No 3G on Orange Universal?

[shriek]

Hi, I'm looking for a 2nd hand Universal and so I found a guy selling it for what I find a very good price... but the catch is that he says it won't be able to connect to 3G networks:

these are refurbished and we made sure that phone will work with all networks (except 3G).

What I wanted to ask is: how could this be possible? how would it be able to connect to standard 2G networks and not 3G? would it be a software issue? Would I be able to fix that?

[Midget_1990]

hmm, i dont think its possible that the 3g is broken but the 2g isnt, as afaik they are the same chip. however it is common knowledge that universals wont work with the phone operator '3' (unless you have a very old sim card) o perhaps this is where the confusion is, best bet is to ask the seller.

Hope this was of some help

[GaZ]

however it is common knowledge that universals wont work with the phone operator '3'

Is that so? ;)

http://www.three.co.uk/personal/handsets_/handset_overview.omp?subleft=1&header=PAYMON&cid=1151677768856

[shriek]

hmm, i dont think its possible that the 3g is broken but the 2g isnt, as afaik they are the same chip. however it is common knowledge that universals wont work with the phone operator '3' (unless you have a very old sim card) o perhaps this is where the confusion is, best bet is to ask the seller.

Hope this was of some help

Thanks.... That's what I thought... Since he is a UK seller he is probabily talking about UK Operators... here in Portugal we don't have problems with using unlocked phones bought from other operators.. even though Vodafone do use newer CompV2 SIM cards (though I still have a old CompV1)

[Midget_1990]

Is that so? ;)

http://www.three.co.uk/personal/handsets_/handset_overview.omp?subleft=1&header=PAYMON&cid=1151677768856

I must have been misinformed, i was under the impression that 3 used different sim-cards and so couldnt be compatable with non-3 phones.