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hello im thinking of buy galaxy tab 8.9 but my question is can i make a phone calls with a sim card

No. It is WiFi only. No calls. I've used Tango on it and made video calls, and you can use Skype on it. But you can't make traditional cellular phone calls (as best as I can explain). There's no place for you to put a sim card.
 
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No. It is WiFi only... ...There's no place for you to put a sim card.
There are 2(at least) versions: It's true that the P7310 is WiFi only, but the P7300 is WiFi & 3G.

As for whether it'll handle calls is another question, and one I'm looking for an answer to too.

It can send & receive SMS text messages, and I believe it's capable of calls too, but it lack a phone 'app'. Calls can apparently be instigated by choosing the call option from a contact; but that doesn't help if you want to call somebody ad hoc that isn't already a contact, and I don't know if/how it handles incoming calls???

Anybody with a P7300 care to enlighten us?
 
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There are 2(at least) versions: It's true that the P7310 is WiFi only, but the P7300 is WiFi & 3G.

As for whether it'll handle calls is another question, and one I'm looking for an answer to too.

It can send & receive SMS text messages, and I believe it's capable of calls too, but it lack a phone 'app'. Calls can apparently be instigated by choosing the call option from a contact; but that doesn't help if you want to call somebody ad hoc that isn't already a contact, and I don't know if/how it handles incoming calls???

Anybody with a P7300 care to enlighten us?

Tried calling my P7300 but it wouldn't push through, there's no option to call out as well. One more thing I noticed is that it will only accept 128k Sim and doesnt read Sim card lower than that

So far, I am enjoying this Tab

HTH
 
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