[biga816]

I'm mainly referring to BRANDS but if you have specific phones then thats good too.

Its been hard to find this information using Google so I figured I'd ask here. If you have friends or relatives or even if you live there yourself, could you please tell me which phones get the best reception and which country you are referring to? Thx a lot.

BTW, I already know that Nokia phones are one of the best down there but what about Sony Ericsson, Samsung or LG?

I'm looking to buy an unlocked phone to use down there for a while and may be giving it to someone else to use too.

I'll mainly be in VN but will be going to the surrounding countries as well.

I appreciate any help, thx.

[Nuguya?]

To be safe just get a quadband phone..

[DKYang]

This should be in the cell phone forum.

Anyways, go to this site and click on the following countries you are going to use the phone at: http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/index.shtml.

I looked at couple of the countries and none of them use GSM 850, which I'm not surprised since USA created that band for it's own use. So, you can basically buy any type of unlocked phones out there. It can be tri-band, it doesn't need to be quad-band. Just make sure your phone uses GSM 900/1800/1900, since it seems like the SE Asian regions use only those frequencies.

[serre]

^ he's right, looking at the frequencies is important; I'm not really sure about that, sorry

I live in Brunei (near to Malaysia, Singapore and even Indonesia), we here use Sony Ericsson, Nokia and even Samsung and they are all good receptors... the Sony Ericsson phones, we even use them to call right up to UK and get a very clear voice; they have diff freq right? I use Sony Ericsson and a majority of my friends uses Motorolla and Nokia ><!! but there are still a handful who uses LG

LG phones, in my country is not very popular cos they just don't like it somehow ... but I'm not sure about VN O.o?!

that's all I can say, sorry for not being very helpful

serre.

[DKYang]

^ he's right, looking at the frequencies is important; I'm not really sure about that, sorry

I live in Brunei (near to Malaysia, Singapore and even Indonesia), we here use Sony Ericsson, Nokia and even Samsung and they are all good receptors... the Sony Ericsson phones, we even use them to call right up to UK and get a very clear voice; they have diff freq right? I use Sony Ericsson and a majority of my friends uses Motorolla and Nokia ><!! but there are still a handful who uses LG

Nope. They use 900/1800 in Europe.

[serre]

^ thanks for correcting about that, I wasn't really sure