[giftplas]

Yes this is correct I have CDMA version ! What does that mean? It means you have a phone using older technology that is being phased out in many parts of the world. When I was shopping for a pay as you go phone to use while in the States I was surprised to see that CDMA was still used as much as it is in the USA. Except for rural/remote areas it is being phased out here in Canada. Still have it where I live, but not that many takers as the phones offered now are older models and the plans aren't great. I made sure to buy my USA one with a sim card.

The cheapest/easiest option for you may be to just purchase a Dominican PrePaid phone and buy from the carrier with the best service in your area of the D.R. I have an Orange phone and my boyfriend has an older Claro one. Both seem to work fine anywhere we've been. I use Orange now as it's cheaper than Claro to call Canada. No contract, just buy minutes as you need them.

Good Luck

[Alice_Medichi34]

Yes this is correct I have CDMA version ! What does that mean?

It means it will be difficult to activate here. With world phones with sim card it's pretty easy to unlock it and activate it and use both phone and data but CDMA is a bitch when it comes to unlocking and switching network. I've learned my lesson when I try to activate Verizon CDMA phone here awhile ago. I was lucky that I purchased it on a reputable website and able to return it without any problem.
Good luck with your search.

[investmentonlinev2006x]

If I may suggest, and this is just my opinion when traveling to DR, is it absolutely necessary to have the latest and 'greatest' technology as a cell phone? I agree with all our users/posters, CDMA is getting phased out slowly and surely will become extinct eventually, but is it just a fad or is there a need for smartphones in DR? For myself personally being that I only use my cell phones to make calls on the island, I just dont have the need or itch to surf the web or use data for anything out there. If anything keep it simple, buy a phone in DR one that you know will work, use it for calls and texting. Luckily for me I have a blackberry that works both here in the states and has a SIM card that works when I use CLARO or ORANGE in DR.
I too am surprised how much CDMA is still being used in the USA. Sprint and Verizon are the largest carriers of CDMA phones and I dont see them dissapearing any time soon...

[MrGunjMan_]

JDJones, what a load of BS.

I have a Galaxy SIII and it is working perfectly fine on 2 X POP mail accounts and one Hotmail.

May be BS, but I bought two Galaxy SIII from ORANGE and they ended up refunding my money because THEY couldn't get it to work either. Not one, TWO new phones.

I still have another one. Would you be so kind as to describe for me how you got it to connect to your accounts? I would certainly appreciate it.

A simple step by step, please. I'm stupid.

[RenyBontes]

What a load from a lot of posters here...

The deal is as someone mentioned above that CDMA phones normally don't use a sim card. What this means to you is you cannot activate it through Orange as they use GSM (sim cards), but you can definitely activate it with Claro or Tricom as they do support CDMA (They used to be Verizon). Unlocking your phone should be a breeze (unless it is some rare phone). There are a gazillion places in The DR that will unlock your phone for a couple of hundred pesos and will even put in some credit for you to use. You don't need to activate it with a plan. You can use prepaid cards if you so desire.

CDMA is not going anywhere any time soon in The US as Jalen mentioned. Both Verizon and Sprint (Number 1 and number 3 carriers) use it and they are not moving to GSM. AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM. Not sure about US Cellular (apparently they're CDMA as well)

JDJones is wrong, wrong, wrong about Android. If anything you have a lot more choices to set up anything including email accounts (POP, Imap, etc...)

[MrGunjMan_]

What a load from a lot of posters here...

The deal is as someone mentioned above that CDMA phones normally don't use a sim card. What this means to you is you cannot activate it through Orange as they use GSM (sim cards), but you can definitely activate it with Claro or Tricom as they do support CDMA (They used to be Verizon). Unlocking your phone should be a breeze (unless it is some rare phone). There are a gazillion places in The DR that will unlock your phone for a couple of hundred pesos and will even put in some credit for you to use. You don't need to activate it with a plan. You can use prepaid cards if you so desire.

CDMA is not going anywhere any time soon in The US as Jalen mentioned. Both Verizon and Sprint (Number 1 and number 3 carriers) use it and they are not moving to GSM. AT&T and T-Mobile use GSM. Not sure about US Cellular (apparently they're CDMA as well)

JDJones is wrong, wrong, wrong about Android. If anything you have a lot more choices to set up anything including email accounts (POP, Imap, etc...)

Let me repeat myself...

May be BS, but I bought two Galaxy SIII from ORANGE and they ended up refunding my money because THEY couldn't get it to work either. Not one, TWO new phones.

