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Slimmest quadband phone?
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Posted by: DJMaC23

Hi, so I had purchased a samsung x820 but unfortunately it doesn't work very well where I live in MD, so I'm selling it and I want to get another phone to replace my nokia that i'm using now...

i'm interested in something slim and stylish; I don't really care for 3G and wifi and other things because the only purpose for the phone is to make/receive calls. Any recommendations? Has to be able to work on Att's 850 network which will greatly reduce the # of options unfortunately...Thanks!

Posted by: bachviet

The Trace (Samsung T519) is the slimmest quad-band phone that I know of. It is for T-Mobile but you could find unlocked one on eBay.

Posted by: GeminiIII

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Originally Posted by DJMaC23

Hi, so I had purchased a samsung x820 but unfortunately it doesn't work very well where I live in MD, so I'm selling it and I want to get another phone to replace my nokia that i'm using now...

i'm interested in something slim and stylish; I don't really care for 3G and wifi and other things because the only purpose for the phone is to make/receive calls. Any recommendations? Has to be able to work on Att's 850 network which will greatly reduce the # of options unfortunately...Thanks!

unfortunately, i don't know what works for AT&T, but i can suggest some slim, stylish, and quadband phones. they are as follows:
samsung u600
RAZR (not really that thin anymore, relatively speaking)
nokia 6500 classic (not my idea of style, but you may like it)

Posted by: Mark Larson

The Trace is the thinnest quadband phone yet. Even the new Ultra II 5.9 is only triband, probably due to T-Mobile's influence.

Posted by: Heavy Fluid

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Originally Posted by bachviet

The Trace (Samsung T519) is the slimmest quad-band phone that I know of. It is for T-Mobile but you could find unlocked one on eBay.

I was under the impression that this phone could not be unlocked, but I just checked eBay, and there are 3 of them listed. Interesting. When I first saw this phone, I was pretty amazed at how thin it was. If only it didn't have the T-Mobile branding all over it, I might be interested in it.

Posted by: bachviet

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Originally Posted by Heavy Fluid

It's definitely unlockable just like most Samsung GSM phones out there.

Posted by: Heavy Fluid

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Originally Posted by bachviet

It's definitely unlockable just like most Samsung GSM phones out there.

I just thought that I might have read somewhere that it was not unlockable. At one time Target had them on sale big time if you bought it as a PAYG, I should have jumped on it back then. $89 bucks out the door. Not too shabby, all it needed was an unlock. Hence the reason I didn't get one.

Posted by: Mark Larson

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Originally Posted by bachviet

It's definitely unlockable just like most Samsung GSM phones out there.

You can't get the crippled T-Mobile firmware out of it.

Posted by: bachviet

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Originally Posted by Mark Larson

You can't get the crippled T-Mobile firmware out of it.

That's true.