[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] richardbroder:
Yep. The Canadian version does suit our needs here in Brazil, which is nice to know. Unfortunately, though, getting a Canadian mobile phone here in Brazil is considerably harder than getting a American mobile phone, since there are very little people working with Canada-Brazil importations, but there are tons of thousands of people who work in a USA-Brazil bridge. That's only natural, since almost everything, in this sense, can be found in the USA, makes no sense to look for Canada. Specially if you consider that getting things from Canada, for us over here, is not only more expensive, it also takes longer...

And if you pay a little more attention, our friend did mention that the Vibrant he found was T-Mobile's Vibrant... not Bell's Vibrant.

Thanks for the info.

If you payed only a little more attention, you would have noticed our friend did mention that the Vibrant he found was T-Mobile's Vibrant... not Bell's Vibrant. As I stated above, that's only natural, since products imported from USA do show up over here with (a lot) more frequency than products from Canada. It's ok though, since you're not actually supposed to know that unless you live here.

Well yeah, I'm sorry to state that, I could have simply said "avoid getting the AMERICAN variants", but hey, come to think about it, Brazil is also in America... that wouldn't make much sense now, would it?

You are right, though. I totally forgot that, by stating "forget the north american variants", I potentially excluded both the Canadian and even the Mexican versions of whatever-variants-of-Galaxy-S you might find in these two non-USA north-american countries. Come to think about it, having ignored Mexico, for me, is even more absurd than having ignored Canada! My phone operator is called Claro (it has the best 3G coverage in the area I live in), and its owner happens to be a Mexican folk called Carlos Slim... which also happens to be worlds biggest billionaire, jeesh, I'm just so happy he didn't read this thread!

From now on, "USA-variants" it is. So no more conflicts with Canada and with my operator-owner buddy Carlos Slim.... everybody stays happy!

AT&T Captivate? Yeah, it might work @ 850/2100, but that wouldn't change the fact that it would be really unwise to acquire one to use in Brazilian networks. I'm not sure you read through the hole thread, but there is the Brazilian i9000, which is also 850/2100Mhz, so that would be definitely better over a Captivate. And, repeating my words, if you have 2100Mhz coverage (and 2100Mhz is widespread in Brazil), there's no sense in going after a phone with 850Mhz support.

Sure, the Canadian version would be really nice to have, but Canadian phones aren't really very accessible over here, I guess I've already been over this point. Our friend did mention he had access to both the GSM USA-variants, none of which would really be recommended, not even the glorious 850/2100Mhz AT&T firmware-locked version - its just easier to get a Brazilian Galaxy S if 850Mhz support is a must...or a Canadian version, if you happen to have some friend going to visit Canada anytime soon (can't count on that option, though).