Re: Question regarding Verzon cellphones, assistance appreciated...

Archangelus1 wrote: 
Seumas Elphen wrote: >  Thus my suggestion to the person wanting advice still stands. Check

with VZW (or whatever carrier) BEFORE you purchase a phone from a third
party. Make sure that VZW will activate it. The key word here is
compatable (a phone they can program). I've read that some travelers
use a sim-card type phone. That way they can change phone/networks as
they travel and keep their data. YMMV 


You're kinda missing the point of my question. I'm not asking about an
issue of phone/network compatability (and i now know the phone she
wants to buy IS supported by verizon, its called the CDMA SHG-A670 i
think), what i want to know is if there is anything that can be done
should it turn out to be marked as used/lost/stolen by the service
provider after she buys it (which i keep reading happens alot when
buying phones from eBay)...

Ah. Yes, the A670 will work on Verizon -- Verizon sells their own version of the phone -- but there are some features that won't work (in particular, the downloadable apps GetItNow uses are written using a different programming language and different technology than the ones Sprint PCS Vision uses, so you won't be able to download VZW apps to your Sprint phone). On the point of ESNs, I did have a situation, once, where I ended up with a Sprint phone that had been reported stolen. I was lucky. I was able to contact the original owner of the phone, since they were using the same phone number and had simply gotten an insurance replacement. They called and authorized Sprint to release the ESN, after which I could activate it. But it is by no means guaranteed that this will work for everyone. Check the ESN first, with Sprint (or whoever the original carrier is).

As for the GSM SIM-card phones, apparently that isn't an option 

Not with Verizon.

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