Can I use a boostmobile simcard in a NON boostmobile phone?

I am curious. I currently have a boostmobile cell phone with a boostmobile SIM card but I was just wondering if I can by a different company phone (for example, a razr. not that it is necessarily that one) and still use my boostmobile SIM card and boostmobile service? Please explain any info on this, what I may have to do and any side effects to this. Thanks!|||Don't listen to the so-called Boost supervisor. Your sim card can be used in a non-Boost phone as long as it is and iDEN phone and it's unlocked. I used to have Nextel and have an unlocked i450 Boost Mobile phone that was used with absolutely no problems. There are actually a lot of people that use an unlocked Nextel phone with Boost Mobile sim cards. It does NOT fry your sim card, and special codes ARE available. They are based off of the IMEI and serial numbers of the phone. Boost's customer service says that as a scare tactic to get people to keep using their phones. There was actually a law passed that service providers have to allow you to unlock their phones if you want to use it with a different service. Like I said, you can use any unlocked iDEN phone with your Boost sim.|||you can use them in nextel phones. thats what i do with mine

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|||No, all phones are specifically preprogramed for their company, without knowing someone who could hack the phone system and change the software theres no way this would work.|||No. This will fry your sim chip. Once you attempt this generally when you replace the SIM in your boot phone it will request you to enter a special code. The bad part is, there is no special code. You'd have to leave the phone alone for up to two days and wait for your boost phone to say "Enter Special code now." The key words is "now." once your phone says that you have to power it off, turn it back on, and assuming you get past the "please wait connecting" screen-- normally it will not stop saying please wait connecting, meaning the card is fried-- you'll have to wait up to another hour to make calls.





Now, if we were to even assume this would work, boost mobile customer care would be unable to help you if you managed to get a chip put into the non boost mobile phone to allow it to work on our network. We don't have the ability to fix any chirp issues, or to fix error like "no service." On top of that, we cannot assure that you will be able to use off of the boost services you pay for. It's just not a wise idea.|||no