[Bossman]

If you will be getting a phone here in the US via ebay or not, more likely than not it will have one or both of the US bands. Any triband phone will have at least one of the US bands. A quad-band will obviously have both US and europe bands. The V551/557/v330, V635 are all very good quadband phones that can be had for around $100 on eBay. I (and probably most folks here) bought my phones on eBay.


If you do not want to go the ebay route, you can try any of the other online shops. I googled for unlocked GSM phone see results below. From what I have read, Telestial is a good company. But they are just too expensive. Most of their items are at least double the price they are else where.

It's not that UM is that difficult, but unlike your conventional calling, UM uses a callback mechanism to connect/make calls. It's explained in other threads.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navc...ocked+gsm+phone