activating an Nextel i730

yes there are a few great deals running around on these phones. if you buy a Nextel i730 make sure you have the sim card you cannot activate it without your original sim card from when you buy the phone. now dont think you can just switch sim's either you cant there is a gps built inside of the phone so when someone activates the sim it thinks the phone that came with the sim is stolen and you will be red flaged my nextel. beware. You also may not purchase a sim from nextel either to activate in it. and if you switch your sims from an lets say an i90 to the new i730 all the features wont show up on the phones because the software is differrent and will now work on the new phone. just letting ya know some info before you spend money on this phone.

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Thanks for the info, but won't you get red flagged by Nextel when using your old i90 or i95's sim card?

Originally posted by Pekkle
Thanks for the info, but won't you get red flagged by Nextel when using your old i90 or i95's sim card?

if you already have service on a nextel sim card you can just put the sim in the i730. many people have not wanted to upgrade to the new sims. the only downfall will be that not all features will be available with a 32k sim(condor) that are on the 64k sim(falcon).

Cool, I will stay away from the ebay then.. I will just buy one directly from Nextel.. I guess that will be safe..

Originally posted by Pekkle
Cool, I will stay away from the ebay then.. I will just buy one directly from Nextel.. I guess that will be safe..

you can do either. if you don't have service then activate thru nextel a brand new account with the phone you want (cause you can get discounts that way. also check out amazon.com. they have a great deal on the i730s right now). if you do have service and if you don't need 600 contacts and a few other features then you could just try ebay.