Sprint Android Worldphone

[marlinspike]

Hello,

I'm happy with my Sprint service, and would like to get an Android phone from there -- one of my major criteria is that it must be a World-Phone, capable of being used in Europe and Asia.

Any idea when Sprint may introduce an Android World-Phone?

Thanks.

 

[ari-free]

I heard that Samsung Epic will have a sim slot.

 

[Bitbang3r]

If it does, it would likely be a CSIM slot (CSIM = R-UIM's successor... a superset of GSM SIM, and optional subset of UMTS USIM). All that means in terms of global roaming is that if Sprint gives us our Epic4G phones with a CSIM in them, you MIGHT able to use your CSIM in a GSM phone in a foreign country to make voice calls, send/receive text messages, and use GPRS (but not UMTS... that requires a USIM, which a Sprint CSIM *could*, but probably *wouldn't* be), have that phone ring when someone calls your Sprint number, and get raped by the roaming charges.

The immediate advantage of having a CSIM slot in the Epic4G would be the ability to buy a second one to use for kernel development purposes or experimentation, and switch between them at will without having to pay Sprint ~$20/month for a second line/number sharing the same minute pool. Though knowing Sprint, if there's a way for them to semi-immutably associate a specific CSIM card with a specific phone and make the whole thing moot, I'm sure they'll find a way to do it.