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Originally Posted by Shaggy
I don't know what a UMTS card is, but they've said that it doesn't support SIM cards (same thing?). I assume the 3G will not be supported outside of the US. They tried to negotiate with European carriers, but were not successful.
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On the dr800sg manual, it does show a sim card slot in the battery compartment. In the US version, verizon is the carrier and thus the 3g radio will be configured for cdma and the sim slot is not used. To connect to a gsm carrier, one would need to re-configure the 3g radio for gsm and to enable the sim slot. The qualcomm gobi 3g radio in the dr800sg can support both cdma and gsm 3g.
Now if irex decides to switch from verizon to say at&t, they would just need to send out sim cards and a software update, unlike kindle users who had to buy a new device to get international coverage.
Of course, all of the above is in theory...
The dr800s manual doesn't show a sim slot. It would be interesting if the slot is still there or if the dr800s is really a physically different device from the dr800sg. We will need a teardown to see if the 3g radio module has been removed as well.