Daily Archives: Monday, 25 September, 2006

In the continuing phone saga some new developments. After I registered my phone with the wireless phone company they told me my phone was already registered. I thought that was very strange since I got it out of the shrink-wrapped package, but whatever. A few hours later they called me back: “We’re going to send you a new phone. We’re afraid someone has tampered with your phone.”

So now I have two phones.

Fortunately the delivery this time was less of a hassle since they delivered it when I had a day off. To my surprise the new phone is the unbranded version of this model phone, costing twice as much if you don’t have a contract. It also doesn’t have as many standard pictures on it that I can’t delete, but still a couple of them. I don’t understand why they put stupid animations on phones and lock them so they take up space and clog the menus.

Unfortunately I found out that I can’t use either of these phones when I’m in the Netherlands, since the phone company doesn’t offer roaming there for Pay-As-You-Go customers. So I guess I’ll have to hack the phone so I can unlock it and put a Dutch SIM-card in it. But I’ll deal with that later.

For some reason I can’t upload pictures to my server. This is not working for a couple of days. Will resume logloging when I have fixed it.

[Update October 5: it appears to have something to do with our router, because here in Winnipeg everything works perfect.]