Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? 259
First time accepted submitter Viv Savage (3679171) writes "I live in the U.S. but my daughter will be attending college overseas next year (Scotland specifically). I need to purchase a new phone for her and I'm curious what the Slashdot community would recommend. I understand that a GSM world phone supporting 850/900/1800/1900 MHz frequencies would give her the best voice support. There doesn't appear to be a solution for getting high-speed data (i.e., 4G) here and abroad with one phone. Have any worldly Slashdotters figured this out?"
Re:Nexus 4? (Score:4, Funny)
I didn't claim 4G/LTE. I claimed it worked fine. No worse than in the US which is supposed to offer 4G, but forgets to actually attach it to the internet by anything faster than a damp piece of string.
Yes (Score:0, Funny)
And if she gets an iPhone, she will be enjoying a much better life. (http://apple-beta.slashdot.org/story/14/06/03/1419220/apple-says-many-users-bought-an-android-phone-by-mistake)
Re: Nexus 4? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Scotland? (Score:4, Funny)
They have cell phone shops too. She should buy herself a cell phone in Scotland.
On her first day in a strange country, she's supposed to negotiate a complicated, expensive purchase in a foreign language?
Oxford English to American Dictionary (Score:4, Funny)
I mean some may talk funny, but since when does that count as a "foreign language"?
Don't go blaming us Brits for treating American as a foreign language. I was in a Chicago book store several years ago and was amused to see that they had the Oxford English Dictionary on the shelves of the foreign language section.