Can unlocked cell phones be used by any carrier?

The phones you mentioned above are CDMA phones, which do not use SIM cards, so it is much more difficult to use them as world phones unless Verizon makes specific version to be used in other countries. If I were you I would definitely wait for the Desire to come to Telus, that is an awesome phone.

@JOE
thanks for reply
I am currently contacting with someone who claim to sell smartphones
She told me If I flashed them into my CDMA network I will be able to use any CDMA phone…
can this be true??

@joon1986 Flash them? I’m not sure what she is talking about. It’s a matter of hardware, not software, so I’m not sure it would be as easy as “flashing” (whatever that means).

@JOE
yeah I had no clue what “flashing” means either until search the term on google…apparently it is not really unlocking process..it is more like software update provided by phone manufacturers to fix glitches on the phones

Flashing is a process that erases and replaces the internal read-only memory of the phone with a ROM file from another phone like it (e.g, from another carrier or country). It’s not exactly an easy process and sometimes requires software that isn’t quite legally kosher to obtain and certainly not as easy as the guy made it sound as swapping the SIMs on GSM handsets.

@sinscriven…I am little confused ..so it is hard but not impossibly to unlock the phone using flashing??