prepaid phones for China

[pwilliams89]

Originally Posted by Bossman

As others have already advised, get a basic unlocked quadband phone and you are all set. These can be had for $50 or less. Does anyone even sell triband phones these days? Then when you get to China get your sim card and pop it into the phone. How simple can it get!

Hey Bossman, yeah that's what I'm thinking of doing. I want to get as cheap a prepaid as possible. For example, I found a $18 Tracfone online that's quadband. I'm sure I could figure out how to unlock it too. The only thing else I need to be sure of is that it could read Chinese characters. I thought this might be a function of the SIM card (which will be Chinese) but possibly this has to do with the software of the phone? If it depends on the phone, then I might be out of luck cause I'm not sure that the Tracfone would have language capabilities besides English and Spanish.

[Bossman]

First of all, I do not believe anyone here is being rude. The guys that post here are extremely knowledgeable about what they post.

Tracfones are firmware locked and will only work with a tracfone sim. So eliminate that quickly! Most world phones have an option where you can select your language of choice. Just select Chinese.

Also check ebay. However here -

Unlocked quadbands on amazon - Amazon.com: unlocked quad-band phone

Originally Posted by pwilliams89

Hey Bossman, yeah that's what I'm thinking of doing. I want to get as cheap a prepaid as possible. For example, I found a $18 Tracfone online that's quadband. I'm sure I could figure out how to unlock it too. The only thing else I need to be sure of is that it could read Chinese characters. I thought this might be a function of the SIM card (which will be Chinese) but possibly this has to do with the software of the phone? If it depends on the phone, then I might be out of luck cause I'm not sure that the Tracfone would have language capabilities besides English and Spanish.