it on, or just put my sim card in the new phone?

It is just like the phone I just quit using.

Thanks, Tony

 

pop in your sim card and turn the phone on.

I have one I bought in Brunei, it doesn't work well in the US, but works in the rest of the world.
My daughter has a crackberry that she bought online, its an unlocked phone that works fine.

ETA: if you dont have a 3G sim card, I think some of the features wont be available. If you looking for the latest greatest features.

 

Make sure the new phone is GSM and has the US frequencies (they are not the same as Europe). If you have any contacts stored in your current phone's memory, as opposed to the SIM card's memory, see if you can transfer them to the SIM card.

Then all you should have to do is put the SIM card in the new phone.

However, you may run into problems. When I did that with a Cingular SIM card, it would not work. When I used a T-Mobile SIM card, it worked. That was with the same unlocked phone and using the same tower (T-Mobile roaming on AT&T).

Also, some of the "advanced" features on some of the carriers require specific in-phone software to work. I have heard of voice mail notification not quite working right with some unlocked phones on AT&T, for example.

The bottom line seems to be a slight risk that it won't work right.

 

quad band phones will work.
tri bands will work some places depending on the market they were made for.
Japanese market phones dont work anywhere.

 

This phone is the exact phone I had before the one I have now. Of course the didn't have it any more, so I went with a new one, and I hate the thing. Thanks for the help, guys.

Also it is an LG phone.

 

if its like the one you have previously, everyhting should work ok.

this is assuming that you didn't use some of the carrier specific programs.