Cell Phone Question...........

[Juicy05]

OKay so i have the verizon service well my friend is planning on getting a new phone and he said hed sell me his cheap! Hes the type of guy that gets a new phone just cuz its the newer version........ But he has a sprint so what im curious about is could i switch this phone over to my verizon service it doesnt run off a sim card nor does my verizon any knowledge on this would rock ! thanks guys and gals!

[90civicracer]

Just try going to the cell phone place and asking them.

[Juicy05]

Wow that would work if it wasnt 4:14 in the AM

[clawhammer]

Does it have a SIM card or not? If yes, then just switch them and try it out. I'm guessing it won't work unless it has a SIM card.

[CivicSpoon]

No it won't work. You have to buy the phone from the carrier you have. the only exceptions are the GSM phones (AT&T, Cingular, and T-Mobile). Sprint and Verizon are both CDMA, but they're just different in the technology they use in their phones connectivity. I worked for Cingular twice back before and when they just switched to GSM (here in NY, they had it down in the southern states before it was up here), and I got asked that question all the time. I worked at Best Buy where they sold Cingular, Sprint (the carrier I have my phone from), T-Mobile, and AT&T. And my bro works for AT&T (soon to be Cingular) and my mother works for Verizon; just saying that so people don't think the ex-cingular boy is pulling this info out of his arse

[Onimacus]

verizon doesn't use sim cards

[Juicy05]

yea i know thats why i was askin because i know sprint doesnt either so was curious if the 2 phones were interchangeable thru services

[Onimacus]

call your local mall with a verizon store and just ask
hehe

[Juicy05]

i just did, civicspoon knows his shit!, thanks for the info bro!

[CivicSpoon]

no prob, at least the 2 years I wasted on that deadend job is worth something

[Juicy05]

ha was it that bad? I work at AppleBees its not all that great
Moneys pretty good tho

[CivicSpoon]

I got lied to from the first day I worked there. I was told I would get bonuses for seeling a certain amount of phones, and then a month later I asked about it I was told that my boss never told me that. Worst part of it was that my MOM was my boss at the time. Then I got harassed by the Best Buy managers on a daily basis, because the last people who were there from Cingular lied to customers and then took it out on me. Then they changed bosses on me 2 more times, each one getting worse than the last. The last boss was it, he would tell me I was lying to him about when I worked or left, and threated to cut back my hours and fire me. So I quit right before Thanksgiving last year (right before "Black Friday") he begged me to not leave until after X-mas but they screwed me too many times so I screwed him. I mean the $ was good when I actually had customers to sell to. But it just wasn't worth the problems I had to deal with.