Old phone minus sim card

corblimey

I recently upgraded my phone and was informed that I could continue to use my old Nokia 3120 without a sim card. There's a few features on it that are missing from my new phone (countdown for one), so it would have been handy to have this option. But when I turn on my phone, it tells me to insert a sim card, and all I can is press numbers (to dial 999, I assume). I can't access the menu at all. Is there a way around this, or would I be better off trying to find an old sim card at home?

seamus

Yeah, any SIM will do, even a barred/deactivated one. There are few devices that will allow you to do anything without a SIM in them.

corblimey

Yeah, that's what I thought. The muppet in the O2 shop said differently, but then what would you expect from a strategically shaved chimp?

No offense to strategically shaved chimps

TerrorFirmer

Most of the newer Symbian phones from the 6630 upwards let you use the phone without a sim. I think the old 3650 has an offline option also in some shape or form. Fierce handy at times for tranferring files via bluetooth from one phone to another.

Sam Vimes

a new sim card costs 10 euro and has 10 euro credit on it

hobie

I purchased a new sim card for my old Voda, to keep it as a spare RTG phone .... sim cost me 10.00 euro ... I got 10.00 euro credit and the Voda shop man said I would get another 70.00 credit over the next 7 months :eek:

all for 10.00 euro !!! :rolleyes:

well that's what he told me ..... even he was a bit suprised

Pythia

corblimey wrote:

I recently upgraded my phone and was informed that I could continue to use my old Nokia 3120 without a sim card. There's a few features on it that are missing from my new phone (countdown for one), so it would have been handy to have this option. But when I turn on my phone, it tells me to insert a sim card, and all I can is press numbers (to dial 999, I assume). I can't access the menu at all. Is there a way around this, or would I be better off trying to find an old sim card at home?

Is the 3120 unlocked?

Sam Vimes

hobie wrote:

I purchased a new sim card for my old Voda, to keep it as a spare RTG phone .... sim cost me 10.00 euro ... I got 10.00 euro credit and the Voda shop man said I would get another 70.00 credit over the next 7 months :eek:

all for 10.00 euro !!! :rolleyes:

well that's what he told me ..... even he was a bit suprised

eh.. he's wrong. i'm not 100% sure on voda sim cards but with the others you get 30 with a sim pack

hobie

eh.. he's wrong. i'm not 100% sure on voda sim cards but with the others you get 30 with a sim pack
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I know .... it sounded too good to be true to me too, but he (the Voda man) did say even he was surprised ...... to be honest for a 10.00 euro sim card I was surprised to get anything so it will be interesting to see what credit they add over the coming months .....

Boards.ie will be the first to get any news ......

Random

You should ring Voda support and have them confirm for you hobie ....

As for "with the others you get 30 with a sim pack" ... O2 give you 25 as I was so corrected last week

Sam Vimes

ciaranfo wrote:

You should ring Voda support and have them confirm for you hobie ....

As for "with the others you get 30 with a sim pack" ... O2 give you 25 as I was so corrected last week

they used to give 30. i just noticed on a sim pack yesterday that it now says "e5 has been creditted to your account" where it used to say 10

chrislad

Meteor give you 50 (10 a month when you top up by 10)