EVO in foreign countries.

[duckwars]

I was wondering how the EVO would do when traveling. I know that generally Europe uses GSM and Asia uses CDMA, and that the EVO will be CDMA.

I may just be in South Korea in about a years time, and I will probably have my EVO still, and I was wondering if I would be able to run it there using a Korean service so I wouldn't have to pay astronomical roaming fees.

I'm kind of thinking about buying the EVO with NO contract, meaning no subsidy, just because I'm tired of getting locked up for 2 years, and there is a good chance I may just not be in the US after a year.

Also, South Korea has had WiMax for a while now, and I know that is what sprint uses, so I'm hoping this will also make the phone a good candidate for taking abroad.

Actually, the ideal situation (if I could pull this off in America too) would be to just get an unlimited data plan (no voice plan) and just use skype to call and recieve calls/texts. Skype itself is totally capable of such things, I'm just not sure about the Skype features in Android.

I think it's been every young nerds dream to ditch the voice plan in favor of VoIP only =)

 

[Andrew Ruffolo]

Skype on Android is limited to Verizon... sorry :/

As for whether it will work in South Korea. You can always call Sprint Customer Support and talk to someone and see if it is one of the 40 countries it would work in. You'd have to get a Sprint plan somehow as they aren't "unlocked" like GSM phones. Metro POS (really PCS) can flash SOME to their network, so I don't know if there is something like that in Asia that can do it.

 

[dkotoric]

hmm don't know about asia but I know my sprint phone worked in jamaica when I was there.

 

[flyawaymike]

hmm don't know about asia but I know my sprint phone worked in jamaica when I was there.

you have an EVO?

 

[letsgoflyers81]

you have an EVO?

He said his Sprint phone, not EVO. Assuming his phone isn't a CDMA/GSM world phone, then it would operate on the same frequencies as the EVO and should work in the same places.

 

[dkotoric]

yes my phone was just a regular cdma phone I think at that time it was the HTC Touch Diamond