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Forums > Living in Kunming > Samsung vs Anycall

It depends on the radio inside the phone. If the phone is advertised as suitable for 3G on China Unicom then yes, it will work in Europe because Europe uses WCDMA/HSPA on 2100Mhz (same as Unicom) and GSM on 900Mhz/1800Mhz (actually China Unicom and China Mobile only use GSM 900 but all GSM radio chips are at least dualband so nothing to worry about there).

If its advertised as suitable for 3G on China Mobile or China Telecom then stay clear.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > How to get the 3G / EDGE / GPRS work?

yeah, it could be China Mobile trying to force people with a 3G package onto TD-SCDMA, hadn't thought of that. A very strange thing for them to do though as surely spreading it amongst 2G/3G will put less strain on either one. And they do specifically advertise that the phones they sell are dual mode (TD-SCDMA/GSM) so they'd be contradicting themselves - not entirely surprising!

I'm surprised to hear that about your iphone, my 3GS selects automatically and I know people with iphone 3G in the UK and it definitely selects 2G at times (most of the UK countryside doesn't have a 3G signal so a phone that didn't automatically choose the best available signal wouldn't be a success). Must be something China-specific. Wouldn't surprise me.

By the way, if you get the China Unicom iphone it isn't the same as the international iphone. You'll get a messed up maps app and no youtube app unless they've corrected this since.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > How to get the 3G / EDGE / GPRS work?

hi laotou, i'd be surprised if that is the case as all WCDMA phones are designed to go to EDGE/GPRS when 3G fails. A WCDMA phone wouldn't even notice a TD-SCDMA signal just like it doesnt notice the CDMA/EVDO signal from China Telecom. That its a 3G sim card wouldn't matter. If the phone can't find what it thinks to be a 3G signal (WCDMA) it will look for 2G. If the package from China Mobile also includes 2G usage (which I think they do) then the phone will fail to find WCDMA (it doesnt even notice TD-SCDMA) and then look for EDGE, if it can't find EDGE it will look for GPRS. If it can't find GPRS it will be voice and SMS only on GSM.

I'm willing to be proven wrong but I'm fairly sure thats how it works. :-)

Having said all that it can't hurt to turn off 3G, infact it may make the phone connect to a network a few milliseconds quicker as it won't look for a WCDMA signal.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Blackberry in Kunming?

pretty sure china unicom apn name is 3gnet rather than 3gwap.

3gwap is for MMS and perhaps 3G phones without proper browsers (WAP only) if such a thing exists?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > How to get the 3G / EDGE / GPRS work?

no, if you're using a WCDMA/GSM (standard 3G/2G) phone you don't need to disable 3G to get 2G, although it can't hurt to do so since you won't be using it - you may save battery and time as it won't bother to look for a 3G signal. However to use 2G only you just need to be away from a 3G (WCDMA) signal and it will default to 2G (EDGE/GPRS). As China Mobile uses TD-SCDMA for 3G you will never be on a 3G signal that your phone recognises so it will always default to 2G. Take it into a China Mobile shop and let them have a look or call them up - you may need to get something activated.

The APN is cmnet.

CMWAP is for older phones that only do WAP browsing. For the full internet, which I'm sure is what you want, its cmnet with no gateways, usernames or any other details - they are all blank I believe.

If its not working take it to a China Mobile shop and get them to sort it.

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Desktop site is looking great.

However the mobile site still doesn't work for webkit browsers such as iphone safari. I believe a lot of android phones also use webkit browsers. Text is just too small. If you could vary the font size depending on the browser that would be great. At the moment I can either view the really tiny text and strain my eyes or zoom in and have to scroll left and right to read every sentence.

Limiting the use of horn doesn't really solve the problem. drivers won't really understand why they aren't allowed to use the horn and will feel the new regulations are arbitary. they need to be taught that the horn is NOT a substitute for the brake nor is reaction a substitute for anticipation.

Basically they need to learn a totally different way of driving.

yeah, I was told once before that because that is the busiest time of the day it is preferable that neither of the 2 drivers gets it than one of them makes money instead of the other.

Of course this is nonsense as they could swap shifts at different times (before and after rush hours) on alternate days.

I hope this works. My wife told me she saw some news interviews with drivers who said that they will simply not stop at all, pretending they didn't see people, instead of stopping and then refusing a fare.

We'll see.

always amused to see the word "solicitor" used by a non-British English speaker. totally different meaning.

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