Chile Forum

I have n old Palm Treo 650 phone without the sim card type connectivity and i am wondering if these trypes of phone can be unblocked and connected to entel here in Chile...its a great old bit of hardware and has never failed me in the past....im even thinking of back vamping to it from my current iphone anyone with an insight help me on this? thanks

Short story No..... its a cdma based phone... i dont even think there was a cdma network anywhere in chile, and i dont even know if any of them are still running..... new zealand and australia both turned off their cdma networks last year..... other than that most of the cdma phones in the world are based in the USA only.... and its also very much hard coded to the network it came from....

ok many thanks for the bad news..i now have a new touch screen paperweight !!

Wedding Photographer wrote:ok many thanks for the bad news..i now have a new touch screen paperweight !!

I feel your pain, i prefer a qwerty keyboard... blackberry or similar!

I just googled "Palm Treo 650" and the first link down after shopping results is a review that mentions GSM versions of the phone, so you might want to verify that. Who was the carrier you bought it from? Usually if you take the battery out, there is some small print around the IMEI that should say what the frequency is. Either it will say GSM or CDMA or at the very least 850/1900 (GSM).

thanks but it is for sure a non sim card phone...i need to tune the sight in my rifle so i am sure i have a job for it in the near future..many thanks

Smartcom (now Claro) had a CDMA network, I remember having a CDMA phone still working in late 2007, under Claro. I think they already terminated that though, but you can ask them to verify.

will do thanks all

Perhaps you could sell it? The older PalmOS devices have a cult following and many are still in demand. eBay and gazelle.com come to mind as possibilities.

Bad news, I called Claro, their CDMA network is only 20% of what it was before and they don't enable new lines with that technology. I was reading about that stuff earlier, found a bit shocking that cdma networks are still rocking in the US, and not as a legacy network but competing even with 4G (of course it's a revised technology, not the same old one, but backwards compatible still)

anyone wanna buy it ? lol

I work for Claro and I was the tech that actually powered down the equipment. I think I did this about 6 or 7 months ago, no more CDMA with us(Claro). Sorry.