That's ORANGE techs (the guys that sell them and set them up) at their main office.

I still have another one. Would you be so kind as to describe for me how you got it to connect to your accounts? I would certainly appreciate it.

A simple step by step, please. I'm stupid.

[JANALA]

Let me repeat myself...

May be BS, but I bought two Galaxy SIII from ORANGE and they ended up refunding my money because THEY couldn't get it to work either. Not one, TWO new phones.

That's ORANGE techs (the guys that sell them and set them up) at their main office.

I still have another one. Would you be so kind as to describe for me how you got it to connect to your accounts? I would certainly appreciate it.

A simple step by step, please. I'm stupid.

JD.... That does only tell you that the person/company who sold you the phone are totally ignorent of IT if thy can't set up a POP or any other account for that matter.

This Galaxy III is my FIRST smart phone I have ever laid hands on and I had it working with anti virus, IP telephony and mail setup in less than 3 hours. I have had my phone for just 1 week today and am still learning.

I shall not write a small guide how to setup email on a Galaxy SIII as there are about 4.4 million hits on google about this matter the first 2 links are the best guides.

Step by step instructions with photos
Setup POP Email Account - Samsung Galaxy S III - Telecom New Zealand Help

Full Galaxy SIII setup of everything
Samsung Galaxy S III setup guide

Set up your phone for POP3 email
Samsung - Galaxy S III - Set up your phone for POP3 email -Vodafone-Help

[RenyBontes]

Setting up your Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, etc...is normally stupid simple in Android (basically input your user name and password and that's it as the in/out servers are usually already pre-defined). In certain cases these servers may not work (i.e. you're trying to access the server from outside The US - The default for most US sold phones) as these services usually will have a different server address in those cases. All you have to do is find that address (Google is your friend) and input it in manually (follow one of those guides posted above).

[JANALA]

Setting up your Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, etc...is normally stupid simple in Android (basically input your user name and password and that's it as the in/out servers are usually already pre-defined). In certain cases these servers may not work (i.e. you're trying to access the server from outside The US - The default for most US sold phones) as these services usually will have a different server address in those cases. All you have to do is find that address (Google is your friend) and input it in manually (follow one of those guides posted above).

Suarezn, perhaps JD's real problem is that he does not have a hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo mail account but maybe his own or someones else' domain pop3 account.
See, I have my own domain hence my own mail server. When you have this you will need to know a few things before yoiu set off in setting up POP3 and SMTP (pop receives the mail and SMTP sends the mail) So if you forexample only know your pop you will receive your mail but not be able to send anything.
This is due to that 10-15 years ago spammers started to use every man and his dogs' mail account information so that they could spam from them. ISP' then started to setup auth so that if you where on their network (i.e. their customer an had their IP adress range) you would not need to log in to their SMTP server however, when as Suarezn says you are not on their network as when you are on a smartphone and roaming or on a foreign wifi on a network in DR then you will be denied access to send emails.You will be able to receive your emails as the only information you need for that is; pop name, your user name and password which will work anywhere on any network.

Is that perhaps the core of your problem? If the SMTP is your problem then you will need the find a SMTP server name/IP address and a valid user name/password to send emails from.

If you have a yahoo mail account you can use the yahoo SMTP server to send you mail from. I am not suggesting you log in to yahoo and write you mail there and send it from there but use their SMTP server to pass your emails to their destination.

If you choose to do so then...

Yahoo! Mail SMTP server address: plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Mail SMTP user name: Your Yahoo! Mail user name
Yahoo! Mail SMTP password: Your Yahoo! Mail password
Yahoo! Mail SMTP port: 465
Yahoo! Mail SMTP TLS/SSL required: yes

which you will need in step 23 - 34 in Setup POP Email Account - Samsung Galaxy S III - Telecom New Zealand Help (the whole secret is step 29 - that is the reason why you are auth to send emails on any network)

You know what? All the above has f all to do with Android but vaild on any device that access an SMTP server out of their own network. Incl a PC, Notebook, Tab yeah even a IPad which I, by the way, installed for my mom a month ago. So this in not an Android issue but generic.

