Thread: do I need the phone/sprint data to use the wireless on the n900?
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2010-06-16 , 03:38
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Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
Clarification here, since this thread made a nice mess of things:

Sprint uses CDMA, which the N900 is not compatible with. You can only use the N900 on AT&T and T-Mobile in the US.

The device will function without a sim card, but you will not be able to make or receive non-emergency calls, nor will you be able to use data unless you tether it.
ah I should have been clearer...I am on sprint but would move to tmobile (after breaking it to my wife that I snuck the phone behind her back) after she is back from europe in 5 weeks. I see I put sprint data in the title, oops should be tmobile let me fix that...

If I told her my plans now, she might not come back...

so I would use my "dumb" lg phone which only has voice, while learning linux on the n900 should I buy it, for the next few weeks, then switch...
Last edited by extendedping; 2010-06-16 at 03:48.