The Nokia Lumia 822 Has a Big Secret

Source: Daily Mobile - February 10th, 2013 

As I was phone shopping last week I found out one the something that not a lot of people know out there. The Nokia Lumia 822 for Verizon is an unlocked GSM phone. That's right there is spot for a sim card in there and it almost doesn't matter who's card you slip in it works! A friend of mine is using his with a pre-paid carrier called Straight talk and I am using a local carrier called Immix Wireless on mine.

Why is this such good news you ask? Because this device is bargain on sites like Ebay. In fact as am writing this there is an 822 on Ebay for under 200USD delivered!  We are not talking about some old single cored low spec'd device here running Windows Phone 7.5. No, no, no this is a 1.5Ghz dual cored, 1 Gb of Ram, 16Gb of internal storage, 4.3 inch Gorilla Glass display with an 8mp camera on the back smartphone all for around 200USD contract free! This phone is a the Nokia Lumia 820's more beefier better spec'd twin brother. (My review for the Lumia 820 here.)

Which makes the real question for a lot of you out there will phone work with my carrier? The answer is that if the Lumia 822 supports your carriers bands and you have a GSM carrier it should. To make it easier I found the GSM bands the 822 works on and put them below for you.

• GSM 850
• GSM 900
• GSM 1800
• GSM 1900
• LTE 700

The other question is data speed on this device and your carrier... Again I will put that information below for you.

• HSPA+ (3G)
• EDGE/EGPRS (2G)
• FDD-LTE (4G)
• HSUPA (3G)
• GSM (2G)
• HSDPA (3G)
• LTE (4G)
• CDMA (2G)
• WCDMA (3G)
• CDMA 2000 EVDO (3G)

You will want to verify with your carrier to make sure these bands will work with your carrier BEFORE you purchase this device. If you would like more information on the Nokia Lumia 822 check out the full spec sheet here.