Need advice for new cell phone

[mikejet]

Originally Posted by DonRSD

iphone

NO.

iPhone does not support ANY CDMA areas. Your phone will be DEAD in Japan.

I would goto a Verizon store and ask them for options or even a Sprint store. Those two companies are the pioneers in offering Tri-band cells that support both GSM and CDMA.

The problem is that 3g here in the US uses different freq. than in the other countries and it will work here but not there.

I know moto makes a Tri Band cell but it's not very feature rich.

Your best bet would be to have an unlocked GSM phone for US/Europe and when you are in Japan purchase a cell from DoCoMo if you want two feature rich phones.