AT&T Unlocked Galaxy S3 I747 for Metro/Tmobile

[afroag]

I was gonna buy one off of ebay but before I did that, I wanted to see if anyone has done this and if the S3 works properly on MetroPCS. For those of you that have done this have there been any problems, bad battery life, poor connectivity? Metro's lack of good mid range phones is driving me crazy.

Its between the S3 and HTC One S but the One S doesn't have a microSD for all my music.

 

[Mikessv]

I was gonna buy one off of ebay but before I did that, I wanted to see if anyone has done this and if the S3 works properly on MetroPCS. For those of you that have done this have there been any problems, bad battery life, poor connectivity? Metro's lack of good mid range phones is driving me crazy.

Its between the S3 and HTC One S but the One S doesn't have a microSD for all my music.

Well I have that exact phone and I'm using T-Mobile, which Metro runs off of. They say At&t phones can't use certain frequencies that T-Mobile has such as the 1700 and 2100 network but a lot of places are still using 1900 which At&t uses. To tell the truth it works great for me and I even pulled a 40,000 mbps speed test on full lte.

 

[Mikessv]

Make sure the phone is carrier unlocked though

 

[afroag]

Make sure the phone is carrier unlocked though

according to the ebay listing:
Samsung Galaxy S3 I747 16GB Unlocked GSM Android Cell Phone White | eBay

it is. How can I be 100% sure?

 

[afroag]

Well I have that exact phone and I'm using T-Mobile, which Metro runs off of. They say At&t phones can't use certain frequencies that T-Mobile has such as the 1700 and 2100 network but a lot of places are still using 1900 which At&t uses. To tell the truth it works great for me and I even pulled a 40,000 mbps speed test on full lte.

I am not very family with phone frequencies. Is the 1700 euivalent of 2G or something like that? what part of the country are you in? I mean if the S3 works for you then thats all the confirmation I need right?

How's the battery life? and can you upgrade the phone to 4.3?

 

[Mikessv]

I am not very family with phone frequencies. Is the 1700 euivalent of 2G or something like that? what part of the country are you in? I mean if the S3 works for you then thats all the confirmation I need right?

How's the battery life? and can you upgrade the phone to 4.3?

It just means that T-Mobile use different frequencys on their towers. 1700 and 2100 I believe are lte but like I said I have the same phone and I have lte because they started using 1900 also. I'm in New Jersey and I can't comment on battery life because I'm rooted and running a custom rom.

Yes you can upgrade to 4.3 though I'm running 4.4