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12:40 pm
Is it possible to use a different phone than the ones 7-11 have? I dont really like their selection and their phones are really cheap...
1:30 pm
Yes, as long as you have an unlocked phone that uses the 850/1900mhz bands, you can use your 7-11 sim in it.
8:28 pm
Any unlocked phone as well as any Rogers locked phone will work with a SO SIM as well. Fido phones will not though because they are usually locked.
4:38 pm
Are there SIM cards in phones you get from 711's selection?
9:18 pm
Douglas said:
Are there SIM cards in phones you get from 711's selection?
7-11 Speakout Wireless uses the Rogers network, which is GSM. GSM uses sim cards. I would suggest doing lots of reading on the official 7-11 site:
Also read the home page on this site.
5:08 pm
Yes, although the sim cards come under different brands/providers (Rogers/At&T/T-Mobile) etc, a sim card has universal size and shape. That way you can remove one provider's sim, and put in another's.
6:47 pm
Do you know which types of phones I'll be able to use with a SIM card?
7:00 pm
Any GSM phone can use a SIM card. Rogers and Fido (and the companies that use their service such as Speakout and PetroCanada) use GSM. Bell and Telus (and the companies that use their service such as Koodo, Solo, President's Choice, Virgin) use a different technology.
HOWEVER, GSM phones are sometimes locked to the company that you bought it from, i.e. if you bought a phone from Rogers then the phone can only be used with Roger's SIM cards. Usually you can unlock the phone so it can be used with any SIM card.
NOTE: Phones will recognize a Speakout SIM as a Rogers SIM, so if your phone is locked to Rogers, then you can use it with Speakout.
Also, make sure that you can use the phone in N.America - meaning that the phone uses at least the 2 GSM frequencies in N.America (850 and 1900). Some phone are quad band, so you're fine. Others are tri-band where it may have one or both of the N.American frequencies. I'd suggest that it has both the N.American ones. Some phones only have 2 frequencies, either the 2 N.American ones (850 & 1900) or the 2 European one.
3:20 pm
Do you know where I can find a list of phones of the specific GSM frequencies? And where I can find which phones are compatible with Speakouts SIM card?
3:44 pm
The list would be quite long, especially if it includes discontinued phones. 😉 IMO, the better way to do this is to find the unlocked GSM phone that you like and then check its specs in the manufacturer's website.
4:48 pm
Douglas,
To summarize what I said earlier:
Speakout can use either (1) an unlocked GSM phone or (2) a GSM phone locked to Rogers. So, if your friend has a phone that he/she used to use with Rogers in the past 5 years or so, then it should work with Speakout.
To use a GSM phone in N.America, you will need one with one or both of the N.American GSM frequencies - 850 and 1900 MHz.
Like slomo said - find the phone you want, and see what frequencies it uses and if it is unlocked or locked to Rogers. Simple as that.
5:10 pm
My Rogers locked phone doesn't seem to be working with SO anymore! 🙁 I don't know what happened but this sucks, it says phone restricted if I put the SO Sim in but it works fine without SO sim.
8:38 pm
I found this website of recent phones that may work this Speakouts SIM card:
What do you think about it?
10:28 pm
Douglas,
That is one of my favourite sites. GSMarena is the site that made me decide on which phones to get. Here's another one:
8:17 am
For more GSM info, especially prepaid plans around the world see http://www.prepaidgsm.net/
To buy unlocked, quadband GSM phones see http://www.puremobile.ca/
4:57 pm
Would all the phones http://www.puremobile.ca/ be compatible with 7-11's SIM card?
