friedpiggy
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Ok so I'm looking for a place to get me a Huawei E220. I know Telkom has them for R1500 odd but is there anywhere thats cheaper? Oh yes, Im in the Durban area.
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friedpiggy
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which 7.2 sticks? was looking at the e220 as it is firmware upgradeable to 7.2 and is the cheapest one i seen that is a decent make
friedpiggy
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did a google on it. do you mean the E180/k3520 ones? those look good and they about R200 cheaper but only place i found is a place in durban sells them with no warranty only a guarantee that they working on arrival and Im not so keen on that concept.
friedpiggy
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OK for anyone interested in one of these, the k3520 looks nice. looks like a memory stick, has a micro sd slot supporting up to a 4gb card so it can double as a memory stick i suppose.
Cheapest place I found one is at Nivo (www.nivo.co.za) R1275
Cheapest place I found one is at Nivo (www.nivo.co.za) R1275
friedpiggy
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Nope wasnt aware of that at all. Not too sure how they would go about that (not a hardware person) and from all the reports I have read, a lot of people have posted in this section stating how they used an old mtn e220 and are connecting fine.
So from what I can tell, if I went and got me a k3520 from nivo and got me a telkom sim then I can happily go ahead and connect since from all I know it is the device itself that gets network locked not the network that is locked to specific devices.
On a side note, I would frikken hate that job. Typing in device ID's into the network to mark them as allowed.
So from what I can tell, if I went and got me a k3520 from nivo and got me a telkom sim then I can happily go ahead and connect since from all I know it is the device itself that gets network locked not the network that is locked to specific devices.
On a side note, I would frikken hate that job. Typing in device ID's into the network to mark them as allowed.
eltherza
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When I got mine [during the trial] I asked if it was network locked, and they say it isn't network locked for the device nor the "network device locked". I got the telkom one so I'm not sure either way.
Well I have been using an MTN E270 on Telkom 3G for the last 6 months.