George wrote:
> But I also recently purchased a new Cingular GoPhone from
> Best Buy for $20 that I was planning to use for Airvoice.
> It's a Motorola C139. I haven't opened the package yet, but
> I assume it has a non-active SIM, a new battery, and a
> charger.
Do NOT assume that you can use the GoPhone with AirVoice. It will almost
certainly NOT work. Cingular is wise to what people are doing with the
low-cost prepaid phones, and is trying to stop it.
> The Wikipedia article on lithium-ion batteries says that
> they lose a percentage of their charge capacity every year,
> even if the battery is unused, so that the age of the
> battery from manufacture is potentially important.
After about two years the capacity begins to decline. After four years,
it should be just about unusable.
> Well, it seems to me that on balance I ought to use the
> GoPhone. Does that sound right, or at least reasonable?
If it can be unlocked. Even though Airvoice uses the Cingular network,
this doesn't mean that the GoPhone will work. It won't even work on the
Cingular postpaid network. The phone is locked to the Cingular prepaid
network.
Locate an unlocking service before you open the phone. The C139 is
apparently not a phone that you can unlock yourself.
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