Can cingular/anyone tell what model phone your using?

I was wondering if Cingular or anyone for that matter, could tell what model phone you were using by calling you, or if they could in any way at all?

They can tell by looking at your account, if they have the current IMEI/ESN number. If you just switched your sim card into another phone, they can't tell which model you have.

just don't press and hold for 3 second the # sign. by doing this you are sending your info to your provider. this is the only way that they gonna know the model of your phone if you are using the phone when you sign up or using the phone that you buy somewhere else.

Nope, thats a negative, not going to know unless you tell them

what are you talking about!!! this is my own experience. when i sign for t-mo the free phone that i get is nokia 6610. when i get my nokia 9290 i play with it and hold and press the # sign. well nothing happen, when i have trouble with my service i give them a call and they ask what kind of cell phone that im using right now. i said nokia 6610 and they said, nop! what you are using according to our comp is nokia 9290. i was suprised and i think this is invading my privacy.

why don't you try it for your self and see what im talking about. put your sim to the phone that diff from the phone when you sign for your plan. press and hold # sign and give them a call about not having a signal and you will see for your self what i taking about. they know what kind of phone you using by doing this. if you work with t-mo and say this is negative, i think i agree with you.

so I got the free x427m..decent phone, just no options...I have cingular, I want to either move my sim card to a better phone with cingular, or maybe put it in a Verizon SCH-A670? Is this possible? if so, please tell me how, and I will <3 you forever...

You can switch the sim card into a different Cingular phone. However, you can't put it into a Verizon phone because does not use sim cards in their phones.

scott14661 is right. cingular is a gsm, verizon is a cdma.

the # sign thing...maybe that works with t-mobile...i can't say...but it does not do anything with cingular. For a while our computer system used to say what type of phone you were using when we entered in the IMEI (serial) number, but they have since removed that (atleast from our computer system). So ours doesn't flat out tell us anymore what phone you have, but sometimes we (being the reps) can tell just from looking at the formatting of the phones IMEI number. However Cingular can tell just by that serial number...and they use it for their exchange by mail service so they can tell what phone to troubleshoot/replace.

When you buy a phone plan they put the model of phone that you buy on ur account, so when they pull up your account they see what you have, unless you change it without telling them

Its a NEGATIVE

do you work in t-mobile?