snow banana flake
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Can anyone recommend a Bay Area store where I can see an e70 in person?
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SF Area store to see e70 at?
- Thread starter snow banana flake
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If you're in the city, go to the Inner Sunset; park as close to 19th Ave. and Irving as you can (parking's tough). Start on the northwest corner of 19th & Irving and walk west, looking to your right at the stores.
There are maybe 4 or 5 shops there that have all the HK imports from various manufacturers; they service the Chinese/Thai/Vietnamese/Filipino/etc. community so tend to carry a lot of unbranded devices with Chinese, etc. firmwares on them.
You can also go north of the park around... say 6th Ave. & Clement. Walk west on Clement and you'll find more import stores -- I'm less familiar with this area, but I've visited 3 or stores along this stretch.
There are maybe 4 or 5 shops there that have all the HK imports from various manufacturers; they service the Chinese/Thai/Vietnamese/Filipino/etc. community so tend to carry a lot of unbranded devices with Chinese, etc. firmwares on them.
You can also go north of the park around... say 6th Ave. & Clement. Walk west on Clement and you'll find more import stores -- I'm less familiar with this area, but I've visited 3 or stores along this stretch.
faithcopeland
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In the South Bay, there's Cellular Net/MobileGSM in Cupertino... they have tons of unlocked devices, mostly Chinese or Indo firmwares...
I've seen the E70, N73, N72 etc. there as dummy models and as real models.
I've seen the E70, N73, N72 etc. there as dummy models and as real models.
It depends on the E70 -- if it's an E70-1 (900/1800/1900) there will be no English-US firmware variant possible, they'll all be English-UK. The E70-2, though, is a real US phone (850/1800/1900) and will have English-US firmware variants available.
Technically (legally?), a phone is designed for a specific market, see the link in my signature "S60v3 Product Codes". The sticker under the battery has a 'CODE' that will tell you what languages are *supposed* to be on that phone; when you use Nokia's firmware upgrader (aka "NSU") it will always look for the proper upgrades.
You *can* flash a firmware from one product code onto another phone, this is what is usually referred to as 'grey market' phones. Someone got a bunch of them from some place (say, India) and reflashed them with a different firmware (say, Malaysia). When you try to upgrade the phone later with NSU, it will try and upgrade the firmware that's supposed to be on it.
NOTE: most all firmwares have English UK or US on them in addition to their other languages (Chinese, Filipino, Thai, Spanish, etc.).
Technically (legally?), a phone is designed for a specific market, see the link in my signature "S60v3 Product Codes". The sticker under the battery has a 'CODE' that will tell you what languages are *supposed* to be on that phone; when you use Nokia's firmware upgrader (aka "NSU") it will always look for the proper upgrades.
You *can* flash a firmware from one product code onto another phone, this is what is usually referred to as 'grey market' phones. Someone got a bunch of them from some place (say, India) and reflashed them with a different firmware (say, Malaysia). When you try to upgrade the phone later with NSU, it will try and upgrade the firmware that's supposed to be on it.
NOTE: most all firmwares have English UK or US on them in addition to their other languages (Chinese, Filipino, Thai, Spanish, etc.).
Have a Brain
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Thanks for the helpful information, Rivvah