Cell Phone Information?which is best Verizon cell phone or Sprint cell phone.

<p><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'inherit','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; color: black; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><br /> <br /> <br /> </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: #3c3b3b; background: #EEEDEE; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">&nbsp;</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: #3c3b3b; background: #EEEDEE; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">The scoop with getting Sprint / Verizon phones to work on opposite carrier / other unbranded carrier:</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: #3c3b3b; background: #EEEDEE; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; color: #3c3b3b; background: #EEEDEE; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><br /> <span class="apple-style-span">Get the EPST/DST settings - PRL and what not out of ANY data capable phone (except blackberry, unless its a blackberry you need to take across)</span><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="apple-style-span">Find the programming code for the phone you've got, edit them to match the destination carrier. Done!</span><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="apple-style-span">NOW, heres where it gets weak sauce. Verizon &amp; Sprint will both tell you that the ESN needs to be in their database for them to activate it. Thats a big fat load. What you have to do is keep probing for intelligent life coupled with a little bit of a LIE and eventually they'll manually add the ESN to the system, which as of 2009 every CSR could do. Some Verizon phones have lock codes to prevent you from modifying or even viewing the programming, but they are typically easy to find on the internet.</span><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="apple-style-span">I've only managed to get Verizon to do this for me 2 times in 6 years, its a real pain.</span><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><span class="apple-style-span">Taking a Verizon phone to a smaller carrier like CellSouth and what not is usually a breeze as they just want your service, however there will be issues with some of those on the data side of things, depending on their setup.</span><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp; Now that you have a compatibility in your concern, you can opt for any of these network depending upon their quality favourable to your usage.&nbsp;</span></span></p>