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DUAL SIMM CARD CAPABILITY and WORLDFONE QUAD-BAND CAPABILITY. This is the crux of the biscuit (as Frank Zappa once said). Multiple SIMM-card quad-band world-phones (2 or more SIMM cards per phone AND cover the North American and Pan-Asian GSM bands) are what ALL the manufacturers (RIM, Apple, Nokia, Ericson, Motorola, etc.) PURPOSELY FAIL TO ADDRESS because they are under pressure from the service providers (AT&T, Verizon, etc, etc.) NOT TO OFFER THESE IN THE NORTH AMERICAN MARKET. The reason is twofold. First, for a phone to hold multiple SIMM chips simultaneously, it must inherently be UNLOCKED (where SIMM cards from any multiple providers can be inserted into the same phone simultaneously). Second, the big service providers don't mind you having a quad-band worldphone, as long as they can bill you BIG $ for international roaming in foreign countries, they cannot milk you like this if you have a local SIMM card installed for that foreign country (ie: use the foreign SIMM card telephone number when making or receiving calls overseas in that particular country). ALL THESE PHONE MANUFACTURERS ARE SOMEHOW IN THE POCKETS OF THE CELLULAR PROVIDERS NOT TO OFFER MULTIPLE SIMM-CARD CAPABLE WORLDBAND PHONES WITHIN THE NORTH AMERICAN MARKET. There is a Chinese company called Jing Cheng that introduced the first integrated Dual SIMM chip worldband phone (model # JC 666s). These were not internet or e-mail capable, but showed the western world what this is all about. Thank our cellular providers AND our phone manufacturers for keeping the wool pulled over our eyes in North America. Such dual SIMM card worldband phones have been available for YEARS in Germany, Australia, China, Japan, etc. IT'S TIME ALL THE PHONE MANUFACTURERS UNDRESS AND SHOW WHOM THEY REALLY HAVE LOYALTY TO (the cellular providers OR their customers).
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I quite simply don't know where to begin. I guess at the beginning would be best. This Community Support Forum is as the name implies, a forum for user to user support. It is not a blogging site. I imagine you made an error and thought you were posting to such a site of which you belong and post your blogs to.
As this is a forum I can only surmise that this is not a blog or a post to assist/support another member but rather a misguided rant.
I am now on my second Blackberry, both of which had a worldwide capability. My first was the Blackberry Storm 9530, the Storm 1. My current Blackberry is the 9550, the Storm 2. Both were locked to my carrier (Verizon). In anticipation of a trip abroad I had the 9530 unlocked by Verizon in order to avail myself of local SIMM cards during my travels. A hospitalization has delayed the trip but prior to departure, Verizon will unlock my 9550. There are any number of sites that will, for a fee, provide an unlock code for you. Pay your money and take your chances. Make sure you choose wisely.
Carriers are generally willing to do this for customers in good standing. This, of course, begs the question of why a Blackberry (or any device) is locked to a specific carrier. I do not know of anyone, who has paid full price for their phone Smart or otherwise. Most device purchases are at steep discounts or rebates predicated on a contractual term of service with the retailer (carrier). This how they recoup the cost of the discount. Having the phone locked prevents someone from availing themselves of a heavily discounted device at a carrier's expense and immediately jumping ship to another carrier. That lock combined with an Early Termination Fee "ETF" is what keeps the latest and greatest devices affordable for the vast majority of us. It is not the best system but it works.
A dual SIMM capability on a phone with neither email or Internet access is well, quaint. It is for lack of a better term, a phone. I am not surprised given the Peoples Republic of China's support of freedom of information, that they have such a restricted device. I want every bell and whistle that RIM can put on their product and with the 9550, that is what I have.
There is no grand conspiracy between the manufacturers and the carriers. Perhaps, you might want to start a telecommunications industry conspiracy blog. Perhaps you could use that wonderful Dual SIMM Chinese device to make posts to it. Oh, that's right, no Internet access on it.
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