Originally Posted by
Dubai Stu
You can find cheap quadband phones on Amazon. If you are visiting multiple countries, you might be interested in a roaming SIM which is a prepaid SIM which is marketed based on cheap roaming rates rather than on great rates for a particular country. The choices include eKit, TravelSIM, Maxroam, Truphone, and others. Look at the countries you are visiting and compare rates.
The problem with this SIMs is that they never offer good rates compared to local prepaids. It might be good if you are only planning to stay for a day or two, but if you want to make frequent calls or use mobile Internet, local prepaid for each country is a way to go.
Also, cheap Chinese cellphone models might be an answer, they even offer quad-sim quad-band models. There is whole bunch of them on DealExtreme.