N.B
There is a brilliant document explaining all this here: What Are the Yahoo! Mail SMTP Settings? - About Email

Good luck JD

Eldanés

[JANALA]

If I may suggest, and this is just my opinion when traveling to DR, is it absolutely necessary to have the latest and 'greatest' technology as a cell phone? I agree with all our users/posters, CDMA is getting phased out slowly and surely will become extinct eventually, but is it just a fad or is there a need for smartphones in DR? For myself personally being that I only use my cell phones to make calls on the island, I just dont have the need or itch to surf the web or use data for anything out there. If anything keep it simple, buy a phone in DR one that you know will work, use it for calls and texting. Luckily for me I have a blackberry that works both here in the states and has a SIM card that works when I use CLARO or ORANGE in DR.
I too am surprised how much CDMA is still being used in the USA. Sprint and Verizon are the largest carriers of CDMA phones and I dont see them dissapearing any time soon...

Sir/Madam,

CDMA is an "americas" thing. Europe and Asia NEVER had CDMA technology. I had my GSM Ericsson mobil with me to Colombia back in 1999 and could not understand why I could not roam. Went to Comcel (the biggest operator in Colombia at that time) and asked what is gloing on. Asked if I could buy a SIM fromt hem and the lady looked at me like if I had come from a far far away planet. I realised 5 years later when Digital mobile telefony were introduced in many South American countries that they used the US version of mobiles which I at the time had no frigging idea what was.

The new Digital system was.... Traa ta trataaa traaaaaaa (trompet fanfare) GSM

GSM is NOT a Smart phone thing but basicall any phone standard a part from a few places here and there. Now, the US has finally implemented GSM but of course they had to be different so all americas use 850Mhz and 1900Mhz frequencies where as Europe and Asia use 900 and 1800. Hence most mobiles of a decent quality are quad band mobiles.

GSM-900 and GSM-1800 are used in most parts of the world: Europe, Middle East, Africa, Australia, Oceania (and most of Asia). In South and Central America the following countries use the following:

Peru – GSM-1900
Costa Rica – GSM-1800
Brazil – GSM-850, 900, 1800 and 1900
Guatemala – GSM-850, GSM-900 and 1900
El Salvador – GSM-850, GSM-900 and 1900
Venezuela – GSM-850, GSM-900 and 1900

GSM-850 and GSM-1900 are used in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, the United States and many other countries in the Americas.

GSM-850 is also sometimes called GSM-800 because this frequency range was known as the "800 MHz band" (for simplification) when it was first allocated for AMPS in the United States in 1983.
The term Cellular is sometimes used to describe the 850 MHz band, because the original analog cellular mobile communication system was allocated in this spectrum.

GSM-1900 and GSM-850 are also used in most of South and Central America, and both Ecuador and Panama use GSM-850 exclusively (Note: Since November 2008, a Panamanian operator has begun to offer GSM-1900 service). Venezuela and Brazil use GSM-850 and GSM-900/1800 mixing the European and American bands. Some countries in the Americas use GSM-900 or GSM-1800, some others use three: GSM-850/900/1900, GSM-850/1800/1900, GSM-900/1800/1900 or GSM-850/900/1800. Soon some countries will use GSM-850/900/1800/1900 MHz like the Dominican Republic, Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela.

In Brazil, the 1,900 MHz band is paired with 2,100 MHz to form the IMT-compliant 2,100 MHz band for 3G services.

The result is a mixture of usage in the Americas that requires travellers to confirm that the phones they have are compatible with the band of the networks at their destinations. Frequency compatibility problems can be avoided through the use of multi-band (tri-band or, especially, quad-band) phones.

[xjNo4zvD]

Okay I can Hook up ,with either Claro or tri whatever but I have a ph #from orange can I still keep that or do I need a new #. Thanks for all the knowledge provided I thought for sure I bought a DUD!!!!

[xjNo4zvD]

Anyone know who has a better reception ,price , or just which company is better to hook up with Claro or tricom????

[RenyBontes]

Okay I can Hook up ,with either Claro or tri whatever but I have a ph #from orange can I still keep that or do I need a new #. Thanks for all the knowledge provided I thought for sure I bought a DUD!!!!

Should be able to..."Portabilidad Numerica" or the ability to transfer your number to a different phone operator was implemented in The DR a couple of years back. If I was you though I would just get a new number (unless your Orange number is for an established business). Less hassle and will allow you to cut off those people you don't want to have your number...at least for a while. You know the "Ay papi he tratado de llamarte mucho porque tu sabes mi mama esta enferma y necesito que me "preste" algo de dinero..." type. This should work at least until you give them your new number...

BTW as a side bar it looks like Orange has upgraded their network big time (Apparently they have 4G LTE now in some areas). I've noticed a huge speed difference (Internet movil) even in Cotui, where they definitely do not have 4G, this last time I was down there. They're almost twice as expensive as Claro, but worth it IMO if you want to do anything significant on the internet.