TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: When Phones Go Bad

Re: When Phones Go Bad

David Clayton (dcstar@XYZ.myrealbox.com)
Tue, 02 Nov 2004 15:21:31 +1100

Danny Burstein <dannyb@panix.com> contributed the following:

> In <telecom23.523.1@telecom-digest.org> Marcus Didius Falco <falco_marcus_didius@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> [ snip ]

>> For most cell phone users, replacing a phone that's gone bad comes
>> with an added cost in time and aggravation: pecking away at the keys
>> of the new phone to reconstruct a mobile address book of often-used
>> names and numbers.

> Hence one of the beauties of the SIMcard method used on GSM (and a
> handful of other) phones. All the info can be stored in the thumbnail
> sized chip, and all you need to do is move it from the old phone to
> the new one.

And even better, you frequently "back up" your SIM card data to a PC,
so in the event of losing the phone (with the SIM card in it), you can
restore all of your valuable contact info into the replacement SIM
card.

Regards,

David Clayton, e-mail: dcstar@XYZ.myrealbox.com
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
(Remove the "XYZ." to reply)

Dilbert's words of wisdom #18: Never argue with an idiot. They drag
you down to their level then beat you with experience.

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