People often say that you can use a nextel or sprint phone with boost mobiles prepaid service. It is POSSIBLE to use your Boost SIM card in a Nextel and some sprint phones, BUT after awhile your Nextel phone will begin to have issues. It may not happen right away, but although they may initially work together, your phone will begin to experience issues eventually and it is NOT RECOMMENDED to do so. And by “not recommended” I mean, do not do it if you care about the phone.
I have heard over and over that your phone will be damaged. Mixing the Boost SIM with a Nextel phone will void your warrant if and when your phone becomes messed up. Feature may disappear, your screen might stop working, your phone wont turn on. It’s probably going to happen.
If you want to use a Nextel phone, get nextel service. If you want prepaid Boost Service, get a Boost phone! Do not listen to your friend telling you that it will work! It technically can work, and it technically it doesn’t.
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5 comments so far
There is no danger using your boost sim in a nextel phone. this is crazy talk they are using the same packets you can even buy a startup kit that is made to do this very thing,
December 28th, 2007 at 10:46 am
ROTFLMAO! What a joke, do you work for Sprint? And you say you have HEARD that this is true not I have experienced it. Well I can tell you from experience that a sim card does work in other phones. Phones act up from mis-use, beatings they take from everyday use. And if you call your provider (Boost,Nextel,or Sprint) they will reluctantly give you the code needed to open the phone if its locked. I have done this several times for my self and friends. I have many nextel phones that have worked for me with boost mobile sims in them over a period of several years without issue’s. And furthermore when you submited this tip did it not say at the very top that it was required to leave your NAME? Be a shame to let anyone know who their speaking with being they have no idea what they are talking about. (Boost,Nextel,and Sprint) Want you to use their phone’s because of cost, they rip you off on the price of phones. If you pay attention the boost and nextel phones are very simular with small minor differences and major cost diffeerences.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I was doing some reading i have a nextel phone its an i850 and i was reading because i want to try out nextels service and see how the reception is. from doing some research i found that nextel and boost are almost exactly the same service wise and phone wise. i read and read to see if i could get a boost mobile sim card prepaid and use it in my cell phone and every form said something new and all were different. so i called boost mobil and they looked up my phonme for me and told the that my phone would work. i think if you have any questions just call boost mobile about compatibility with your phone. there quick and down to earth!!
1-800-453-0920
BEN
July 16th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Boost and Nextel are IDEN, they use the same towers, same network, and are simply different only in company name (Boost leases tower space FROM nextel, they are the SAME, using a boost sim in a nextel phone WILL NOT hurt your phone!).
August 31st, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Actually, it’s the Nextel sim in a boost mobile phone that many people reported having issue with. This information was commonly distributed in 2007. Nextel claimed that their sim card in a boost phone would cause failure, but not the reversal, such as in this post:
http://forums.intomobile.com/boost-mobile/5454-i-have-boost-mobile-phone-sim-card-i-wondering-if-i-can-use.html#post40822
August 31st, 2008 at 10:17 pm
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