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thefury
Joined: Apr 24, 2002
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When I took my T68i to the service centre for the latest s/w version the engineer watched me take my SIM out and said "Ooh, that's an old SIM, it won't perform very well with this phone". I said "how?" and he said "look it just won't believe me or not".
Obviously he is a prick, but is there an element of truth in what he says? My SIM was activated in Jan2001, and I don't know of any problems that I've had.....is he full of shit? I requested a new one from my service provider and they naturally asked me why I wanted one, and I can't really answer that cos I dunno what I will gain if anything? |
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bingo
Joined: Oct 30, 2002
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There are differences between "old" SIMs and newer ones, but I cant remember what they are - something to do with power consumption I think.
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gadgetboytom
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its got something to do with the voltage they use
and the size of the memory
old sims are crap and waste the battery of newer phones
i dont know exactly
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wrecked_porsche
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Yeah, the new sims come in 32k and 64k java. U can get mobile banking and some other stuff from the 64k sim.
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thefury
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Thanks for your quick replies!
I was just speaking on the phone to someone from O2 who "put his life" on the fact that T68i has polyphonic ringing tones.
Is mine the only one that doesn't? ;o) |
Scoobydoo
Joined: Nov 01, 2002
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O2 don't seem to know their arse from their elbows when it comes to anything more technical than advising you how to switch your phone on! Unless I'm badly mistaken, T68's do not support poly-p ring tones
I kind of feel sorry for their staff as they don't seem to be trained well.
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thefury
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I agree....the one shite thing about the T68i is that the ring tones are really lame. If it had polyphonic tones it would make the phone a lot more attractive.... |
wrecked_porsche
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What a shame... Nothing can be done... :-(
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wrecked_porsche
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He bet his life right ? Guess he owes ya...
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ShibbyLicious
Joined: Jul 25, 2002
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@sanjeejva
32 and to an extent 64 k sims are not new at all
32 have been used and around for a while, my knowledge of 64k is not great but i am pretty sure theyve been around just as long
both have been in production longer
mobile banking and can be supported on todays standards and 16k SIMs so ya dont need a higher capacity one to do such spangly things
all higher SIM's offer really to the user is more sms/pbook memory etc n to developers and sp's more space for maybe a few enhanced features of their SIm toolkit
i must say though iz not ever heard of higher capacity SIM's lessening battery life?!!?
anyone else !!??!!
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gadgetboytom
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i said old sims can lessen the battery life of new phones
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Psykotik
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As far as i am aware, the only difference between 32 and 64 k sims is more phone book and message capacity. The only old sims that i am aware of are the old 5 volt credit card size ones that were used circa 1992. So i think that the bloke was talking shite
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kolokoy
Joined: May 16, 2002
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Sim cards are only different w d amount of memory they have and aditional services like mobile bnkng.1st sim card i got was n 1996 and was only capable of storing 20 entries!
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wrecked_porsche
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@Shibby, the 32k and the 64 except the memory thingy...but service providers basicly go for the 64k ones when they go 4 mobile banking cause maybe it needs more memory 4 applications and stuff...well at least here in Malaysia they do.
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wrecked_porsche
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@Shibby, gloow they are not new. But the usage of the 64k ones are far less common than the 32k ones.
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Posted: 2002-11-15 16:13
