I am intrested in getting a P800 for my brother yet he has sprint. I noticed on some ebay auctions, under some unlocked P800s, they list Sprint PCS as a carrier. Will it work smoothly? Are they just wrong?

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the sony brand has yet to make a cdma phone as far as i know
the p800 is a gsm phone
gsm phones can be ulocked to use sim cards from different carriers
sprint and verizon are cdma networks so their phones are locked permently to their network at the carrier not at the phone as the carrier has a database of esn's (serial number like things on yourphone) hat define which phones they support
so to use aphone on sprint you need to buy a sprint branded phone

sorry

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Sprint loads authorized ESN (electronic serial numbers) into their database, phones with ESN's not in the database cannot be activated with Sprint, this is the case even if the phone is a CDMA phone (case in point Verizon-Samsung i700 cannot be activated on Sprints network).

Thankx alot guys, See thats what I though, GSM won't work on CDMA network. But there is this guy on ebay, he got like a cargo of 10 brand new P800 and wants to sell me one. They are unlocked and all, and he is asking 300 USD including shipping and handling. I sent him and email like 5 times asking him if he was sure they would work with sprint. He said like 5 times they definatley would, and even gave me a guerantee and said I could refund for full price if I wanted. I am kind of hard pressed to try, since 300 USD is pretty god damn cheap for a new P800. Ebay has em for about 360 average maybe. So I might just try it, even though Im pretty sure this insistent guy is wrong. I would be able to sell the baby for +300 anywyas, so Ill see...

Thanks though.

There is now way in hell a GSM phone is going to work on a CDMA network, which is what Sprint/Verizon use.

Unless this guy has a few hundred positive feedbacks, and the only thing you want to do is resell the phone on ebay yourself, then I'd stay VERY far away from this deal.

To spicymeatball91: Anyone claiming the SE P800 will work on Sprint might also have a bridge to sell ya, cheap.


SonyEricsson makes many CDMA phones. When I was in Japan 6 weeks ago, I was had an SE Au 5402S (http://www.sonyericsson.co.jp/product/au/a5402s/), on KDDI's CDMA network.

However, SE has not won carrier support in the US and, as a result, they announced this past summer that they would no longer try to market CDMA phones in the US. They continue to sell CDMA phones elsewhere in the world.

The problem is that in the rest of the world, consumers have choice of phone. They can (mostly) buy any CDMA phone and activate it on the (CDMA) carrier they want. It doesn't work that way in the US, where Sprint and Verizon want to dictate what phones they will allow on their networks.

cool i guess what i meant was to release a cdma phone in the us as far as i know but, personally i wish they would along with a good bluetooth pda phone from anyone else

i'm tired of the US being behind asia and europe in the cell phone innovation market, thanks a lot fcc

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