Gadgetory

hi this is Steve Scarlett is from pocketnow.com and today we're going to play around with the GSM feature in the verizon HTC ozone phone which is verizon's a global phone and has both cdma and gsm capability so the first thing we're going to do is actually go into the settings and see if we can use the GSM feature so we'll go to networks here see the guy went too far so we'll go to the phone and then into networks and you can see you've got the global operations or gsm only or cdma only so let's try gsm only and it's got currently in the unit a verizon vodafone CD sm you can see we went to the signal strength went back to 0 so now it's searching so if we go back into phone into networks you'll see we're searching and obviously i've tried this before the video just to see what would happen and since we're here in the US and there doesn't seem to be any roaming agreements between verizon and AT&T or tmobile we end up not finding a network which is interesting because I would have thought they might add a minimum provide 911 service but that is not even provided in the US are at least in the area where I'm at in a gsm-only area i'm not sure what would happen so it's still searching and it will fail at some point and we get the ! up at the corner telling us basically that it's failed so i go back here i'm going to done there's the air or the setting could not be saved essentially there's no surface and it says basically no service of you so if we go in and i have happen have an ATT sim card which has a valid account associated with it it's really basically out of my iphone it should work so we will power off the phone here and open it up get the battery out always a little tricky but there's a little tab here at the bottom should be able to get it up there go put in the TNT sip card put the battery back in put the cover on make sure everything's secure and then let's power the phone back on so you've got the HTC logo and then the verizon logo will come on in the windows mobile 6.1 now you know verizon has probably locked this phone to their verizon Vodafone cards so the odds of it working are slim to none but I thought it'd be an interesting exercise to try and if we could unlock the phone the GSM side of the phone this could be a quite an interesting device so there's the message the sim card is not valid please insert verizon sim card device will default to cdma mode so this is the location disclosure that basically tells you that this phone has a GPS chip with the location on so that the location information is sent via the phone will say ok but you see it defaulted directly to see en paix mode and it's verizon wireless so let's fire the phone back off and they click put the right and carnage back in so interesting experiment I'd love to see how it works overseas but if this phone if you could actually use gsm or cdma in the US then you have no reason to be out of range ever because i think between the GSM network into the cdma network you're pretty well covered in the u.s. it's just too bad we can't use on this phone and it's obviously for competitive reasons a verizon has locked it to their the GSM networks that they have agreements with and they want you to use their sim card my next video we'll be testing the GPS and we'll see how well it works with microsoft's bing windows mobile application