Is this true: I can use a gsm Verizon phone(droid 3) on a CDMA company?
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Someone Im not too familiar with can flash, root and unlock phones. Has references. ANYWAYS, I just wanted to know if what they said is true. I have Cricket Wireless, strictly cdma company, I flashed a Sprint HTC Shift, cdma. I was told by a Cricket employee that they cannot flash gsm phones to their company, cant require a SIM card only cdma phones. So I have a droid 3, and asked this person if they can flash it to Cricket, they said to let them check and said yes they can. I brought up what Cricket told me that its gsm not cdma and my carrier is CDMA only, and they said Verizon is a "one of a kind" especially the droid 3, and that even though its a gsm, the programming is open to coversion to cdma. And I CAN have it flashed to Cricket.. true?
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Answer:
the droid 3 is a dual, GSM & CDMA phone, so it can work on either CDMA or GSM networks.
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Verizon does not market GSM phones. The only two major GSM carriers in the US are AT&T and T-Mobile. If you have a phone from Verizon, it's a CDMA phone. You cannot "convert" a GSM phone to CDMA phone, by the way. There's no programming involved. The hardware is completely different. Cricket is also a CDMA carrier. Verizon, Sprint and a handful of smaller carriers use the same technology. The Droid 3 apparently has both GSM and CDMA hardware built in, but you use one or the other. They don't cross over carriers. The GSM part probably works with AT&T or T-Moble (depending on the frequencies it uses). But on Verizon, Sprint or Cricket, it will use CDMA.
Yes, the phone is a dual GSM/CDMA phone and can be both flashed and unlocked.
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