I have T-Mobile currently, and I want a Sidekick. Since I already have a T-Mobile SIM card, do I need to get an unlocked phone, or can I save a lot of money and buy it locked?
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Since you are already on T-Mobile, you wouldn%26#39;t need an unlocked phone. You would just have to switch your sim card over to the Sidekick.
EDIT: They do not have to send you a new sim card. They can just add the data plan(if you do in fact want it) for $20/month. The provisioning for the plan is done over-the-air, so there is no need for a new sim card. It%26#39;s my understanding that although a T-mobile SIM card will allow any unlocked GSM phone to function on their network, the Sidekick uses a private data network (different from the EDGE network) and so in order to use a Sidekick, you need to have a T-mobile Sidekick data plan, and they will have to send you a new SIM. You can verify this by calling their customer service folks, they%26#39;re usually pretty good. I went through a lot of grief with them trying to get my Tom-Tom GPS unit to connect to their GPRS/EDGE data network. Ultimately the best answer we could come up with (after 8 hours on the phone) was that I needed to buy another phone, because of the unique way that the Sidekick connects to the data network. I still wouldn%26#39;t trade my Sidekick III for anything else on the market.
Good luck
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