As I was heading to the airport for my London flight last week, I realized I did not have my phone. Not too big of a deal since it only works on Verizon, so it's useless overseas (or on any other network - how convenient!). It's like buying a TV that only works with ABC.
The Verizon phone is a CDMA phone. That means Verizon phones only work on Verizon, Sprint phones on Sprint, etc. There is another standard called GSM which is used by Cingular, AT&T, and T-Mobile that enables you to use different phones on their networks (sort of kind of, AT&T locks the phone to the little SIM card so you can't use that SIM card on another phone - cripes).
GSM is also the big standard in Europe and in parts of Asia, so if you have a GSM phone that is Dual-band it will work in the UK. Tri-band works in Asia, and there is even Quad-band (works on the moon?). You'll pay high rates to call from the UK, but it's the same phone number and it's darn convenient.
I emailed my wife to see if my phone was lying around as my two year old daughter likes to play with it - no such luck.
However, once I got back I was goofing around on our hammock in the backyard when voila - there it was! It must have fallen out of my pcoket into the hammock in a previous goofing around session. Unfortunately it had gone through a few lawn waterings, albeit protected by the hammock - good hammock by the way.
The external display was no longer working but otherwise it worked fine. Lessons learned:
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