Canadians! Who's got their 950 XL?

[vincentwansink]

Ya, I ran into the out of stock issue also, but keep checking several times a day. I only had to wait a day before they were in stock again.

You said you had to get your sim "cut"? What do you mean by that?

 

[Iain_S]

I have a Bell sim as my second sim. Bell is essentially the same network as Telus so I think that may be the problem. I will find someone else who has a Rogers sim that I can try in the phone.

I'm pretty sure Bell 2G does not have support on the 950's, so that probably is the problem, Rogers is the only Canadian carrier I believe that will work as the 2nd sim running 2G on these phones.

 

[Steve Gauvin]

I think everyone got dual SIM phones, but who cares, think of it as an extra feature!

And as for making the icon's disappear, I think I read on another thread you can link the phone and messaging apps so it only shows one.

The dual sim have a cat4 lte for 150 mpbs rather than cat6 lte 300 mbps.

 

[anon(8966963)]

I received the free Continuum Dock via Fedex....

 

[Flavio76]

Ok, here is my situation... The XL saga...

I will be in Winnipeg on 15dec.
I do not live in Canada.
Online of almost impossible at Microsoft, since is always sold out.
Do I have any other chance of buying? I will stay 12 day in PEG.

 

[DigitalZ]

I'm pretty sure Bell 2G does not have support on the 950's, so that probably is the problem, Rogers is the only Canadian carrier I believe that will work as the 2nd sim running 2G on these phones.

I can confirm that as true now. I borrowed a Rogers sim from someone at work, plugged it in and fired up the phone and everything worked as expected. Calls came in on both sim's.

 

[vincentwansink]

Ok, here is my situation... The XL saga...

I will be in Winnipeg on 15dec.
I do not live in Canada.
Online of almost impossible at Microsoft, since is always sold out.
Do I have any other chance of buying? I will stay 12 day in PEG.

No MS store in the peg so you'll have to drive from Winnipeg to St.Paul Minnesota. Only an eight hour drive. Just be sure to call ahead.

 

[vincentwansink]

The dual sim have a cat4 lte for 150 mpbs rather than cat6 lte 300 mbps.

Does anybody really get more than 150 Mbps?

 

[Flavio76]

No MS store in the peg so you'll have to drive from Winnipeg to St.Paul Minnesota. Only an eight hour drive. Just be sure to call ahead.

Not easy to be a fan....Will try to contact a store to see if they ship...

 

[vincentwansink]

Not easy to be a fan....Will try to contact a store to see if they ship...

Ya, unfortunately these phones are hard to get. If you do get your hands on one however you will love it! They do of course ship for free from microsoftstore.ca but they're currently out of stock.

 

[beman39]

BTW just a little update, I went with Koodo since they had the black Friday deal and popped in the Koodo sim and now my MMS is working perfectly on my L1520... Videotron needs to get their **** together, shoddy LTE signals and MMS problems and dropped calls it's any wonder they have customers

 

[anon(8966963)]

Anyone notice that you can't use two sims working on a different network frequency? One of the sims won't have reception example Koodo and Wind won't work

 

[vincentwansink]

Anyone notice that you can't use two sims working on a different network frequency? One of the sims won't have reception example Koodo and Wind won't work

Oh. That's disappointing. I was planning to get a second sim from Wind. My first is with Telus.

 

[anon(8966963)]

Oh. That's disappointing. I was planning to get a second sim from Wind. My first is with Telus.

Try it out yourself too... Just test it at the Wind store

 

[vincentwansink]

Try it out yourself too... Just test it at the Wind store

Ya, I'll still try it just to see if I have a different experience than you. I'll probably go this weekend.

 

[DigitalZ]

Anyone notice that you can't use two sims working on a different network frequency? One of the sims won't have reception example Koodo and Wind won't work

It depends on the combination of networks. Telus and Bell for instance don't work together but Telus or Bell paired with Rogers works fine if the Telus or Bell sim is set as the one with data.

 

[anon(8966963)]

It depends on the combination of networks. Telus and Bell for instance don't work together but Telus or Bell paired with Rogers works fine if the Telus or Bell sim is set as the one with data.

I mean like telus 850 MHz and 1900 MHz frequencies while Wind network uses 1700/2100 MHz

 

[mythos13]

My 950 XL order is still in the "In Process" stage since Nov 17

 

[david90531]

My dock still says "Back-Ordered". Seems like I have quite a long wait ahead before I could try continuum

 

[Flavio76]

Any Canadian want to sell their Xl? ☺ Next week I will be in Winnipeg, and still could not order mine....i will have to wait months in my country to grab one XL .....