World Phone Capabilities

[Malachi73]

Ok, I understand that from factory the gsm is locked down so that you cannot use a North American SIM card from AT&T or whatever, but...

Once this thing gets rooted, will there be a way to unlock that so if I travel to Canada or Mexico I can just pop in a local prepaid sim card and go?

I do travel to Mexico and Canada often and would love to be able to do this. Anybody know how this works?

 

[fusksalad]

I would like to know this also. Hopefully the design gets rooted

 

[Malachi73]

Yes, definitely hope it gets rooted. I am looking to purchase one at the end of this month.

 

[nsmoothrider]

I will be calling sprint today to see what I can find out about the SIM card and if it is truly locked of if it's just a setting change. I'll let you know.

 

[loupy]

I'm not sure about Canada or Mexico, but I've used my Design 4G in the UK and Italy with local sim cards and had no issues at all.

 

[chronophilos]

I've gotten confusing and mutually contradictory information on this from various Sprint representatives. I would really like to know if the gsm part of the Design is locked or unlocked for use outside North America. It's nice that it's a world phone but roaming is just a scam, I want to be able to use local SIM cards.