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["Lyman Green" <lymang AT gmail.com>]

I am hoping to visit friends in Germany and England in the next 6
months (I'm shooting for England over the last one or two weeks of
December) and I would like to be able to purchase a SIM card for use
in my Motorola RAZR v3xx.  I understand this entails me unlocking it.

Does anyone on the list have a company they trust that will not charge
me too much to have this done?

Looking on the internet I have found how to do it manually myself
(using a variety of shady software downloads) but it seems to involve
activities that may conceivably mess up my phone.  For every message
on a forum saying "wow, worked great for me" I'm seeing one "my phone
won't update/function."

According to the specs, the v3xx supports:
Bands:          GSM 850/1800/1900, WCDMA 850/1900
and further research revealed that several cellphone companies in the
UK support GSM 1800 so I believe that if I get the phone unlocked, it
should support a prepaid SIM card on that frequency.

If it proves not to be feasible to get it unlocked I'll poke around on
ebay for the cheapest GSM capable unlocked phone I can find for use
while traveling.

It looks like Nokia might be the right manufacturer for that choice -
something very simple that I would use specifically for traveling.

Any info would be appreciated!

Lyman Green

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