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Q: Do Chinese cellphones work outside China?
Years ago, I was told that cellphones bought in China don't work in other countries (the phone itself, not the SIM). Since I'll be going back to France, and that I'm too lazy to buy a new one, will I be able to just insert the new sim card in my current phone, and rock n roll?
11 years 44 weeks ago in Relationships - Lhasa
They work just fine if you swap out the SIM card. Albeit my only experience with this was with a Sony Ericsson phone. It might be an issue if you have a Chinese brand phone.
Of course this is assuming you bought an unlocked phone here.
If the phone is quad banded it will work. frequency bands: 850 and 1900 MHz, used in Canada and the United States, and the common 900 and 1800 MHz bands.
The 2G GSM standard is a kind of globally implemented ("Works all over the world and in most parts of New Jersey", as PK put it). Might need quadband as mentioned above.
Be careful with 3G capabilities though. Only China Unicom splashes big on imported and expensively licensed equipment to provide the WCDMA service typical in the western world. All other Chinese networks use 3G standards that are somewhat exotic out there.
Samsung Anycall
Works fine in Australia
so did my old Nokia
When i bought it I did ask the question and there were some phones they had that did not work outside China
just lucky I got an honest sales man I guess(sarcasm)
From my experiences it does....wouldn't see what the problem would be. Phones are meant to be universal it's not like you need to use a certain type of plug socket to use it and if you did you could get those universal plug sockets to charge your phone if that is the case.
