One thing to note about the Telus Treo 650. Telus is a CDMA carrier and unlike GSM, can not be unlocked in such as way as you can with a GSM phone, where you can unlock the SIM lock on the phone and get another SIM card from any GSM carrier in the world and use it. CDMA doesn't have SIM cards and as far as I know, no CDMA carrier in North America will allow you to use a foreign carrier CDMA phone (eg. Canada CDMA phone on a US carrier) on their network. So you will have to resort to paying for the hefty roaming charges charged by your home carrier.
So, I'd suggest getting a GSM Treo 650 phone instead of a CDMA phone and get it unlocked so that you can then easily purchase a SIM card and use it anywhere in the world.
I was recently visiting HK and bought my never locked GSM Treo 650 phone there and was able to buy a prepaid SIM card with minutes bundled in it so that I could use it right away. I'm not sure if other places in the world offer that but I'm sure that some places will offer something similar. In Canada, I think you have to get the SIM card and then get a prepaid phone card in order to use it. There are two main carriers Rogers and Fido (actually Fido is now really Rogers since they bought them out).
As for prepaid, I doubt that you can access the web via GPRS, although for Rogers in Canada, I think you can. I know that with Smartone in HK that that feature was disabled.
I'd suggest checking out the local GSM carriers for the country where you will be visiting for more info. |