to show for

them, not even a descent phone! Still want your ONE CENT gift? Naaaaah.
#2. The Average Mobile Purchase You Can Make - "CARRIER UNLOCKED MOBILES"

Ok, you smartened up and stopped your Sunday's newspaper's clippings. You swore to

yourself, your wife, kids, parrots, dogs and everyone else and their grandmother that you

would never again sign that darn Sprint agreement again just to get that great looking free

phone! You do some reading on the internet and find that the way out of your wireless

misery is to buy an unlocked mobile. Good that is a great revelation, one you should be

proud of...but wait... you find a site like Celluloco.com only to get more confused by

terms like OEM, factory unlocked....Mother of Christ you say, what to do now?

Understanding the right terminology is key to everything. Whenever you visit any site that

offers you an unlocked GSM mobile for sale, the first question in my mind that should ring

a bell is whether that is a CARRIER OR FACTORY UNLOCKED mobile they are offering you. Most

sites offer the first, CARRIER UNLOCKED. This mobile has been unlocked "in-house" style,

often by pirated software that most likely will even void your warranty on that mobile...

Another drawback is that they will ALWAYS REMAIN HARDLOCKED IN THEIR DATA PORTION which is

something 99% of all sites trading GSM never readily disclose to you. No matter if you

enter the correct IP settings of your provider of choice for browser log in via WAP or via

GPRS, it will always try to connect via T-Zones in case of T-Mobile Carrier Unlocked phone,

via mLife in case of an AT&T Carrier Unlocked phone, well you get the picture! A good

advice to avoid all of these problems would be to always search FACTORY UNLOCKED

alternative to whatever model of phone you have found as CARRIER UNLOCKED. .. .. ...

PLEASE HELP. CAN GENERIC MOTO FIRMWARE FLASH SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS?? It's too expensive buying from there, 500 USD!

This part is not true in regards to the MPx200. It is true if you're trying to go between SprintPCS and Verizon. They not only sell carrier locked devices but their data services are not compatible. Between GSM carriers that offer GPRS then its not true. If you have an Edge phone and you're on AT&T and the phone does not have GPRS as well then you won't be able to go to another GSM carrier but these are hardware issues and not software.

There are occasionally differences between the devices offered by each carrier but very rarely are these problems more then simply a software fix. It is just too expensive to run multiple versions of each product. Though it does seem that AT&T may have ponied up the extra cash in at least some cases to have this done to the MPx200.

I am using the non-flashed original AT&T ROM phone on T-Mobile and I get the free T-Zones service.