Posted by Sammy_boy
After reading the story about someone in Sweden finding a P1i in the street, was just wondering if anyone else has found a phone in the street, on the bus, in a taxi... in fact anywhere!
A friend of mine recently found a W810i, it had been blocked but otherwise in full working order, she's decided to keep it.... I've never found a phone, not even a battered old 3310!
So, what have you found or indeed lost - and what did you do with it - did you hand it in, or decide to keep it for yourself, or did you get it back again if you lost it? And did it get blocked? I'm just curious really!
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Posted by paul101
i found a w550i once, phoned up the wee girls mum and the poor little girl was glad to get it back
Posted by tranced
i found a nokia 3300
once and gave it back to the guy(he forgot it in a phone booth).
Posted by Seanyb2
I have never found a phone but i did honestly once a good few years back now 150 quid rolled up in paper in a Birmingham street. Could not believe what i was seeing i looked all around me but it was quiet. It was raining so i had to dry it out. WOW. Could have put it towards a new phone. Lol.
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Posted by A L 3 X
my brother lost his w810i and rang up a taxi company described it, they sed yer we got it and he came to collect, it was a k800i on 3 when they first came out, so he sed yer thts mine and went, it got blocked l8er and then he got his w810i back when a diff taxi company rung the phone number "home" in his contacts
Posted by chrisfirst
This whole "write like this, because it's cool and funky, but actualy it's slower then normal" thing, giving me headache! I couldn't even put the sentences together... Why, can't people write these days?
Posted by Trev1982
my mate is a taxi driver and over xxmas he collected 28 phones out the back of his cab and borrowed chargers to keep them on in case they rang and only 6 was collected from him, i would be gutted if i lost my phone
Posted by paul101
36 phones in the back of a cab
Posted by Trev1982
not in the same night lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by *Jojo*
Well this is quite impossible for some here . . I mean specially to those who lives in POOR-countries. Because I'm sure (for some) before you sees it, someone else already did
If we are to include DUMMY-fones here . . . well, I've seen many !
Posted by paul101
yeah it is allot to find over christmas, some will never find a phone in their lifes
Posted by goldenface
I found a phone on a train once and rang someone on the phone who turned out to be her nan.
She was glad to get it back
Posted by Twometre
2 que mates; When's a person considered to b lucky? Do you think keeping it is as good as stealing.
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Posted by maggflodd
i used to run a backpackers hostel for 6 yrs... Found on average 2 phones a week!!! And not once did anyone bother to check back if we found it!!! That included a nokia 9500
the local cops are sorted for life!!!
Posted by Ranjith
i lost my p800 in taxi once...never got it bk though...but i did find a WLAN PCI Modem on the floor....BRAND NEW....searched the owner in the whole building but din find any so i took it!
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Posted by SaLiH
I've found a phone in a bus, and I've returned it. It was some cheap low-end Motorola, I think it was this one Motorola C113.
Posted by woz@
That`s gonna take guts to hold ya hands up and admit it`s their phone.LOL But I have to admit having lost a few phones myself,it`s what`s inside that`s important!!!
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Posted by Fritz24
I sure have. Was walking to my mum's house one day and saw a car drive past then heard a strange crunching noise. Looked on the road and saw a battered looking Nokia (can't remember the model) which I was amazed to see still working.
Being the honest chap I am I phoned the last number that had called it and the person (a friend of the owner) was very grateful that I'd done so. The owner had left the phone on their car roof and driven off!
Arranged to meet the owner and returned the phone.
Posted by SE4NICK
I found a nokia just the other day on da bus. It was locked to optus and was read with no colour display OMG and i thought why the hell would i want this phone why would the owner want this phone. any way i did the right thing and said "Hey Has Any One Lost A Phone" Then a little school girl said "Oh its mine can i have it back please". I belived her and handed her the phone.
The End lol
Posted by Sammy_boy
Nice to see there are still a lot of honest people out there, most of you sound like you returned the phones you found!
Though I'd be seriously tempted to keep it (depending on what phone it was), I guess I'd still hand it in/return it to it's rightful owner!
Posted by scottt
Never found one myself.
Though i would probably hand it in whatever the situation, mainly because i remember losing my phone a few years back. Was a Siemens MT50 and i had been on my bike, must of fallen out of my hoodie pocket, did'nt realise till i was home. Few hours later got a call and it was the local police station, someone had handed it in
So i'd like to think i'd do the same.
Posted by Sammy_boy
Good point Scottt, a view from the 'other' side, having lost a phone.
Think I should ask that too - has anyone lost a phone - and did you get it back again, like Scottt?
Posted by Tiny
Lost a nokia 7250 once never got it back so i just blocked it. Was gutted because I'd got it for christmas and I lost it on the second day back from the holidays
Posted by gaming_guy
when i was in an unlocking shop near me to get my old k700i unlocked, a bloke walked in with a 6230 (it was in a bad state eg cracked lcd, battered casing and i think it just about turned on!
) and wanted it unlocked. by the looks and sound of it, it looked like he had just found it
the shop couldn't unlock my k700i without doing it via testpoint, so i went to another shop up the road and they did it via cable. i bet they could of done the 6230 if it wasnt blocked!
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Posted by amnesia
found 4 phones in my life, returned 3 to their rightful owners
the other one nobody claimed and I tried to hand it in to the shop but they said they didn't want responsibility.
(kept it but it was faulty since it would switch off now and then).
It was the Nokia Kit Kat phone.
Gave it to a friend who needed it.
Posted by SE4NICK
Yet another found and returned phone by myself. 'Twas a school childs Sagem My C4
Posted by clauf
oh I lost mine because it fell out of my pocket as the bus was climbing up the hill. I never got mine back either, but thank god I was using my old Samsung Cell Phone (so old I don't even know the model number) as my Z610i was charging HAHA
I found a Japanese NttDoCoMo phone before on the bus. Wanted to use it, but I couldn't change the language, didn't have the charger, no company who made it, AND it didn't have a SIM card slot. I returned it to the Lost and Found in the end.
Posted by umerhayat
I never found a mobile this way.If i find. I will try to return it to the owner
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