roadrunner9501
Lurker
Straight Talk does not offer AT&T sim cards anymore, only T-Mobile, unfortunatly....i would prefer to get my hands on a Verizon sim for Straight Talk
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Straight Talk does not offer AT&T sim cards anymore, only T-Mobile, unfortunatly....i would prefer to get my hands on a Verizon sim for Straight Talk
roadrunner9501
Lurker
but that wastes money on a phone that will not be used
new optimus
Android Expert
Verizon is a cdma network, they dont do sim cards, for them you need a complete phone as the phone itself has the network information.
And unfortunately very few verizon phones can be brought to straight talk, and they only offer very low class phones on verizon network.
bjacks12
Android Expert
They can be had for roughly $50. That's about the cost of an AT&T SIM card on e-Bay, but with the certainty of getting one that's not a fraud. I would keep it and use it when I'm going somewhere that I don't want to take my Nexus(like the beach, offroading, etc).
Yup, when I converted my parents to ST last year, my mom was adamant about sticking to the Verizon side, and even bought a used Motorola Droid on evilbay. She was pretty irritated at me when she finally realized that you have to buy a phone FROM straight talk to use VZW. She ended up with a Samsung Proclaim. It's fine for her, but I would sooner disembowel myself than use it.
Now you can get the iPhones if you dislike freedom and love spending $$$.
jhawkkw
Chinchillin'
But I think the iPhone on ST uses Sprint's towers instead of Verizon's. I'd have to look it up though.
jhawkkw
Chinchillin'
Yep, it is Verizon's network. Though it appears that you can't use the LTE network so you're stuck on slow ED-VO 3g.
new optimus
Android Expert
I thought it was sprint as well, did they change or was it android smart phones (except the proclaim and optimus zip) on sprint only?
by the way I know exactly what you mean about the proclaim, my dad used verizon for the coverage (truck driver based in iowa) and I set it up for him, piece of crap. with the problems we decided to switch to att and hope coverage is good enough.
Well net 10 any way
bjacks12
Android Expert
ST branded smartphones used to operate only on Sprint until roughly a year ago. There's been a huge shift towards Verizon. My mom has the Samsung Galaxy Proclaim which runs on VZW. There are a few LG phones and the ST iPhone as well. The SIII is on Sprint though(wtf?) Of course they would offer LTE on the network that doesn't really have it.
The next time you are in the electronics section at Wally World, look at the ST phones. In the lower left corner of the box, it will say either:
CDMA-V: Verizon smartphone
CDMA-S: Sprint smartphone
CDMA: Dumbphone that runs on VZW+Sprint
GSM-A: AT&T smartphone
GSM-T: T-Mobile smartphone
GSM: Dumbphone that runs on ATT & T-Mobile.
There is a lot of CDMA-V at this point. With the exception of the Nokia E71, there are probably no more GSM-A's in stock. They used to have the SII.
The next time you are in the electronics section at Wally World, look at the ST phones. In the lower left corner of the box, it will say either:
CDMA-V: Verizon smartphone
CDMA-S: Sprint smartphone
CDMA: Dumbphone that runs on VZW+Sprint
GSM-A: AT&T smartphone
GSM-T: T-Mobile smartphone
GSM: Dumbphone that runs on ATT & T-Mobile.
There is a lot of CDMA-V at this point. With the exception of the Nokia E71, there are probably no more GSM-A's in stock. They used to have the SII.