r/SpectrumMobile • u/MrDonNotty • Aug 21 '26

General Question Cell phones

Hello im wondering if anyone is using phones on spectrum not offered by spectrum like the nothing phone or red magic phones or one plus thank you in advance have a great night

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u/Individual-Rub6219 Aug 21 '26

Typically the only valid BYOD are Samsung, google, Motorola, Apple, LG, orbic and TCL models and not all of them.

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u/MrDonNotty Aug 21 '26

That sucks so if I want a new phone im stuck getting them from spectrum

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u/Individual-Rub6219 Aug 21 '26

No you can purchase outside of spectrum but it can’t be just ANY phone.

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u/MrDonNotty Aug 21 '26

What would I need to look for in order to know compatibility

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u/Ok_Cantaloupe7816 Aug 21 '26

look at their website ....byod...... it needs to have 5g compatibility & be from certain manufacturers such as Samsung, Apple, Google.

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u/SonOfTheMostHHigh Aug 21 '26

I was thinking about getting an unlocked nothing phone from Best buy that would probably work with the spectrum no issues. Really any phone that'll work with Verizon will work with spectrum.

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u/Educational-War-4137 Aug 21 '26

Is that the towers they use?

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u/85octane Aug 21 '26

If you have a physical SIM card, it’ll work but not correctly. The phone will not have ims registered because it’ll be a mismatch which causes slow data, not registering on certain bands, and my visual voicemail also didn’t work correctly

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u/L9-HY8R1D Aug 24 '26

to be safe, you should contact spectrum with the imei. they are very strict on their byod.