HTC Touch, Australia / Optus OK

[Guest psionara]

I have never bought a mobile from overseas before and have read some warnings about this (warranty issues / incompatibility with local networks etc). Caution increased after I emailed HTC to ask if / when they would have an Australian version (all other Asian country sites on Dopod have them listed except Oz). They responded quickly to say that mobiles could not be sold in Australia without government certification and the testing process was generally “sponsored” (ie paid for) by a network provider. All primary Australian networks are pushing their 3G offerings and not interested in GSM even though the GSM networks are far more extensive then the 3G ones. It's a bit silly really, if someone form UK buys a Touch and flys to Oz on holidays and turns it on are they going to bring the network down.

The Touch said buy me, buy me so I decided to take the risk, after all GSM is GSM (except in US?).

Anyway, took SIM (Optus, less than 2 years old) out of the old phone, dropped it in the touch and turned it on and it works perfectly. Not only that but the GPRS connection wizard has entries for Optus (and others) in Australia and this correctly configured the GPRS and other bits and that works as well. Setting up my ISP email account it had me enter my email address and asked if I wanted it to detect the configuration settings, it ran off and configured very thing and that also works. I am impressed. Still have work email, VPN , Wi-Fi etc to do.

Some I hope this encourages anyone in a similar situation.

:)

Edited June 26, 2007 by psionara

[Guest psionara]

I have never bought a mobile from overseas before and have read some warnings about this (warranty issues / incompatibility with local networks etc). Caution increased after I emailed HTC to ask if / when they would have an Australian version (all other Asian country sites on Dopod have them listed except Oz). They responded quickly to say that mobiles could not be sold in Australia without government certification and the testing process was generally “sponsored” (ie paid for) by a network provider. All primary Australian networks are pushing their 3G offerings and not interested in GSM even though the GSM networks are far more extensive then the 3G ones. It's a bit silly really, if someone form UK buys a Touch and flys to Oz on holidays and turns it on are they going to bring the network down.

The Touch said buy me, buy me so I decided to take the risk, after all GSM is GSM (except in US?).

Anyway, took SIM (Optus, less than 2 years old) out of the old phone, dropped it in the touch and turned it on and it works perfectly. Not only that but the GPRS connection wizard has entries for Optus (and others) in Australia and this correctly configured the GPRS and other bits and that works as well. Setting up my ISP email account it had me enter my email address and asked if I wanted it to detect the configuration settings, it ran off and configured very thing and that also works. I am impressed. Still have work email, VPN , Wi-Fi etc to do.

Some I hope this encourages anyone in a similar situation.

:)

Now available in Australia

http://www.smh.com.au/news/phones--pdas/new-touch-mobile-is-no-iphone-copycat/2007/07/04/1183351220390.html

It is a great phone.

[Guest fijiguy]

Hi,

I bought a HTC S710 from the UK too and swapping sim card worked fine.

However I'm not able to use any of the GPRS features. The S710 didn't come with any GPRS settings for Australia/Optus.

I believe HTC Touch and S710 both use Windows Mobile 6.

Would you be able to check the GPRS connection settings (under Settings) and MMS settings (under Messaging) on your phone and post them here, or e-mail to me?

Thanks.

[Guest psionara]

Hi,

I bought a HTC S710 from the UK too and swapping sim card worked fine.

However I'm not able to use any of the GPRS features. The S710 didn't come with any GPRS settings for Australia/Optus.

I believe HTC Touch and S710 both use Windows Mobile 6.

Would you be able to check the GPRS connection settings (under Settings) and MMS settings (under Messaging) on your phone and post them here, or e-mail to me?

Thanks.

It isn’t obvious (to me) where all the settings are, the Touch has a Network Connection Wizard which asks via dropdown lists for a country and network provider (it has Australia and various Australian providers), it then sets all the connection settings according to the selections – magic ?

Digging around this is what I found but there might be more hidden away somewhere

GPRS Settings

There is only one setting, PAP authentication (set) & CHAP authentication (not set)

MMS Settings (under options when you create a new MMS in Messaging)

Server Tab

Server Name : Optus MMS

Gateway : 61.88.190.10

Port : 8070

Server Address : http://mmsc.optus.com.au:8002

Connect via : Optus MMS Settings (this is a dropdown list with Optus MMS Settings, Optus WAP Settings, Optus Internet Settings, some others and the standard My ISP / Work, only the last ones visible in the “manage connections”

WAP Version : WAP 2.0

Hope these help