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Nextel does have sim cards, so does boost. . . . .
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Posted by: ~~Tito~~

I unlocked my iPhone and then asked for my uncles phone to see if it had a simcard and sure enough it did, it was boost sim inside a nextel phone and it didnt work sadly neither did my aunts T-Mobile sim. . . Nextel does have sim cards and the guides should be updated so people can use nextel sims in their iphone and bost sims. Maybe a program can be used for that walkie-talkie thing too.

Sprint on the other hand isnt nextel. Nextel and sprint are two different companies, sprint bought them and has them under their rules but the both operate the same as the did before. Unless the sim cards some how only connect to CMDA(or what ever its called).

Posted by: CyniKal.Mindset

ummm...yea....those arent gonna work ever

Posted by: ~~Tito~~

Why not? I dont know why the tmobile sim wont work, but why shouldnt the nextel and boost sims work?

Posted by: CyniKal.Mindset

cuz they are used for the ptt network or something...i believe the actual phone calls are handled by the cdma modem in the phone not the gsm one

Posted by: ranova

the iPhone is a GSM phone. Boost and nextel are not on the GSM network

Posted by: ~~Tito~~

Ah, I see. Then how do they activate it? Sim swap or the have to activate it by store.

Posted by: klaze-mot

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Originally Posted by ~~Tito~~

Ah, I see. Then how do they activate it? Sim swap or the have to activate it by store.

No. They just don't.

Don't you know what CDMA and GSM is?

Posted by: ~~Tito~~

Yes I do, what confuses me is the sim card in them. CDMA, was a communications technology based on something from WWII. I forgot what GSM was based on. Also, they just dont what?? GSM is awesome becuase you only have to activate it once and you could use the sim card with any GSM phone compatible with your network.

Posted by: A42887

Doesn't anyone know what iDen is? Nextel is neither CDMA or GSM. Its iDen, which is a transformation of TDMA (which GSM is based off of) with a type of SIM card added. There are new hybrid phones which use CDMA for voice and iDen for PTT, but even then, the SIM card is ONLY for the iDen radio. A Nextel SIM card will never work. CDMA phones can have SIM cards too (actually called R-UIM) but US carriers don't go for it. Take the back off of most CDMA Nokias, and you will generally find a R-UIM slot (which is the same thing as a SIM card but for CDMA).

Posted by: ~~Tito~~

Oh. Thanks for clearing it for me.

Posted by: Hallandaleboy

Aren't Nextel and Boost on the iDEN network? Or is that something different?

Posted by: wanga

Boost is just the name for pre-paid nextel service, so yes Boost and NEXTEL's PTT is handled on iDEN and voice/data is handled by Sprint's CDMA network.

Posted by: A42887

Not yet its not. That is the future transition plan, but for now, Boost is all iDen (except in Boost Unlimited markets where it is all CDMA). They are supposed to be bringing in hybrid phones to do Voice-CDMA/PTT-iDen, but it hasn't happened yet. Nextel has some hybrid phones out, but 95% of the Nextel customers are also all iDen.