Sep 25 2006
Phones
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.
Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 @ 08:47
No problem, any most phone & internet shop on the corner in Holland can do that for you, for e 15, or less if you can talk the price down. I had to do this because I found out my Aussie phone was still sim-locked, and flying back just to get the sim-lock taken off legally wasn’t really an option!
Buying a local sim-card is probably the best option anyway.
So now Alison has her own mobile too? If she doesn’t want it, I’m interested ;-)
By the way, what an interesting table-top / work of art!
Tuesday, 10 October, 2006 @ 17:40
Sorry, I’m afraid I’ll have to send the phone back. But I’ll wait a bit until they contact me. They might forget about it, you never know…
And I know about the sim-lock shops in the Netherlands but I’m sure we can find someone here who can do it too.